The House of Schaumburg was a dynasty of German rulers. Until c. 1485 , it was also known as the House of Schauenburg . Together with its ancestral possession, the County of Schaumburg , the family also ruled the County of Holstein and its partitions Holstein-Itzehoe , Holstein-Kiel , Holstein-Pinneberg (till 1640), Holstein-Plön , Holstein-Segeberg and Holstein-Rendsburg (till 1460) and through the latter at times also the Duchy of Schleswig .
5-591: Holstein-Plön was the name of a county ruled by the House of Schauenburg that ruled in Holstein and Stormarn from 1110/11 in the 12th century. The county emerged before 1295 when the County of Holstein-Itzehoe was partitioned after the death of Count Gerhard I of Holstein-Itzehoe (died 1290) into the counties of Holstein-Plön, Holstein-Pinneberg and Holstein-Rendsburg . The following counts ruled over Holstein-Plön: Following
10-498: The Weser , where the owners started calling themselves Lords (from 1295 Counts ) of Schauenburg. Adolf I probably became the first Lord of Schauenburg in 1106. In 1110, Adolf I, Lord of Schauenburg was appointed by Lothair, Duke of Saxony to hold Holstein and Stormarn , including Hamburg , as fiefs . Holstein was occupied by Denmark after the Battle of Stellau (1201), but
15-527: The Plön line died out in 1390, Holstein-Kiel (and Holstein-Plön within it) reverted to Holstein-Rendsburg , ruled by Count Nicholas of Holstein-Rendsburg (died 1397) and his nephew, Count Gerhard VI of Holstein-Rendsburg (died 1404). A circa-1400 map of the region shows the borders of Holstein-Rendsburg and its subordinate counties, Holstein-Kiel and Holstein-Plön. House of Schauenburg The Schaumburgs were named after Schauenburg Castle , near Rinteln on
20-425: The death of Gerhard II his sons, Gerhard IV of Holstein-Plön and his younger half-brother John III , ruled jointly over Holstein-Plön. In 1314 Gerhard IV sold his lands to John III, who thus became the sole Count of Holstein-Plön. John III conquered Holstein-Kiel with Gerhard III of Holstein-Rendsburg . Holstein-Plön reverted to Holstein-Kiel in 1350 upon the death of 27-year-old Gerhard V without issue. When
25-649: Was reconquered by the Count of Schauenburg and his allies in the Battle of Bornhöved (1227) . After the death in 1640 of Count Otto V without children, the House of Schaumburg became extinct. The County of Holstein-Pinneberg was merged with the Duchy of Holstein . The County of Schaumburg proper was partitioned among the Schaumburg heirs into three parts, one incorporated into the ducal Brunswick and Lunenburgian Principality of Lüneburg ,
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