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    Johan (also Johann) Rantzau (12 November 1492 – 12 December 1565) was a German-Danish general and statesman known for his role in the Count's Feud. His...
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    (Helsingborgs slott), a castle in Helsingborg. Frederick's general, Johann Rantzau, moved his army to Scania and defeated the peasants soundly in April...
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    Utenhof (ca. 1495–1542) and his Lutheran tutor, the military general Johann Rantzau (1492–1565), were both zealous reformers who had an influence on the...
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    grandson of Paul, the youngest son of Johann Rantzau. He married his Cousin Hedwig Margarethe Elisabeth vor Rantzau, but had no children. As a young man...
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    (Trinity's Church), Johann Friedrich moved with them. He was soon employed as a public doctor in Altona, in the estate of Count Rantzau, and in the Pinneberg...
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    son, also named Christian, raised an army in Holstein which, led by Johann Rantzau, took in turn Holstein, Jutland and Zeeland in a series of brilliant...
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    would be scattered by a storm. In the Holsteinian-Imperial border, Johann Rantzau prevented an invasion from Germany. A peace treaty was signed, between...
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  • would be scattered by a storm. In the Holsteinian-Imperial border, Johann Rantzau prevented an invasion from Germany. Though the greatest effect was done...
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    kidnapping victim. Balthasar Rantzau came from the Holstein noble family Rantzau. He was the son of the bailiff Hans Rantzau (1452–1522) on Gut Neuhaus...
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    Schack Carl, rigsgreve (von) Rantzau or Carl Schack Rantzau-Ascheberg (11 March 1717, Ascheberg estate, Holstein – 21 January 1789, Menerbes, France) was...
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  • trounced at Mount Ochsenberg, near Assens, by a Danish army led by Johann Rantzau. John VII fell in that battle, as did many other noblemen, among them...
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    1523/45–1550: Johan Rantzau 1550–1556: Count Bertram von Ahlefeldt 1556–1598: Heinrich Rantzau 1598–1600: vacancy? 1600–1627: Gert Rantzau (1558–1627) 1627–1647:...
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    died in 1959, whereupon his daughter, Lieselotte von Rantzau inherited it. Frau Liselotte von Rantzau died in 1993, and since such time it has been owned...
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  • von Plessen Bent Mejding as Count Johann Hartwig Ernst von Bernstorff Thomas W. Gabrielsson as Schack Carl Rantzau Søren Spanning as Münster John Martinus...
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    In early January, a former supporter of Struensee, Count Schack Carl Rantzau, discontented with the fact that Struensee did not accept his political...
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    1427 as Dodelinghe. It was owned by Bordesholm Monastery, from which Johann Rantzau bought it in 1526. From 1890 to 1938 the village belonged to the district...
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  • Sophie, (1616–1635) was born at Copenhagen Castle where Rantzau was sheriff. In 1621, Rantzau was appointed General Commissioner of war for Danish troops...
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    August Adolph von Hennings (19 July 1746, Pinneberg – 17 May 1826, Rantzau) was a politician, publicist and writer of the Age of Enlightenment, born into...
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  • 1545–1550: Johan Rantzau 1550–1556: Count Bertram von Ahlefeldt 1556–1598: Heinrich Rantzau 1598–1600: vacancy? 1600–1627: Geerd Rantzau (1558–1627) 1627–1647:...
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    November 1643 between the French army in Germany led by Marshal Josias Rantzau, composed of French soldiers and the so called Weimarans or Bernhardines...
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  • catalogus-professorum-halensis.de. Retrieved 2021-09-27. "Ulrich, count von Brockdorff-Rantzau | German foreign minister". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2021-09-27...
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    Hereditary Prince of Denmark Johann Friedrich Struensee Peter Elias von Gähler Christine Sophie von Gähler Schack Carl Rantzau-Ascheberg Caroline Schimmelmann...
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    Friedrich von Ahlefeldt and his first wife Countess Margarethe Dorothea zu Rantzau (1642-1665). They had eight daughters: Dorothea Friederike (1681–1691)...
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    religious autonomy by the successful invasion commanded by Count Johan Rantzau from Steinburg, one of the best strategists of the time [citation needed]...
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    (1516-1580), historian and humanist, He coined the term Byzantium Heinrich Rantzau (1526-1598), humanist Nicolaus Reimers (1551-1600), astronomer, mathematician...
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    Johann Albert Heinrich Reimarus (11 November 1729 – 6 June 1814) was a German physician, natural historian and economist. He was the son of Hermann Samuel...
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    difficulties. The project was taken over by Countess Anna Sophie Schack née Rantzau and her step-grandson Count Hans Schack. A fire shortly after the change...
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    acquired by Breide Rantzau in exchange for other land. He placed it under the much larger Svanholm estate. After Breide Rantzau's death in 1618, Lindholm...
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    Mengersen-Robiano, Nostitz, Piatti, Plettenberg, Praschma, Preysing, Rantzau, Reischach, Rex, Salis, Saurma, Seherr-Thoß, Spee, Strachwitz, Sztáray...
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    halved John's share among themselves. Adolf travelled, entrusting Johan Rantzau to manage his country. Adolf participated in the Diet of Augsburg where...
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