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Conrad I, Count of Oldenburg

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Reign
  
1344–1367

Name
  
Conrad Count

Predecessor
  
John III

Role
  
Prince

Successor
  
Conrad II

Died
  
1367, Germany

Noble family
  
House of Oldenburg


Spouse(s)
  
Ingeborg of Holstein-Plon

Father
  
John II, Count of Oldenburg

Parents
  
John II, Count of Oldenburg

Children
  
Christian V, Count of Oldenburg

Grandchildren
  
Dietrich, Count of Oldenburg

Grandparents
  
Christian III, Count of Oldenburg

Great-grandparents
  
John I, Count of Oldenburg

Conrad I of Oldenburg (German: Konrad I. von Oldenburg; died 1367) was the Count of Oldenburg from 1344 to 1367. He succeeded his brother, John III of Oldenburg.

He was the son of John II of Oldenburg and Hedwig of Diepholz. Conrad married Ingeborg, the daughter of Count Gerhard IV of Holstein-Plön. They had four children:

  • Conrad II, Count of Oldenburg (d. 1401)
  • Gerard of Oldenburg (died 1368); killed in action while invading Rüstringen.
  • Agnes of Oldenburg; married Count Ludwig von Winstorf
  • Christian V, Count of Oldenburg

    • Conrad I of Oldenburg is also a male-line ancestor of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark and of Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and thus of Charles, Prince of Wales.

    References

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