Category:Dukes of Holstein-Gottorp
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This page lists the members of important cadet (Junior ducal) branch of the house of Oldenburg that held about one third of the two border territories—the Duchy of Schleswig under the Danish throne, and the German Duchy of Holstein, which are known to history as either the Dukes of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp or Dukes of Holstein-Gottorp after the famous and fabulous palace that became the junior dynasties seat in the City of Schleswig, Schleswig-Holstein.
- Their reign lasted from the Late Middle Ages into modern times, and included two Tsars of Russia.
- As the second or junior Dukes of Dukes of Schleswig-Holstein, historians and their contemporaries permuted the names to avoid confusion between the senior and junior cousins, who were more often than not, rivals and at odds in political and diplomatic matters.
