Jobst I, Count of Holstein-Schauenburg (1483-1531) was a German nobleman. He was the ruling Count of
Schauenburg and
Holstein-Pinneberg 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 Cologne
The Archbishop of Cologne governs the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cologne in western North Rhine-Westphalia. Historically, the archbishop was ''ex officio'' one of the prince-electors of the Holy Roman Empire and ruled the Electorate of Cologne ...
from 1547 to 1556
*
Anton, 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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Otto IV
Otto IV (1175 – 19 May 1218) was the Holy Roman Emperor from 1209 until his death in 1218.
Otto spent most of his early life in England and France. He was a follower of his uncle Richard the Lionheart, who made him Count of Poitou in 1196 ...
(1517-1576), co-ruler from 1531 to 1560, ruling Count of Holstein-Schauenburg from 1560
*
Jobst II ( – 1581), ruling Lord of
Gemen from 1531, married in 1561 to Elisabeth of Palland (d. 1606)
* William II (d. 1580), Provost of
Hildesheim
Hildesheim (; or ; ) is a city in Lower Saxony, in north-central Germany with 101,693 inhabitants. It is in the district of Hildesheim (district), Hildesheim, about southeast of Hanover on the banks of the Innerste River, a small tributary of t ...
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
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