Adolf IV of Holstein

Adolf IV ( * before 1205, † July 8, 1261 in Kiel ) was Edler von Schauenburg ( 1225-1238 ) and Count of Holstein and Stormarn ( 1227-1238 ).

Life

Adolf IV was the eldest son of Adolf III. ( Schauenburg and Holstein) and his second wife Adelheid of cross- ford. He belongs to the family of the Counts of Schauenburg and Holstein.

Adolf IV won several victories against the Danish King Valdemar II and his vassals 1225 he won the Battle of Mölln and drove Count Albrecht von Weimar- Orlamünde, the nephew and vassal of Valdemar II; He won with his coalition troops on July 22, 1227 at the Battle of Bornhöved against a Danish army under King Waldemar II and so captured the county Holstein back, his father had lost in 1203 to Waldemar. In 1235 he founded Kiel and Oldenburg in Holstein. He participated in 1238 in a crusade to Livonia and founded Itzehoe. In Schauenburg he also operated a scheduled development of the land and founded the city of Hagen and Rinteln.

As a result of a given in the distress of the Battle of Bornhöved vow Adolf moved to the Livlandfeldzug first in the Franciscan monastery founded by him at Hamburg's Alster Lake shore back. On August 13, 1239 he became a Franciscan monk in the which he founded in Kiel Marie monastery and was ordained in Rome in 1244 as a priest. Guardian of his two minor sons was his son Duke Abel of Schleswig, a son of Valdemar II Also in 1244 he founded Neustadt in Holstein. He died in 1261 he founded the Franciscan monastery in Kiel. After Adolf's death was Holstein ( Holstein Itzehoe ) divided between his sons Johann ( Holstein Kiel) and Gerhard, after it had already come to 1241 to use division. His wife Heilwig became a nun and went to a company founded by her hamburger Cistercian monastery in Harvestehude.

Marriage and issue

He was with Heilwig zur Lippe (1200-1248), daughter of the noble gentlemen Hermann II ( lip ) married to the lip and Lord of Rheda and had with her the following children:

  • Mechthild (* 1225, † 1288) I ∞ 1237 Abel, Duke of Schleswig, later King of Denmark (House Estridsson ). This created the close contacts of Schauenburger to the Duchy of Schleswig.
  • II ∞ 1261 Birger Jarl, Regent of Sweden
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