County of Oldenburg

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Was a state in the north-west of present-day Germany. The counts of Oldenburg died out in 1667, after which it became a duchy until its dissolution during the Napoleonic wars.

Establishment

January 1182: County of Oldenburg gains imperial immediacy.

Chronology

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1. Crusades

The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Latin Church in the Medieval period. The best known of these military expeditions are those to the Holy Land in the period between 1095 and 1291.

1.1.Stedinger Crusade

Was a Papally-sanctioned war against the rebellious peasants of Stedingen, in the Archibishopric of Bremen.

January 1205: In 1204, the Stedinger north of the Hunte rebelled against the count of Oldenburg, burning to the ground two of his castles. Their revolt spread south of the Hunte, where the archbishop's ministerials were driven off.

January 1235: The archbishop of Bremen mobilized his church and the Papacy to have a crusade sanctioned against the rebels of Stedingen. In the first campaign, the small crusading army was defeated. In a follow-up campaign the next year, a much larger crusader army was victorious.

2. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)

January 1200: Bruchhausen County is partitioned from Wildeshausen.

January 1271: In 1270 the settlement of Wildeshausen belonged to the Archbishopric of Bremen.

January 1302: The last count was Otto von Wölpe (1258-1307), who had entered the clergy. He had no male heirs and sold the county of Wölpe to Count Otto von Oldenburg-Delmenhorst in 1301.

January 1303: The County of Wölpe was to Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg Otto the Strict in 1302 for 6,500 silver marks.

January 1478: Based on Gustav Droysen's Map of the Holy Roman Empire in the XV century.

January 1483: The city of Delmenhorst fell under Munster rule.

January 1548: Count Anton I of Oldenburg recaptured the castle and county of Delmenhorst.

January 1576: The Jever Lordship is annexed by Oldenburg.

January 1654: Establishment of the Kniphausen Lordship.

June 1667: In 1667, after Count Anton Günther of Oldenburg died without heirs, the territory passed under Danish rule.

August 1773: Treaty of Tsarskoye Selo 1773.

December 1774: Oldenburg is raised to duchy.