House of Oldenbourg

The house of Oldenbourg is a family which currently reigns on the Denmark (since 1448) and on the Norway (since 1905), and which reigned formerly on the Russia (of 1796 with 1917), on the Greece (of 1863 with 1974), on the Sweden (of 1751 with 1818), on the Grand Duchy of Oldenbourg (of 1829 with 1918), etc

After Elisabeth II of the United Kingdom the British crown should pass from the house of Wettin to the house of Oldenbourg, in the person of Charles, prince de Galles. The British royal family chose the name of Windsor in 1917.

Family tree of the house

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Christian I von Oldenburg (1143-1167), † 1167 X Kunigunde NR | |- >Moritz I von Oldenburg (1167-1211) | X Salome von Wickerode | | | |- >Christian II von Oldenburg (1211-1251) | X Agnes von Altena | | | |- >Otto, Abbot in Bremen | |- >Johann I von Oldenburg (1251-1272) | X Richeza von Hoya | | | |- >Christian III von Oldenburg | X Hedwig von Oldenburg | X Jutta von Bentheim | | | |- >Johann II von Oldenburg (1278 - 1305), † 1314/1315; | | X Elisabeh off Braunschweig-Lüneburg | | X Hedwig von Diepholz | | | | | |- >Christian IV | | | X Unknown factor | | | | | | | |- >Jutta (Prioress with Blankenburg) | | | | | |- >Johann III von Oldenburg (1301/1305 - 1344) | | | X Mechtild von Bronckhorst | | | |- >Johann | | | | X Unknown factor | | | | | | | | | |- >Otto | | | | |- >Konrad | | | | | | | |- >Otto | | | |- >Wilhelm | | | |- >Christian | | | | | |- >Konrad I von Oldenburg (1344 - 1367/1368) | | | X Ingeborg d' Holstein | | | | | | | |- >Konrad II von Oldenburg (1368 - 1386) | | | | X Kunigunde NR | | | | | | | | | |- >Johann | | | | |- >Moritz IV von Oldenburg (1386 - 1420) | | | | | X Elisabeth de Braunschweig-Lüneburg | | | | | | | | | | | |- >Johann | | | | | |- >Ingeborg (bride with Otto ten Brock, Lord d' Aurich) | | | | | | | | | |- >Jutta | | | | |- >Kunigunde (bride with Johann von Diepholz) | | | | | | | |- >Gerhard | | | |- >Christian V von Oldenburg (1398 - 1423) | | | | X Agnes von Honstein | | | | | | | | | |- >Dietrich von Oldenburg (1423 - 1440/1444) | | | | | X Adelheid von Oldenburg-Delmenhorst | | | | | X Hedwig off Schleswig and Holstein | | | | | | | | | | | |- >Christian von Oldenburg (1448 - 1481) which will become Christian I of Denmark, Norway and Sweden. | | | | | | X Dorothea de Brandenburg | | | | | | | | | | | | | |- >Olaf | | | | | | |- >Knut | | | | | | |- >Johan I of Denmark and Sweden | | | | | | X Christine of Saxony | | | | | | | | | | | | | |- >Johan (death in old bottom) | | | | | | |- >Ernst (death in old bottom) | | | | | | |- >Christian II of Denmark and Sweden | | | | | | | X Infant Isabelle of Spain | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |- >Johan (21.2.1518/2.7.1532) | | | | | | | |- >Maximilian | | | | | | | |- >Philipp | | | | | | | |- >Dorothea (bride with Friedrich II von der Pfalz) | | | | | | | |- >Christine (bride with Francesco II Sforza, duke of Milan then to the Duke François I of Lorraine) | | | | | | | | | | | | | |- >Franz | | | | | | |- >Elisabeth (bride with Joachim I Nestor, Voter of Brandenbourg) | | | | | | | | | | | |- >Moritz V von Delmenhorst | | | | | X Katharina von Hoya | | | | | | | | | | | |- > Jakob | | | | | |- >Hedwig (nun in Blankenburg) | | | | | |- >Adelheid (nun in Bersen | | | | | | | | | |- >Christian | | | | | | | |- >Agnes (bride with Ludolf von Wunstorf) | | | | | |- >Moritz | | |- >Gisela (bride with Gerhard III von Hoya) | | | |- >Christian | |- >Otto, archbishop of Bremen | |- >Christian, † 1192

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