Henry III, Count of Schauenburg-Holstein

Henry III. Look of Burg- Holstein ( † February 1421 in Bordesholm ) was Bishop of Osnabrück ( 1402-1410 ) then Count of Holstein.

He was the youngest son of Henry II and his second wife Ingeborg of Mecklenburg -Schwerin. He remained unmarried as a chaplain.

Life

As the youngest son he was scheduled for a church career and became a deacon in Osnabrück. After the death of the bishop, he was appointed on 2 February 1402, his successor. But his older brothers died early in a feud against Dithmar, Albrecht in a horse fall 1403 and Gerhard fell in 1404 in the Battle of the Hamme. Henry saw himself as the heir, in 1410 renounced the office of bishop and demanded the custody of the descendants of his elder brother, and thus the power not only over Holstein, but also over the Duchy of Schleswig, which had been conferred as a hereditary fief in 1386 Gerhard. At the same time wanted to the Danish monarch Margaret or King Erik. They saw such an opportunity, and loyalty of Schleswig to Denmark.

Thus, the Danish king invited the Count and the nobility to Kolding, and lured Henry III. after Hindsgavl on Funen. Henry was arrested and should pay 11,000 marks, to the cession of Flensburg came as a pledge for a year. The assignment was done, but the king refused to accept the money. Thus the war between the Counts of Holstein and Denmark began. On July 13, 1409 Erik joined an alliance with the Dithmarschers. On August 12, 1410 a battle took place on the heath in the Official Solleruper Eggebek. There, the counts remained victorious, the Danish army leader Mogens Pedersen Munk knight fell in battle. Thus, a comparison was closed on March 26, 1411 in Kolding.

In October 1412 Margaret died and the Holstein nobility did not want to return the conquered possessions, as it had provided the comparison. King Erik now she complained before Lehnsgericht ( Danehof, ie the national assembly ) in Nyborg on and it said on July 29, 1413 the fief forfeited. Danish troops now occupy Schleswig. Count Henry allied himself then with the hamburgers, who wanted no such powerful neighbors. 1419 conquered the Danes Fehmarn and plundered it, but at the Battle of Immerwad at Hadersleben they were defeated by the Holsteiners. Thus, a truce was concluded on 26 November 1420. 1421 was Count Henry as the next Bishop of Schleswig in conversation, Bishop John III. Skondelev, however, died after him on August 17, 1421st