Henry I, Count of Holstein-Rendsburg (1258–1304) was the first Count of

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Life

He was the son of

Gerhard I, Count of Holstein-Itzehoe Gerhard I, Count of Holstein-Itzehoe (1232 – 21 December 1290) was the only count of Holstein-Itzehoe. Life He was the second son of Count Adolf IV of Holstein and Heilwig of Lippe. When his father retired to a monastery in 1238, he rul ...

(d. 1290) and Elisabeth of Mecklenburg (d. ). In 1285, he was able to persuade King

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to release Duke Valdemar IV of Schleswig from captivity. After the death of his father, the surviving sons divided the county among themselves. Henry was awarded the division of Rendsburg. He was constantly at war with the

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. Shortly before his death he introduced a toll on imported goods. Half the proceeds went to Hamburg, the other half was divided between Holstein-Schaumburg and Holstein-Rendsburg. After the Holstein-Schaumburg line died out in 1640, the Holstein half of the proceeds went to the Duchy of Holstein. After the Dukes of Holstein died out in 1768, the proceeds went to Hamburg Eduard Wippermann, ''Kurze Staatsgeschichte der Herzogthümer Schleswig und Holstein'', p. 6
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Seal

The inscription in his seal reads: (Seal of Henry, Count of Holstein and Schauenburg).

Marriage and issue

He married in 1289 to Heilwig (1265 – after 1331), the daughter of Willem II van Bronkhorst, lord of Bronkhorst and Rekem, and of Ermgard van Randerode. The couple had the following children: *

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( – 1 April 1340), married Sophia of Werle, the daughter of

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(d. January 1350), married Duke Eric II of Schleswig (1288–1325) * Giselbrecht (1290–1345) (counter-) bishop of

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(1300 – before 1340), married: *: in 1315 to Duke

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of Saxe-Lauenburg (1275–1322) *: in 1329 to King Eric of Denmark (1307–1331), divorced in 1331

References

External links

* * http://thepeerage.com/p4152.htm#i41519 * Henri Vermeulen, Het Geslacht van Bronkhorst en de boedelscheiding van 26 oktober 1328, in: De Nederlandsche Leeuw, page 102 until 110 Henry 01 House of Schauenburg 1258 births 1304 deaths 13th-century German nobility {{Germany-noble-stub