The House of Oldenburg is an ancient dynasty of German origin whose members rule or have ruled in Denmark, Iceland, Greece, Norway, Russia, Sweden, the...
64 KB (2,088 words) - 07:07, 22 August 2024
House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, better known as the House of Glücksburg, is a branch of the German House of Oldenburg. Oldenburg house...
35 KB (2,843 words) - 08:12, 5 August 2024
Egilmar I (c. 1060–1112) was the first Count of Oldenburg and thus founder of the House of Oldenburg. He reigned from c. 1091 to 1108. Count Egilmar I...
5 KB (698 words) - 17:30, 24 August 2024
This is a list of the counts, dukes, grand dukes, and prime ministers of Oldenburg. 1088/1101–1108 Elimar I 1108–1143 Elimar II 1143–1168 Christian I...
9 KB (435 words) - 21:57, 22 March 2024
The Grand Duchy of Oldenburg (German: Großherzogtum Oldenburg, also known as Holstein-Oldenburg) was a grand duchy within the German Confederation, North...
7 KB (464 words) - 12:40, 16 June 2024
named Oldenburg (Oldb) (Oldenburg in Oldenburg) to distinguish from Oldenburg in Holstein. During the French annexation (1811–1813) in the wake of the Napoleonic...
36 KB (3,248 words) - 07:18, 20 August 2024
(a cadet branch of the German House of Oldenburg that reigned in Denmark), ascended to the throne and adopted his Romanov mother’s house name. Officially...
64 KB (7,177 words) - 16:39, 25 August 2024
belong to the House of Oldenburg since Philip was by birth a member of the Glücksburg branch of that house. The monarch is head of state of fifteen sovereign...
28 KB (1,947 words) - 10:05, 25 August 2024
Oldenburg may also refer to: Mount Oldenburg, Ellsworth Land, Antarctica Oldenburg (city), an independent city in Lower Saxony, Germany Oldenburg (district)...
2 KB (327 words) - 17:33, 12 February 2024
elder Danish line of the German House of Oldenburg. Other parts of the duchies were ruled by the kings of Denmark. The territories of Gottorp are located...
31 KB (2,045 words) - 09:08, 20 August 2024
County of Oldenburg (German: Grafschaft Oldenburg) was a county of the Holy Roman Empire. In 1448 Christian I of Denmark (of the House of Oldenburg), Count...
11 KB (1,325 words) - 12:48, 16 June 2024
The Duchy of Oldenburg (German: Herzogtum Oldenburg) named after its capital, the town of Oldenburg was a state in the north-west of present-day Germany...
13 KB (1,451 words) - 04:02, 22 July 2024
member of the House of Oldenburg, while by marriage she became a member of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine. She is a daughter of Duke Johann of Oldenburg and...
6 KB (441 words) - 02:31, 20 July 2024
Theoderic of Oldenburg (c. 1398 – 14 February 1440) was a feudal lord in Northern Germany, holding the counties of Delmenhorst and Oldenburg. He was called...
9 KB (832 words) - 16:46, 5 May 2024
John I, Count of Oldenburg (c. 1210 – c. 1270) was a ruling Count of Oldenburg from 1233 until his death. His father, Christian II, had ruled jointly with...
4 KB (338 words) - 17:54, 22 February 2024
Count of Oldenburg (died 1233) was a German nobleman. He was the ruling Count of Oldenburg from 1209 until his death. He was a son of Maurice I of Oldenburg...
2 KB (174 words) - 13:22, 21 February 2024
Throne of the Kingdom of Norway: the more prominent include the Fairhair dynasty (872–970), the House of Sverre (1184–1319), and the House of Oldenburg (1450–1481...
56 KB (1,459 words) - 19:44, 25 August 2024
Duke of Oldenburg (German: Christian Nikolaus Udo Peter Herzog von Oldenburg; born 1 February 1955) is the head of the Grand Ducal Family of Oldenburg. Christian...
7 KB (466 words) - 13:12, 25 July 2024
Count of Oldenburg (German: Johann II. Graf von Oldenburg; died c. 1314 or 1316) was Count of Oldenburg from 1275 until around 1301. He was the son of Christian...
4 KB (261 words) - 15:35, 27 February 2024
Duke of the House of Oldenburg. He was the grandfather of Duke Peter of Oldenburg as well as grandfather of Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich, General of the...
16 KB (1,452 words) - 04:59, 26 December 2023
Count of Oldenburg from 1108 through 1142. He was son of Elimar I, Count of Oldenburg and his wife Richenza. Elimar married before 1102 Eilika of Werl-Rietberg...
2 KB (90 words) - 17:27, 24 February 2024
Conrad I of Oldenburg (German: Konrad I. von Oldenburg; died 1347) was the Count of Oldenburg from 1344 to 1347. He succeeded his brother, John III of Oldenburg...
3 KB (119 words) - 02:17, 28 July 2024
the elderly King Charles XIII of Sweden, who had no other heir and whose Holstein-Gottorp branch of the House of Oldenburg thus was soon to be extinct on...
21 KB (1,689 words) - 12:19, 25 June 2024
branch called House of Holstein-Gottorp, which is a cadet branch of the then royal Danish House of Oldenburg. The Danish monarchs and the Dukes of Holstein-Gottorp...
20 KB (1,055 words) - 16:41, 3 August 2024
includes the kings from the Houses of Bjelbo (Olaf II); Pomerania (Eric VII) and Palatinate-Neumarkt (Christopher III) + the son of Hakon Sunnivasson (Eric...
53 KB (47 words) - 15:43, 5 June 2024
of Oldenburg (c. 1342 – 1399) was the ruling count of Oldenburg from 1368 until 1398. He was born sometime before 1347 to Count Conrad I of Oldenburg...
4 KB (140 words) - 02:38, 7 August 2024
Count of Oldenburg from 1169 through 1211. He was the son of Count Christian I of Oldenburg and his wife Kunigunde. He married Salome, the daughter of Otto...
1 KB (65 words) - 17:31, 24 August 2024
the House of Glücksburg itself being a collateral branch of the House of Oldenburg. The House of Glücksburg also produced the monarchs of Norway, of the...
46 KB (5,190 words) - 23:06, 13 August 2024
line of the House of Oldenburg. Upon the death of King Frederick VII of Denmark in 1863, Christian (who was Frederick's second cousin and husband of Frederick's...
75 KB (6,839 words) - 10:01, 21 July 2024
Friederike of Schlieben, and was a member of the ducal house of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, a junior male branch of the House of Oldenburg. From 1804...
18 KB (1,561 words) - 21:27, 8 August 2024