County of Schaumburg
County of Schaumburg Grafschaft Schaumburg | |||||||||||
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![]() County of Schaumburg about 1560 | |||||||||||
Status | State of the Holy Roman Empire | ||||||||||
Capital | Rinteln | ||||||||||
Common languages | Northern Low Saxon | ||||||||||
Government | County | ||||||||||
Historical era | Middle Ages | ||||||||||
• Established | 1110 | ||||||||||
1640 | |||||||||||
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The County of Schaumburg (German: Grafschaft Schaumburg), until ca. 1485 known as Schauenburg, was a state of the Holy Roman Empire, located in the present German state of Lower Saxony. Its territory was more or less congruent with the present district Landkreis Schaumburg.
History[]
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Schaumburg originated as a medieval county, which was founded at the beginning of the 12th century. It was named after Schauenburg Castle, near Rinteln on 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.
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In 1110, Adolf I, Lord of Schauenburg was appointed by Lothair, Duke of Saxony to hold Holstein and Stormarn, including Hamburg, as fiefs.[1] Subsequently, the House of Schaumburg were also counts of Holstein and its partitions Holstein-Itzehoe, Holstein-Kiel, Holstein-Pinneberg (until 1640), Holstein-Plön, Holstein-Segeberg and Holstein-Rendsburg (until 1460) and through the latter at times also the dukes of Schleswig.
Count Adolf IV was an active ruler and founded the cities of Stadthagen and Rinteln.
From 1500 the County of Schaumburg belonged to the Lower Rhenish-Westphalian Circle of the Holy Roman Empire.
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After the childless death in 1640 of , 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 agnatic Schaumburg heirs into three parts, one incorporated into the ducal Brunswick and Lunenburgian Principality of Lüneburg, the largest portion becoming the County of Schaumburg-Lippe, and the eastern territory continuing the name County of Schaumburg (Grafschaft Schaumburg hessischen Anteils), ruled in personal union by Hesse-Cassel. All three are now part of the state of Lower Saxony.
When the District of Schaumburg (Landkreis Schaumburg) was formed in middle Lower Saxony in 1977, it chose to use a coat of arms derived from the ancient arms of the Counts of Schaumberg.
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Counts of Schauenburg[]
- 1106–1130 Adolf I
- 1130–1164 Adolf II
- 1164–1225 Adolf III
- 1225–1238 Adolf IV
- 1238–1290 Gerhard I
- 1290–1315 Adolf VI
- 1315–1354
- 1354–1370
- 1370–1404
- 1404–1426
- 1426–1464 (1400–1464)
- 1464–1474 (1419–1474)
- 1474–1492 (1420–1492)
- 1492–1510 (1426–1510)
- 1510–1526 (1439–1526)
- 1526–1527 (1449–1527)
- 1527–1531 Jobst I (1483–1531)
- 1531–1560 (joint rule with his brother Otto IV since 1544)
- 1531–1581 (ca. 1520–1581) ruled the Herrschaft of Gemen
- 1544–1576 Otto IV (1517–1576), prince-bishop of Hildesheim in 1531–1537 as Otto III, converted to the teachings of Martin Luther and began Reformation in 1559, jointly with his brother John V until 1560
- 1576–1601 (1547–1601)
- 1601–1622 Ernst (1569–1622)
- 1622–1635 Jobst Herman (1593–1635)
- 1635–1640 (1614–1640)
See also[]
- Schaumburg-Lippe
- Schaumburg
Bibliography[]
- Matthias Blazek: Die Grafschaft Schaumburg 1647–1977. ibidem, Stuttgart 2011 ISBN 978-3-8382-0257-0
- Walter Maack: Die Geschichte der Grafschaft Schaumburg, 3. Aufl., Rinteln 1986
References[]
- ^ Lemma Schauenburg/Schaumburg. In: Klaus-Joachim Lorenzen-Schmidt, Ortwin Pelc (Hrsg.): Schleswig-Holstein Lexikon. 2. Aufl., Wachholtz, Neumünster, 2006.
External links[]
- Marek, Miroslav. "Genealogy of Schauenburg". Genealogy.EU.
- Map of the counties of Schaumburg and Schaumburg-Lippe in 1789
- Counties of the Holy Roman Empire
- Lower Rhenish-Westphalian Circle
- 1110s establishments in the Holy Roman Empire
- 1110 establishments in Europe
- 1640 disestablishments in Europe