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unusual facts about Christian III, Count of Oldenburg



Christian II, Duke of Saxe-Merseburg

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Christian III, Count of Oldenburg

Count Christian III of Oldenburg (first testified in 1269 in Oldenburg, – 1285 in Oldenburg) was a ruling Count of Oldenburg.

Maurice Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Merseburg

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Christian II died in 1717 and was succeeded by his son Christian III.

Ulrik Frederik Gyldenløve

His third wife was Countess Antoinette Augusta von Aldenburg (1660-1701), eldest daughter of Anton I, Count von Aldenburg und Knyphausen (by his first wife, Countess Auguste Johanna zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein), legitimated son of Anton Gunther, last of the independent Counts of Oldenburg, who belonged to the Delmenhorst cadet branch of the House of Oldenburg whose senior line became hereditary kings of Denmark.


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