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unusual facts about Gerhard II, Count of Holstein-Plön



Boris Souvarine

Chroniques du mensonge communiste, textes chosen by Branko Lazitch and Pierre Rigoulot, Plon.

Christian II, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg

In Ahrensbök on 28 February 1625 Christian married his cousin Eleonore Sophie (b. Sonderburg, 14 February 1603 - d. Ballenstedt, 5 January 1675), daughter of John II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön, by his second wife Agnes Hedwig of Anhalt (sister of his father Christian I) and also by birth a princess of Denmark as a granddaughter in the male line of King Christian III.

Counts of Schauenburg and Holstein

After Gerhard I's death in 1290 his three younger sons partitioned Holstein-Itzehoe and Schaumburg into three branches, with Adolph VI the Elder, the third brother, getting Holstein-Pinneberg and Schaumburg south of the Elbe, the second brother Gerhard II the Blind getting Holstein-Plön, and the fourth Henry I receiving Holstein-Rendsburg.

Ernest Frederick I, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen

# Ludwig Frederick (b. Hildburghausen, 11 September 1710 – d. Nimwegen, 10 June 1759), married on 4 May 1749 to Christine Luise von Holstein-Plön.

Frederick Albert, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg

In Augustenburg on 4 June 1763 Frederick Albert married Louise Albertine (b. Plön, 21 July 1748 - d. Ballenstedt, 2 March 1769), daughter of Frederick Carl, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön and a princess of Denmark by birth as a descendant in the male line of King Christian III.

Frederick Charles, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön

Others no longer exist (of particular note is the ducal summer residence in Traventhal, demolished in the nineteenth century).

Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster

Europa und die deutsche Frage : eine Deutung und ein Ausblick. Vita-Nova-Verlag, Luzern 1937, published by Plon in 1937 in Paris as L' Europe et la question allemande with a foreword from André Chaumeix; and in 1940-41 in New York and London as Europe and the German Question. from Sheed & Ward and Allen & Unwin respectively.

Jean-Pierre Maïone-Libaude

Lucien Aimé-Blanc and Jean-Michel Caradec'h, L'Indic et le Commissaire, Plon, 2006, 246 pages

Joachim Ernest, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön

In addition to the new residence town of Plön his estate included Ahrensbök and Reinfeld.

John Adolphus, also known as Hans Adolf (b 1634; d 1704), Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön, married Dorothea of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

John Adolf, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp

# Dorothea Auguste (12 May 1602 – 13 March 1682), married in 1633 to Joachim Ernest, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön.

John Adolphus, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön

Duke John Adolphus died on 2 July 1704 in Ruhleben, a few days after his son, Adolphus Augustus, had been killed in a riding accident.

He was born on 8 April 1634 in Ahrensbök, the eldest son of the first Duke of Plön, Joachim Ernest and Dorothea Augusta of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp.

John III, Count of Holstein-Plön

However by 1332 he lost Scania which rebelled against the German rule submitting to the Swedish king.

Nicole Valéry Grossu

Bénie sois-tu, prison (English: Blessed be you, prison), Plon, Paris - this is the most popular of her works; it was initially published in French by the Plon Publishing House, and was eventually translated into several languages.

Plön

In 1075, Kruto lured Budivoj of the Nakonids into the "castrum plunense" (according to Helmold of Bosau), laid siege to him, and then once Budivoj's men had given themselves up after Kruto's promises to let them withdraw freely, Kruto had them slain.

Prince Eitel Friedrich of Prussia

Raised at the cadet corps of Plön Castle, Prince Eitel was in the front line from the beginning of World War I and was wounded at Bapaume, where he commanded the Prussian First Foot Guards.

Rochus von Liliencron

Rochus Wilhelm Traugott Heinrich Ferdinand Freiherr von Liliencron (b. 8 December 1820 in Plön, d. 5 March 1912 in Koblenz) was a Germanist and historian, known for his collection of German Volkslieder (folk songs), published in five volumes in 1865-1869, and as the editor of the biographical reference work Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, published 1875-1912.

Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival

Concerts are in arrange in the cities Lübeck, Kiel, Flensburg and the smaller towns of the state like Eutin or Plön, as well as in the countryside in castles, manors, old barns or little Brick Gothic village churches.

Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg

His domain included inter alia the territories of Sonderburg, Norburg, Ærø, Plön and Ahrensbök together with their assigned Ämter or administrative offices.

The seat of the duke was Sonderburg, but parts of the domain were located in Denmark (in the Duchy of Schleswig), mainly on the islands of Als and Ærø and around Glücksburg, whilst other lands were part of the Holy Roman Empire (in the Duchy of Holstein), including the Ämter of Plön, Ahrensbök, and Reinfeld.

Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön

The territorial centres of Schleswig-Holstein-Plön were the districts (Ämter) of Ahrensbök and Reinfeld established after the Reformation by the merging of the former abbeys at Ahrensbök and Reinfeld.

The possessions were confiscated, and Plön's castles at Reinfeld, Ahrensbök and Rethwisch were demolished.

In 1671 there was a further division of assets after the death of Duke Joachim Ernest, and the Duchy of Rethwisch was created around the place of the same name under his second son, Duke Joachim Ernest; this reverted to the line of the first born in 1729.

Schwentinental

Schwentinental is a town in the district of Plön, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Tingsted

In 1329, King Christopher II concluded an agreement with Marsk Ludvig Eberstein, head of the armed forces, after his surrender at Hammershus and in 1329 made peace with Count Johann of Holstein.

Treaty of Ribe

Their united forces formed a very respectable array, and they took and destroyed a number of towns, and had recovered a great part of the County of Holstein, when they were opposed by Schauenburg Count Adolf IV of Holstein, who had been joined by his liege lord Albert I, Duke of Saxony and Prince-Archbishop Gerhard II of Bremen.

Vivian Fuchs

He governed the Plön district in Schleswig-Holstein until October 1946, when he was discharged from military service with the rank of Major.

Wichard von Alvensleben

In August 1946 Alvensleben married Astrid von Brand (widowed von Brockdorff-Ahlefeldt) and in 1952 he became an administrator of the von Brockdorff estate Ascheberg near Plön.

Wisch

Wisch, Plön, a municipality in the district of Plön, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany


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