Derrick or Dietrich of Oldenburg, latin-based anglicization also Theoderic of Oldenburg ¹ (c. 1398–February 14, 1444), nicknamed Theoderic the Lucky or the Fortunate (Teudericus Fortunatus), was a feudal lord in northern Germany, holding the counties of Delmenhorst and Oldenburg. He was called "Fortunatus" as he was able to secure Delmenhorst for his branch of the Oldenburgs. Events Glendalough monastery, Wicklow Ireland destroyed. ... February 14 is the 45th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Events March 2 - Gjergj Kastriot Skanderbeg proclaimed commander of the Albanian resistance April 16 - Truce of Tours. ... Delmenhorst is an urban district (Kreisfreie Stadt) of 76,000 inhabitants located in Lower Saxony at 53°03′ N 8°37′ E between Bremen and Oldenburg. ... Oldenburg (Low German: Ollnborg) is an Independent City in Lower Saxony, Germany. ...

Lineage

He was the son of Count Christian V of Oldenburg (who became count in about 1398 and died in 1423) and his wife Countess Agnes of Honstein. His grandfather, Count Conrad I of Oldenburg (d. approx. 1368) had left his lands divided between his father and his uncle Conrad II. Events Glendalough monastery, Wicklow Ireland destroyed. ... Events July 31 - Hundred Years War: Battle of Cravant - The French army is defeated at Cravant on the banks of the river Yonne. ... Events Timur ascends throne of Samarkand. ...

His father Christian V managed to gain the upper hand when Conrad II's son Maurice IV died in 1420. After this, most of Oldenburg family patrimony was under the power of Theodoric's branch. However, the house had several minor branches who had estates and claims, as was usual in any medieval fief. Events May 21 - Treaty of Troyes. ... Under the system of feudalism, a fiefdom, fief, feud or fee, consisted of heritable lands or revenue-producing property granted by a liege lord in return for a vassal knights service (usually fealty, military service, and security). ...

Theoderic of Oldenburg was the grandson of Ingeborg of Itzehoe, a Holstein princess who had married count Conrad I of Oldenburg. After the death of her only brother, Count Gerhard V of Holstein-Itzehoe-Plön, in 1350, Ingeborg and her issue were the heirs of Ingeborg's grandmother Ingeborg of Sweden (d. about 1290, first wife of Gerhard II of Plön-Itzehoe), the eldest daughter of King Valdemar of Sweden and Queen Sophia, who herself was the eldest daughter of the sonless King Eric IV of Denmark and his wife Jutta of Saxony. Since other legitimate heirs of king Valdemar apparently were extinct at this time, Theoderic was regarded to have been the Heir-General of kings Valdemar I of Sweden and Eric IV of Denmark. Events 29 August - An English fleet personally commanded by King Edward III defeats a Spanish fleet in the battle of Les Espagnols sur Mer. ... For broader historical context, see 1290s and 13th century. ... Valdemar Birgersson (1239-1302), King of Sweden 1250-1275/1288/1302, was the son of princess Ingeborg Eriksdotter of Sweden and Birger Jarl, Earl Birger Magnusson of Bjälbo, who more or less ruled Sweden from 1248 under king Eric Ericsson the Lame his brother in law. ... Eric IV (1216-August 9, 1250), also known as Plovpenning, was king of Denmark from 1241 until his death. ... The Free State of Saxony (German: Freistaat Sachsen; Sorbian: Swobodny Stata Sakska) is at a land area of 18,413 km² and a population of 4. ...

Theodoric succeeded his father as head of the house in 1423. Events July 31 - Hundred Years War: Battle of Cravant - The French army is defeated at Cravant on the banks of the river Yonne. ...

Marriages and children

He had firstly, as a child, married (for reasons of succession and uniting the hereditary fiefs) a distant cousin, Countess Adelheid of Oldenburg-Delmenhorst (who is said to have died already in 1404), daughter of Oldenburg Count Otto IV of Delmenhorst, and in 1423 he married for a second time, Hedwig of Schleswig-Holstein (born in about 1398-1400, died 1436), widow of Prince Balthasar of Mecklenburg and daughter of the murdered Duke Gerhard VI of Schleswig-Holstein and his wife Elisabeth of Brunswick, thus sister of the reigning Duke Adolf VIII. All his legitimate children were born of the second wife. Events June 14 - Owain Glyndwr of Wales allies with the French against the English and the Henry of Lancaster. ... Events July 31 - Hundred Years War: Battle of Cravant - The French army is defeated at Cravant on the banks of the river Yonne. ... Helvig of Schauenburg (d. ... Events Glendalough monastery, Wicklow Ireland destroyed. ... Events Henry IV quells baron rebellion and executes The Earls of Kent, Huntingdon and Salisbury for their attempt to have Richard II of England restored as King Jean Froissart writes the Chronicles Medici family becomes powerful in Florence, Italy Births December 25 - John Sutton, 1st Baron Dudley, Lord Lieutenant of... Events April - Paris is recaptured by the French End of the Hussite Wars in Bohemia. ... Adolf von Schauenburg, d 4 December 1459, Duke of Southern Jutland (in Danish, Sonderjylland), i. ...

