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The County of Schaumburg originated as a medieval county, which was founded at the beginning of the 12th century. It was named after Schauenburg Castle, near Rinteln on the Weser, where the owners started calling themselves Lords (from 1295 Counts) of Schauenburg. Adolf I probably became the first Lord of Schauenburg in 1106.
Adolf III, Count of Schauenburg and Holstein (1160 – 3 January 1225) was the ruler of the Counties of Schauenburg and Holstein. He is particularly remembered for his establishment of a new settlement for traders on the banks of the Alster near the Neue Burg in Hamburg .
Schaumburg originated as a medieval county, which was founded at the beginning of the 12th century. It was named after Schauenburg Castle, near Rinteln on the Weser, where the owners started calling themselves Lords (from 1295 Counts) of Schauenburg. Adolf I probably became the first Lord of Schauenburg in 1106.
The Counts of Schauenburg and Holstein were titles of the Frankish Empire. The dynastic family came from the County of Schauenburg near Rinteln on the Weser in Germany. Together with its ancestral possessions in Bückeburg and Stadthagen, the House of Schauenburg ruled the County of Schauenburg and the County of Holstein. The comital titles of Holstein were subject to the liege lord, the Dukes ...
When Count Adolf III of Schauenburg and Holstein was born in 1160, in Dassel, Einbeck, Hanover, Prussia, Germany, his father, Adolf II of Holstein Count of Schauenburg and Holstein, was 32 and his mother, Mathilde von Thüringen, was 32. He married Adelheid von Assel in 1182.
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The counties of Schauenburg and Holstein. The County of Schaumburg originated as a medieval county, which was founded at the beginning of the 12th century. It was named after Schauenburg Castle, near Rinteln on the Weser, where the owners started calling themselves Lords (from 1295 Counts) of Schauenburg.
When Adolf III of Holstein was born in 1160, in Dassel, Einbeck, Hanover, Prussia, German Empire, his father, Adolf II of Holstein Count of Schauenburg and Holstein, was 32 and his mother, Mathilde von Thüringen, was 32. He married Adelheid von Assel in 1182. He died on 3 January 1225, in Loccum, Nienburg, Lower Saxony, Germany, at the age of 65.
