John VI, Count of Oldenburg

Count Johann VI. of Oldenburg ( Oldenburg * 1501, † 1548 in Bremen) was Count of Oldenburg. He was the eldest son of Count John V and his wife Anna of Anhalt- Bernburg. His reign was marked by the conflict with his co-ruling younger brothers.

Life

John VI. reigned from 1526 along with his younger brothers George, Christoph and Anton I.. , the ratio of the four brothers was the beginning of their joint reign intently. John VI. and George and her mother Anna remained in the old Catholic faith, while Christoph and Anton I took the Protestant faith. In addition, Christoph and Anton I tried the relationship with the East Frisian neighbors to relax by the Oldenburg - East Frisian double wedding, what John VI. and George, however, rejected for dynastic reservations about the first 1464 to the kingdom earldom Ascended house Cirksenas. Christoph and Anton I could John VI. Georg and finally in 1529 to compel reluctant abdication.

John VI. trying to make his disempowerment reversed and found support at Duke Henry the Younger of Brunswick- Wolfenbüttel. 1533 had John VI. content in a contract with a limited 10 year and reduced the competence co-regency. Further attempts to enforce his right to rule participation or division were unsuccessful. 1542 received John VI. in comparison, a financial settlement with simultaneous waiver of co-regency. By Georg enter the contemporary sources no information.

After his death in 1548 in Bremen, leaving John VI. in Oldenburg a widow bourgeois origin, he had married well after termination of all government hopes.