His second marriage strengthened this interest in Scandinavian monarchies, since Helvig was a descendant of King Eric V of Denmark, King Haakon V of Norway and King Magnus I of Sweden. Eric V Klipping (1249-1286) was King of Denmark (1259-1286) and son of Christopher I. Until 1264 he ruled under the auspices of his mother, the competent Queen Dowager Margaret Sambiria. ... Burial site of Håkon V in Oslo Haakon V Magnusson (1270 - May 8, 1319) was king of Norway from 1299 until 1319. ... Seal of Magnus I Magnus I of Sweden (1240 – 1290), often called Ladulås: Barnlock, was king of Sweden from 1275/1280 until his death in 1290. ...

At this time, all Scandinavia lived under the Kalmar Union erected by Queen Margaret I of Denmark. In 1387 she had lost her own heir Olav IV of Norway, the new heirs now being Eric of Pomerania, and his sister Catherine who was married with a prince of the Palatinate and Bavaria. The Kalmar Union flag. ... Queen Margaret I Margaret I Queen of Denmark and Norway, Regent of Sweden (1353 – October 28, 1412) was born in Vordingborg Castle, the daughter of Valdemar IV of Denmark and Helvig of Sønderjylland. ... Events June 2 - John Holland, a maternal half-brother of Richard II of England, is created Earl of Huntingdon. ... Olaf IV Haakonsson, (1370 - August 23, 1387), King of Norway and Denmark, son of Haakon VI of Norway and Margaret of Denmark. ... Eric of Pomerania Eric of Pomerania, Erik af Pommern, Erik VII (Danish title), Erik av Pommern (Eirik III) (Norwegian title) or Erik av Pommern (Eric XIII) (Swedish title), was adopted by Margaret I of Denmark and became the hereditary king of Norway (1389 – 1440), elected king of Denmark (1412 – 1439...

Count Theodoric of Oldenburg is said to have been a rival claimant to the crowns of Sweden and Denmark during the reign of Eric VII/ Eric XIII, whose succession was through Christopher I of Denmark, the younger brother of the murdered Eric IV, and through Magnus I of Sweden, younger brother of the deposed King Valdemar. Christopher I (1219-May 29, 1259) was king of Denmark between 1252 and 1259. ...

Count Theodoric had three surviving sons and one daughter:

• Christian (1426-1481), who succeeded him as Count of Oldenburg and Delmenhorst, and became later King Christian I of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, as well as Duke of Schleswig-Holstein.
• Maurice (1428-1464); when his elder brother became king, he was given the County of Delmenhorst.
• Gerhard (1430-1500); when his eldest brother had become king, he was given the county of Oldenburg, and from his other brother's heirs he also inherited Delmenhorst in about 1483. The third son got his name from usages of the mother's Holstein clan.
• Adelheid (1425-1475), first married count Ernest III of Hohnstein (d. 1454) and then in 1474 Count Gerhard VI of Mansfeld (d. 1492).

