Jobst I, Count of Holstein-Schauenburg

Jobst I, Count of Holstein-Schauenburg (1483-1531) was a German nobleman. He was the ruling Count of Schauenburg and Holstein-Pinneberg from 1527 until his death. He was a son of John IV (1449 – 30 March 1527) and his wife, Cordula of Gemen (d. 30 May 1528).

Marriage and issue In 1506, he married Mary of Nassau-Siegen (1491-1547), a daughter of Count John V of Nassau-Siegen. Among their children were: Otto, died young Adolph III, Elector and Archbishop of Cologne from 1547 to 1556 Anton, Elector and Archbishop of Cologne from 1556 to 1558 John V ( – 1560), Count of Holstein-Schauenburg from 1531, married in 1555 to Countess Elisabeth of East Frisia (1531-1558) Cordula (1516-1542), married: on 8 April 1529 to Count Everwin of Bentheim (1461-13 December 1530) in 1536 to Count Gumprecht II of Neuenahr-Alpen Otto IV (1517-1576), co-ruler from 1531 to 1560, ruling Count of Holstein-Schauenburg from 1560 Jobst II ( – 1581), ruling Lord of Gemen from 1531, married in 1561 to Elisabeth of Palland (d. 1606) William II (d. 1580), Provost of Hildesheim