Holstein-Rendsburg
Holstein-Rendsburg was a Schauenburg county seated at Rendsburg on the Eider. In 1337 Count Gerhard III controlled Jutland and Funen and had previously served as regent of Denmark.
In 1340 the Danish squire Niels Ebbesen killed Gerhard in his bed at Randers. Gerhard VI received Schleswig as a Danish fief in 1386. After Adolphus VIII died childless in 1459, the estates elected Christian I of Denmark at Ribe in 1460, on condition that Schleswig and Holstein remain undivided. Holstein became a duchy in 1474.
Characters
- Adolphus of Holstein
- Gerhard I, Count of Holstein-Itzehoe
- Gerhard III of Holstein-Rendsburg
- Henry I, Count of Holstein-Rendsburg
- Henry II of Holstein-Rendsburg
- Nicholas of Holstein-Rendsburg
- Sophia of Werle