Oldenburg County

The County of Oldenburg is a county of the Holy Roman Empire.

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• Capital City- Oldenburg
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• Current Ruler – Gerhard VI “the Quarrelsome”, Count of Oldenburg
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Important due to its location at a ford of the navigable Hunte river. Oldenburg is a small county in the shadow of the much more powerful Free Hanseatic City of Bremen.

The genealogy of the counts of Oldenburg was Huno of Rustringen. Huno’s descendants appear as vassals of the dukes of Saxony and were occasionally rebellious. They were given the title of princes of the Empire when the emperor Frederick I dismembered the Saxon duchy.

The northern and western parts of what would become the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg were in the hands of independent, or semi-independent, Frisian princes, who were usually pagan, and the counts of Oldenburg seized much of these lands in a series of wars. The Free Hanseatic City of Bremen and the bishop of Münster also frequently warred with the counts of Oldenburg.

The son and heir of Count Dietrich, named Christian but called Fortunatus, became king of Denmark as Christian I. Although far from the Danish borders, Oldenburg then became a Danish exclave. The control over the town was left to the king’s brothers, who have established a tyranny.

Two years ago Christian has become king of Norway so he handed over Oldenburg to his brother Gerhard, who is constantly warring with the bishop of Bremen and other neighbors.