Dietrich of Oldenburg is a direct ancestor to the British royal family and, ultimately, Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. In fact, if one is to follow the paternal ancestry, one would find that following only Prince William's male ancestry, Dietrich is the direct paternal ancestor to William (see below). Christian I of Denmark (1426 – 1481), Danish monarch and union king of Denmark (1448 – 1481), Norway (1450 – 1481) and Sweden (1457 – 1464), under the Kalmar Union. ... Schleswig-Holstein is the northernmost of the 16 Bundesländer in Germany. ... Count Gerhard VI the Quarrelsome of Oldenburg (German: ) (1430 – 22 February 1500) was a Count of Oldenburg and regent of Bad Zwischenahn in 1440 - 1482. ... Events The São Tomé settlement is founded. ... Holstein (Hol-shtayn) (Low German: Holsteen, Danish: Holsten, Latin and historical English: Holsatia) is the southern part of Schleswig-Holstein in Germany, between the rivers Elbe and Eider. ... Events December 12 - Upon the death of Henry IV of Castile a civil war ensues between his designated successor Isabella I of Castile and her sister Juana who was supported by her husband, Alfonso V of Portugal. ... Members of the Royal Family on the balcony of Buckingham Palace after the Trooping the Colour ceremony The British Royal Family is a group of people closely related to the British monarch. ... Elizabeth II in an official portrait as Queen of Canada (on the occasion of her Golden Jubilee in 2002, wearing the Sovereigns badges of the Order of Canada and the Order of Military Merit) Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary) (born 21 April 1926), styled HM The... Look up queen in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Dieu et mon droit (motto) (French for God and my right)2 Northern Irelands location within the UK Main language English Other recognised languages Irish, Ulster Scots Capital and largest city Belfast First Minister Office suspended Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Peter Hain MP Area  - Total Ranked 4th... HRH Prince William of Wales William Arthur Philip Louis His Royal Highness Prince William of Wales (William Arthur Philip Louis Mountbatten-Windsor) (born June 21, 1982) is a member of the British Royal Family, grandson of Queen Elizabeth II and first son of Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales. ...

Male Line of Descendants

• Dietrich of Oldenburg
• Christian I of Denmark
• Frederick I of Denmark
• Christian III of Denmark
• Johann II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plon
• Alexander, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg
• August Philipp, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Beck
• Frederick Louis of Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck
• Peter August, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck
• Karl Anton August, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck
• Friedrich Karl Ludwig, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck
• Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg
• Christian IX of Denmark
• George I, King of the Hellenes
• Prince Andrew of Greece
• His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Philip
• His Royal Highness The Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall, Duke of Rothesay
• His Royal Highness The Prince William, Prince of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Dietrich therefore is fifteen times the great-grandfather of William, who is currently second in line for the British throne. Christian I of Denmark (1426 – 1481), Danish monarch and union king of Denmark (1448 – 1481), Norway (1450 – 1481) and Sweden (1457 – 1464), under the Kalmar Union. ... King Frederick I. Frederick I of Denmark and Norway (October 7, 1471 – April 10, 1533) was the son of the first Oldenburg King Christian I of Denmark, Norway and Sweden (1426-1481) and of Dorothea of Brandenburg (1430-1495). ... Christian III Christian III (August 12, 1503–January 1, 1559), king of Denmark and Norway, was the son of Frederick I of Denmark and his first consort, Anne of Brandenburg. ... Johann II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plon, was born on March 25, 1545 in Hadersleben. ... Alexander, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg, was born on January 20, 1573 in Sonderburg. ... August Philipp, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, was born on November 11, 1612 in Sonderborg. ... Frederick Louis of Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (German: ), Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, was born on April 6, 1653 in Beck. ... Peter August, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, was born on December 7, 1697. ... Karl Anton August, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, was born in Marburg on August 10, 1727. ... Friedrich Karl Ludwig, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (August 20, 1757 - April 24, 1816) , was the son of Karl Anton August, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, and Friederike von Dohna-Schlobitten. ... This page meets Wikipedias criteria for speedy deletion. ... Christian IX of Denmark (April 8, 1818 – January 29, 1906) was King of Denmark from November 15, 1863 to January 29, 1906. ... George I (December 24, 1845 – March 18, 1913) was King of the Hellenes (Greece) from 1863 to 1913. ... Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark (January 20, 1882 - December 3, 1944), of the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, was the son of George I (1845-1913), King of the Hellenes, and of Grand Duchess Olga Konstantinova (1851-1926) of Russia. ... The Duke of Edinburgh The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (Philip Mountbatten, formerly Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark) (born 10 June 1921, Greece) is the husband of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. ... For other people known as Charles, Prince of Wales, see Charles, Prince of Wales (disambiguation) His Royal Highness The Prince Charles, Prince of Wales KG, KT,GCB, OM,AK,QSO, PC, ADC, M.A., B.A. (Charles Philip Arthur George Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly Windsor), styled HRH The Prince Charles, Duke... Prince William redirects here. ... This article describes the British monarchy from the perspective of the United Kingdom. ...

Eventually, he would become the ancestor of every royal family in Europe through Christian I, Frederick I, Christian IX, and Alexandra of Denmark. This page is about the wife of Edward VII of the United Kingdom. ...

Notes

• Note 1: Alternate names include:
  • Medieval Latin: Teudericus de Oldenburg
  • Medieval Scandinavian: Didrik af Oldenborg
  • German: Dietrich von Oldenburg
  • Medieval French: Thierry d'Oldenbourg

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External links

• Photos from Oldenburg town museum