Countship of Schackenborg

The Countship of Schackenborg was a Danish and for a period German majorat in the southern part of Jutland, which existed from 1676 to 1924.

History

Schackenborg Castle, photographed in 2006.

The Countship of Schackenborg was established on 23 June 1676 by King Christian V of Denmark for Otto Didrik Schack, a member of the noble family of Schack.^[1]^[2] It consisted of the manors of Schackenborg, Sødamgård, Solvig, and Store Tønde. The holder of the county carried the title of enfeoffed count (Danish: lensgreve).^[3]

The countship was inherited by members of the Schack family during its entire existence. It was dissolved in 1924.

Otto Didrik Schack, 1st Count of Schackenborg (1652–1683)
Hans Schack, 2nd Count of Schackenborg (1676–1719)
Otto Didrik Schack, 3rd Count of Schackenborg (1710–1741)
Hans Schack, 4th Count of Schackenborg (1734–1796)
Otto Didrik Schack, 5th Count of Schackenborg (1758–1809)
Hans Schack, 6th Count of Schackenborg (1786–1814)
Otto Didrik Schack, 7th Count of Schackenborg (1810–1856)
Hans Schack, 8th Count of Schackenborg (1852–1905)
Otto Didrik Schack, 9th Count of Schackenborg (1882–1924)^[4]^[5]

^ ^a ^b ^c Danmarks Adels Aarbog (1932), p. 62.
^ Danske Len (1916), p. 91.
^ Mikkelsen, Flemming; Kjeldstadli, Knut; Nyzell, Stefan (16 October 2017). Popular Struggle and Democracy in Scandinavia: 1700-Present. Springer. pp. 17, 18. ISBN 978-1-137-57855-6.
^ Raineval, Melville Henry Massue marquis de Ruvigny et; Raineval, Melville Henry Massue Marquis of Ruvigny and (1914). The Titled Nobility of Europe: An International Peerage, Or "Who's Who," of the Sovereigns, Princes, and Nobles of Europe. Burke's Peerage. p. 1318. ISBN 978-0-85011-028-9. Retrieved 14 April 2022.
^ Scandinavian Review. American-Scandinavian Foundation. 1920. p. 747. Retrieved 14 April 2022.

Danmarks Adels Aarbog 1932 (PDF) (in Danish). Copenhagen: J.H. Schultz. 1932.
Louis Bobé, Gustav Graae, Frederik Jürgensen West (1916). Danske Len (PDF) (in Danish). Copenhagen: J.H. Schultz.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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