The County of Holstein-Pinneberg (), also known as the County of Schauenburg and Holstein-Pinneberg (), was a small territory which existed from 1290 until 1640, centred around

Pinneberg Pinneberg (; Northern Low Saxon: ''Pinnbarg'') is a town in the federal state of Schleswig-Holstein in northern Germany. It is the capital of the district of Pinneberg and has a population of about 43,500 inhabitants. Pinneberg is located 18&nb ...

in modern-day

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Rise and fall of the county

Holstein-Pinneberg was one of the territories partitioned from the County of

Holstein-Itzehoe Holstein-Itzehoe was a county that was formed from Schauenburg and Holstein by the division of Holstein between Gerhard and John in 1261. Gerhard of Holstein-Itzehoe was the only regent. After his death in 1290 Holstein-Itzehoe was divided up be ...

(the others being

Holstein-Rendsburg Holstein-Rendsburg is the name of a county that existed from 1290 to 1459, ruled by a line of the Schauenburg family. Rise and fall of the county The Schauenburgs had ruled in Holstein since 1110/1111. In 1290, when Count Gerhard I of Holstei ...

and

Holstein-Plön Holstein-Plön was the name of a county ruled by the House of Schauenburg that ruled in Holstein and Stormarn from 1110/11. The county emerged before 1295 when the County of Holstein-Itzehoe was partitioned after the death of Count Gerhard I of ...

) following the death of

Gerhard I Gerard I may refer to: * Gerard I, Count of Guelders Gerard I, Count of Guelders (c. 1060 – 8 March 1129) was Count of Guelders (Gelre in Dutch). He was the son of Theodoric of Wassenberg. He may have been married to Clementia of Aquitaine, a ...

. This resulted in the Pinneberg line of the

Counts of Schauenburg and Holstein The Counts of Schauenburg and Holstein were titles of the Frankish Empire. The dynastic family came from the County of Schauenburg near Rinteln (district Schaumburg) on the Weser in Germany. Together with its ancestral possessions in Bückebu ...

, who were called Holstein-Pinneberg or Holstein-Schauenburg. The Schauenburgs (later, on the Weser, called the Schaumburgs) ruled over the

County of Schaumburg The County of Schaumburg (german: link=no, Grafschaft Schaumburg), until ca. 1485 known as Schauenburg, was a state of the Holy Roman Empire, located in the present German state of Lower Saxony. Its territory was more or less congruent with ...

(which became a principality in 1620) and over Holstein-Pinneberg. In 1375, Prince-Archbishop Albert II of Bremen mortgaged the Haseldorfer Marsh to Adolphus VII. The prince-archbishop of Bremen later failed to redeem the mortgage, and the Haseldorfer Marsh has been part of Holstein ever since. Whereas in 1537

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introduced the

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in all his four realms, Denmark,

Duchy of Holstein The Duchy of Holstein (german: Herzogtum Holstein, da, Hertugdømmet Holsten) was the northernmost state of the Holy Roman Empire, located in the present German state of Schleswig-Holstein. It originated when King Christian I of Denmark had hi ...

, Norway and

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, Holstein-Pinneberg remained Catholic until 1559. After the Schaumburgs died out in 1640 (the other lines in Holstein had already died out by 1459) the County of Schaumburg was divided and the County of Holstein-Pinneberg was absorbed into what was now the Duchy of Holstein (formerly the County of

). In 1650, the County of Rantzau was created from the northern third of the territory.

Counts of Holstein-Pinneberg

The following counts ruled over Schaumburg and Holstein-Pinneberg: *1290–1315 Adolphus VI (1256 – 1315) *1315–1354 Adolphus VII *1354–1370 Adolphus VIII *1370–1404

Otto I Otto I (23 November 912 – 7 May 973), traditionally known as Otto the Great (german: Otto der Große, it, Ottone il Grande), was East Frankish king from 936 and Holy Roman Emperor from 962 until his death in 973. He was the oldest son of He ...

*1404–1426 Adolphus IX *1426–1464

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(1400 – 1464) *1464–1474 Adolphus X (1419 – 1474) *1474–1492 Eric (1420 – 1492) *1492–1510

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(1426 – 1510) *1510–1526

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(1439 – 1526), married Sophia, daughter of

John V, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg John V of Saxe-Lauenburg (also numbered John IV; 18 July 1439 – 15 August 1507) was the eldest son of Duke Bernard II of Saxe-Lauenburg and Adelheid of Pomerania-Stolp (1410 – after 1445), daughter of Duke Bogislaus VIII of Pomerania-Stolp. ...

*1526–1527 John IV (1449 – 1527) *1527–1531 Jobst I (1483 – 1531) *1531–1560

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*1531–1581 Jobst II *1533–1576

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(1517 – 1576), Prince-Bishop of

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1531–1537 as Otto III *1576–1601 Adolphus XI (1547 – 1601) *1601–1622 Ernst (1569 – 1622) *1622–1635 Jobst Herman (1593 – 1635) *1635–1640 Otto V (1616 – 1640) {{authority control Counties of the Holy Roman Empire

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