Jobst I, Count of Holstein-Schauenburg (1483-1531) was a German nobleman. He was the ruling Count of

Schauenburg Schauenburg is a municipality in the district of Kassel, in Hesse, Germany. It is situated west of Kassel Kassel (; in Germany, spelled Cassel until 1926) is a city on the Fulda River in northern Hesse, Germany. It is the administrative seat o ...

and

Holstein-Pinneberg 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 in modern-day Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Rise and fall of ...

from 1527 until his death. He was a son of John IV (1449 – 30 March 1527) and his wife, Cordula of Gemen (d. 30 May 1528).

Marriage and issue

In 1506, he married Mary of Nassau-Siegen (1491-1547), a daughter of Count John V of Nassau-Siegen. Among their children were: * Otto, died young * Adolph III, Elector and Archbishop of

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from 1547 to 1556 *

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, Elector and Archbishop of Cologne from 1556 to 1558 * John V ( – 1560), Count of Holstein-Schauenburg from 1531, married in 1555 to Countess Elisabeth of East Frisia (1531-1558) * Cordula (1516-1542), married: *# on 8 April 1529 to Count Everwin of Bentheim (1461-13 December 1530) *# in 1536 to Count Gumprecht II of Neuenahr-Alpen *

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(1517-1576), co-ruler from 1531 to 1560, ruling Count of Holstein-Schauenburg from 1560 * Jobst II ( – 1581), ruling Lord of

Gemen Gemen was an immediate, sovereign lordship of the Holy Roman Empire, in the Lower Rhine region. Since Gemen had a vote in the Imperial Diet it was also an Imperial Estate. It was centered on Gemen, a small town and castle in the present municipal ...

from 1531, married in 1561 to Elisabeth of Palland (d. 1606) * William II (d. 1580), Provost of

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References

* C.Porskrog Rasmussen, E. Imberger, D. Lohmeier, I. Momsen (eds.): ''Die Fürsten des Landes'', Neumünster 2008

External links

Genealogy of Holstein
Counts of Holstein House of Schauenburg 1483 births 1531 deaths {{Germany-noble-stub