John V, Count of Oldenburg

Count John V of Oldenburg and Delmenhorst (* 1460 in Oldenburg, † February 10, 1526 ibid ) was Count of Oldenburg from the House of Oldenburg. His parents were of Gerd Bold and Adelheid of Tecklenburg.

Life

John V was able to after the resignation of the government by Count Gerhard IV, the brave, prevail against his brothers and was Count of Oldenburg. The competing with Oldenburg Count of East Frisia, Edzard I, he tried to keep at bay through alliances. As part of the Saxon feud he attacked along with the unified dukes of Brunswick- Lüneburg and Edzard could conquer this in January 1514 Butjadingen and the Urban land and parts of the Frisian Wehde. Oldenburg initially received the Urban land with Esenshamm and Abbehausen as Allodium, 1517 Count Johann had the fiefdom of Duke Henry the Younger take of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. But after a failed uprising in 1515 the peasants Butjadinger the Welf dukes sold off its remaining ownership of the Oldenburg Count, so that 1523 was finally Butjadingen Oldenburg.

After his death, his son Anton I. succeeded as Count of Oldenburg.