Otto IV of Schaumburg
Otto IV of Holstein- Schaumburg (* 1517, † December 21, 1576 in Biickeburg ) was reigning Count of Schaumburg and Holstein - Pinneberg.
Life and work
His parents were Count Jobst I von Holstein -looking castle (1483-1531) and Marie née Countess of Nassau- Dillenburg ( 1491-1547 ). From 1531 to 1537 he served as Otto III. Schaumburg Prince-Bishop of Hildesheim. He was from 1534 to 1544 Castle Hagen newly built by the architect Jörg Unkair. Meanwhile, led his brother Adolf of Schaumburg, the government in Schauenburg and Holstein - Pinneberg.
In 1544, he joined to the government. It was a time of sectarian polarization, military confrontation and political upheaval. He modernized the administration and had close relations with the Emperor and the Empire. The ramparts of the castle Rodenberg he left in 1556 set repaired.
On 5 May 1559 he dropped at the urging of his second wife Elisabeth Ursula introduce the Reformation by his count's Landdrost Christoph von Munchhausen in the County of Schaumburg, Jacob Dammann appointed as city and court preacher city Hagen and told the Mecklenburg church order of 1552 for valid alone. He had previously. Upon his brothers Adolf III Schaumburg († 1556 ), Elector Archbishop of Cologne and Anton von Schaumburg († 1558 ), his successor, who were both staunch opponents of the Reformation, have to take into consideration.
In the period 1560-1564 he had the castle rebuilt Biickeburg to a four-winged castle. In 1565, he gave top churches stain rights. The Wasserburg Sachsenhagen he pledged in 1571 to Hermann von Mengersen.
Otto was buried next to his first wife Maria of Pomerania -Stettin († 1554 ) in the St. Martini Church in the city of Hagen; later there was also his second wife Ursula Elisabeth of Brunswick -Lüneburg († 1586) their final resting place, and the elaborate tomb in the church, showing all three, was created. Otto's youngest son Ernst had the bones of his parents - but not of Otto's first wife Maria - patient transfer to his new Fürstenmausoleum at the apex of the church choir.
Marriages and children
In his first marriage he was married to Mary (* 1527, † 1554 ), daughter Barnim IX, Duke of Pomerania -Stettin. . From this union four sons were born:
- Hermann ( * 1545, † 1592), Prince-Bishop of Minden 1566-1581
- Otto ( * 1545, † 1572), insane
- Adolf XI. (* 1547, † 1601), the reigning Count of Holstein- Schaumburg
- Anton (* 1549, † 1599), Prince-Bishop of Minden from 1587
In 1558 he married Elisabeth Ursula (* 1539, † 1586), a daughter of Ernest I. the Confessor, Duke of Brunswick and Lüneburg. With her he had the following children:
- Maria ( * 1559, † 1616) ∞ 1591 Count Jobst of Limburg- Styrum (* 1560, † 1621)
- Elisabeth ( * August 3, 1566; † September 7, 1638 ) ∞ Simon of Lippe (* April 15, 1554, † December 17, 1613 )
- Ernst ( * 1569, † 1622), (from 1601 reigning Count of Holstein- Schaumburg, 1619 Prince ).