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Helvig of Schauenburg, also known as Hedwig of Schauenburg, (1398-1436) was a countess of Schleswig and Holstein from the family of Schauenburg. Image File history File links Please see the file description page for further information. ... Hedwig of Schauenburg was the sister of Adolf VIII of Schleswig-Holstein and the mother of Christian I of Denmark. ... Events Glendalough monastery, Wicklow Ireland destroyed. ... Events April - Paris is recaptured by the French End of the Hussite Wars in Bohemia. ... The region of Schleswig (former English name: Sleswick, Danish: Sønderjylland or Slesvig, Low German: Sleswig, North Frisian: Slaswik or Sleesweg) covers the area about 60 km north and 70 km south of the border between Germany and Denmark. ... 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. ... Schloss ruine Schauenburg is a ruined castle on the near the borders of France and Germany, it is in the commune of Liestal, Switzerland. ...
She was a daughter of Count Gerhard IV of Holstein and his wife Elisabeth of Braunschweig. Her brother was Count Adolf VIII of Schleswig-Holstein. On 18 April1417 Helvig was married to Prince Balthasar of Mecklenburg, who died of the plague in 1421. In 1423 she was married to Count Dietrich of Oldenburg. The children from this marriage inherited the counties of Schleswig and Holstein. Adolf von Schauenburg, born 1401, died 4 December 1459, Duke of Southern Jutland (in Danish, Sonderjylland), i. ... April 18 is the 108th day of the year (109th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Events Antipope Benedict XIII is deposed, and Pope Martin V is elected. ... The bubonic plague (more properly Bubonic Fever -- a plague is an epidemic ) is the best-known variant of the deadly infectious disease caused by the enterobacteria Yersinia pestis. ... Events July 31 - Hundred Years War: Battle of Cravant - The French army is defeated at Cravant on the banks of the river Yonne. ... Derrick or Dietrich of Oldenburg, latin-based anglicization also Theoderic of Oldenburg (c. ...
His mother was his father's second wife, Hedwig of Schleswig and Holstein (Helvig of Schauenburg) (died 1436).
(Christian's mother Hedwig of Schauenburg was a descendant, and in her issue the heiress-general, of Ingeborg of Mecklenburg, a daughter of Euphemia of Sweden (Duchess consort of Mecklenburg), and thus sister of King Albrecht of Sweden (Albert of Mecklenburg).
There would have been several genealogically senior claimants of Holstein, but Christian was nephew of the incumbent, the closest relative to that very branch which had lived longest and acquired most fiefs.
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