Gerhard II of Holstein-Plön (1254 - 28 October 1312), nicknamed the Blind, was Count of Holstein-Plön from 1290 to 1312.

Life

He was the second 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 r ...

and Elisabeth of Mecklenburg. After his father's death in 1290, the county was divided among the surviving sons. Gerhard II received Holstein-Plön; his younger brother Adolph VI received Holstein-Schauenburg and Henry received Holstein-Rendsburg.

Seal

The seal reads : :"Seal of Count Gerhard of Hostein and Schauenburg"

Marriages and issue

He married on 12 December 1275 the Swedish Princess Ingeborg ( ), a daughter of King

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of Sweden. They had four children: * Catherine ( before 1300) * Gerhard IV (12771323), Count of Holstein-Plön * Valdemar ( 29 July 1306), Count of Holstein-Schauenburg, died after the Second Battle of

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* Elizabeth ( { 20 July 1318 or 1319), married Otto I, Duke of Pomerania File:Seal_Waldemar_(Holstein-Plön)_01.jpg, Seal of Waldemar of Holstein-Plön File:Seal_Waldemar_(Holstein-Plön)_02.jpg, Seal of Waldemar of Holstein-Plön In 1293 Gerhard married Agnes of Brandenburg, the widow of King

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. With her, he had a son: * John III ( - 27 September 1359), Count of Holstein in Kiel from 1312 until his death.

Ancestors

References

* Johann Friedrich Camerer: ''Vermischte historisch-politische Nachrichten'', 1762 Plön Counts of Holstein House of Schauenburg 1254 births 1312 deaths 13th-century German nobility {{Germany-noble-stub