Editing Holstein (section)

===County of Holstein===
[[File:Grafschaften Holstein Ratzeburg Schwerin Dannenberg Luechow 1250.png|250px|thumb|right|Undivided Holstein by 1250<ref group="note">Neighbours clockwise starting in the West: [[Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen]] (purple), Danish [[Schleswig]] (orange shadowed), [[Prince-Bishopric of Lübeck]] (purple), [[Free City of Lübeck|Free Imperial City of Lübeck]] (yellow), [[Duchy of Saxe-Lauenburg]] (green), [[Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg|Duchy of Brunswick and Lunenburg]] (pink).</ref>]]
[[File:Danish Conquest of Holstein 1201.png|left|thumb|Battle of Stellau and other Danish Campaigns of 1201]]
The new county of Holstein was established in 1111; it was first a fief of the [[Duchy of Saxony]]. After that, it belonged to the Duchy of [[Saxe-Lauenburg]], and finally it came into a possession of the [[Prince-Bishopric of Lübeck]]. 

With the establishment of the new territorial unit, expansion to the East began and the [[Wagrians]] were finally defeated in 1138.

The County of Holstein was ruled by the [[House of Schaumburg]]; the first count was [[Adolf I, Count of Holstein]]. 

Holstein was temporarily occupied by [[Denmark]] after the [[Battle of Stellau]] (1201), but was reconquered by the Count of Schauenburg and his allies in the [[Battle of Bornhöved (1227)]].