Adolph V, Count of Holstein-Segeberg

Count Adolf V (c. 1252, † 1308) was Count of Holstein- Kiel ( 1263-1273 ) and Count of Holstein - Segeberg ( 1273-1308 ).

Life

He was the elder of the two sons of Count John I of Holstein and of Elisabeth of Saxe- Wittenberg.

1273 there was a division of the state between Adolf V. and his brother John II on one side and her uncle Gerhard I of Holstein - Itzehoe on the other side. Adolf V. and John II, in turn, shared the them closed but the area of ​​the county again. Although Adolf V. received a from Ploen Lake extending to the Elbe area and northwest of Hamburg extensive lands in the lower Elbe region. Adolf V. called himself in his deeds henceforth Count of Holstein and Stormarn. His headquarters, he took on the most powerful stronghold of the county, the hilltop castle on the Segeberger limestone. In the historiography of his short time only existing part of the county is therefore also called the Segeberger share. He died in 1308.

His heirs, his brother John II the one-eyed man and his died in 1314 or 1315 sons Christopher and Adolf could not claim the Segeberger share Adolf V.. His successor in Segeberg was Adolf, the second son of John II, until his slaying of private revenge in August 1315 by Hartwig von Reventlow. The percentage was the elimination of John II in 1316 on the two remaining lines of the Graf house in Holstein.

Marriage and issue

Adolf V. was with Euphemia of Pomerania ( † after 1316 ), daughter of Bogislaw IV of Pomerania - Wolgast, married.

• Elizabeth of Schauenburg († 1318 ) ∞ 1307 Burchard I of Lindow Count of Ruppin.

Seal

(. see figure ) inscription: S ( igillum ) * Adolfi * comitis * HOLTSACIE * ET * (P) OMERANO (Seal Adolf Graf von Holstein and Pomerania )