THE WORLD ATLAS

Realm · approximate borders · 1180–1667

County of Oldenburg

The county on the Hunte and the Jade, held by the House of Oldenburg, whose Christian I became king of Denmark in 1448. Delmenhorst was ruled by a branch line and Jever was added in 1575.

When Anton Günther died in 1667 it passed to the Danish crown. Its first counts date from c. 1100.

See County of Oldenburg on the map in 1180

On the map
1180–1667
Capital
Oldenburg

Rulers named in the sources

Western and central European states, 430–1956

States of western and central Europe: the Irish kingdoms of Meath, Osraige, Breifne, Thomond, Desmond and Tyrconnell, Pictish Fortriu, the Welsh kingdoms of Dyfed, Ceredigion and Deheubarth, Elmet, the taifas of Málaga, Majorca and Menorca, the prince-bishoprics of Liège and Utrecht, Guelders, Brabant, Namur, Limburg, Luxembourg, Cleves and Jülich, Bar and Provence, the Electoral Palatinate, Mainz, Hesse, the Welf principalities, Württemberg, Baden, Ansbach, Bayreuth, Nuremberg, Salzburg, Meissen, Saxe-Wittenberg, Saxe-Lauenburg, Oldenburg and Pomerania, the Visconti, Gonzaga, Este, Montefeltro and Appiani states, Siena, Lucca and Gaeta, and in the 20th century the four occupation zones of Germany, the Saar Protectorate and the Free Territory of Trieste.

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