- Adolf I of Holstein
Adolf I (died
13 November 1130 ) was the firstCount of Schauenberg from 1106 and the secondCount of Holstein from 1111. He made an important contribution to the colonisation and Germanisation of the lands north of theElbe .He was appointed to hold as fiefs Holstein and
Stomarm , includingHamburg , byLothair, Duke of Saxony , in 1111. By this appointment Adolf became the leader of the defence of Germany against theWagri . Allied with Henry, the prince of theObotrites , he repeatedly waged war on Wagri and theRugia ns. After Henry's death (1127), Adolf remained allied with his sons Canute and Sventepolk, but they were soon dead and Lothair, by thenKing of Germany , had madeCanute Lavard , a Danish prince,Duke of Schleswig . Feeling his authority threatened by the Danish upstart, Adolf attacked his castle ofAlbergs , captured the garrison, and destroyed its defences. He left his counties intact to his second son, Adolf II, since his eldest, Hartung, had been killed in theSecond Battle of Chlumec in 1126.ources
* [http://de.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=ADB:Adolf_I._%28Graf_von_Holstein%29&oldid=185137 "Adolf I. (Graf von Holstein)."] "Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie" by the Historischen Kommission of the Bayrischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Volume 1, from page 105, Digitale Volltext-Ausgabe in Wikisource (retrieved 10 July 2007, 18:09 UTC).
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