John II, Count of Oldenburg (; died ) was
Count of Oldenburg
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from 1275 until around 1301. He was the son of
Christian III, Count of Oldenburg. His mother was either Hedwig von Oldenburg in
Wildeshausen
Wildeshausen (; Low Saxon: ''Wilshusen'') is a town and the capital of the Oldenburg district in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated by the river Hunte.
History
In the 1648 Peace of Westphalia which ended the Thirty Years' War Sweden gained lar ...
or Jutta of Bentheim.
Marriages and issue
John married twice. His first marriage was to
Elisabeth, the daughter of
John, Duke of Brunswick and Lunenburg and
Liutgard von Holstein-Itzehoe. His second marriage was to Countess
Hedwig of Diepholz. John had five children:
*
Christian IV, Count of Oldenburg
*
John III, Count of Oldenburg, married Mechtild (Matilda) of Bronckhorst
*
Conrad I, Count of Oldenburg
*
Maurice of Oldenburg (killed in action in 1368 near
Blexen),
Dean (Domdechant) of
Bremen Cathedral
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,
Diocesan Administrator
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of the
Archdiocese of Bremen
The Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen () was an Hochstift, ecclesiastical principality (787–1566/1648) of the Holy Roman Empire and the Catholic Church that after its definitive secularization in 1648 became the hereditary Bremen-Verden, Duchy of ...
(1345–1362), Archbishop Elect of Bremen (1348, papally refused) and
coadjutor The term "coadjutor" (literally "co-assister" in Latin) is a title qualifier indicating that the holder shares the office with another person, with powers equal to the other in all but formal order of precedence.
These include:
* Coadjutor bishop ...
of Bremen (1348–1360)
[Adolf Hofmeister, "Adel, Bauern und Stände", in: Geschichte des Landes zwischen Elbe und Weser: 3 vols., Hans-Eckhard Dannenberg and Heinz-Joachim Schulze (eds.), Stade: Landschaftsverband der ehem. Herzogtümer Bremen und Verden, 1995 and 2008, vol. I 'Vor- und Frühgeschichte' (1995; ), vol. II 'Mittelalter (einschl. Kunstgeschichte)' (1995; ), vol. III 'Neuzeit' (2008; ), (=Schriftenreihe des Landschaftsverbandes der ehem. Herzogtümer Bremen und Verden; vols. 7–9), vol. II: pp. 195-240, here p. 211.]
* Gisela of Oldenburg; married
Gerhard III, Count of Hoya
References
Counts of Oldenburg
13th-century births
1310s deaths
Year of birth unknown
Year of death uncertain
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