Gerhard VI of Oldenburg

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Count Gerhard VI "the Quarrelsome" of Oldenburg (German: Gerhard (Gerd) der Mutige von Oldenburg) (1430 – 22 February 1500) was a Count of Oldenburg and regent of Bad Zwischenahn in 1440 - 1482.

Gerhard was the third son of Count Dietrich of Oldenburg and his wife Helvig of Schauenburg. In 1440 - 1463 he ruled in Delmenhorst as regent and in 1464 - 1482 (after the death of his brother Maurice) as the guardian of his nephew Jakob. He was constantly at war with the bishop of Bremen and Frisians. In 1483 Gerhard was compelled to abdicate in favor of his sons, and he died whilst on a pilgrimage in the Rhône river valley.

[edit] Family and children

In 1453 he married with Adelheid of Tecklenburg (ca. 1435 – 2 March 1477), daughter of Count Otto VIII of Tecklenburg. They had eleven children:

1. Gerhard (1454 – 1470)
2. Dietrich (ca. 1456 – 1463)
3. Adolph (1458 – 17 February 1500)
4. Christian (1459 – 27 May 1492)
5. John (1460 – 10 February 1526)
6. Otto (d. 17 February 1500), a canon in Bremen
7. Elisabeth (1468 – 12 September 1505)
8. Anna (1469 – 26 September 1505)
9. Irmgard, married to Hero Ommeken zu Esens
10. Hedwig (d. 22 February 1502, married in 1498 to Edo Wimken II zu Jever
11. Adelheid (d. 1513), married in 1503 to Dietrich III von Plesse

Preceded by Dietrich

Count of Oldenburg 14440–1483

Succeeded by Adolph