Christian V, Count of Oldenburg

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Christian V
Count of Oldenburg
Reign 1398–1423
Predecessor Count Conrad I of Oldenburg
Successor Count Christian VI
Spouse Agnes of Honstein
Issue
Count Dietrich of Oldenburg
House House of Oldenburg
Father Count Conrad I of Oldenburg
Mother Ingeborg of Brunswick
Born c. 1342
Died after 6 April 1399

Count Christian V of Oldenburg (some times called Christian VI; c. 1342 – after 6 April 1399) was the ruling count of Oldenburg from 1368 until 1398. He was born sometime before 1347 to Count Conrad I of Oldenburg and Ingeborg of Brunswick. After his father died in 1368, he ruled Oldenburg jointly with his elder brother Conrad II, and after Conrad II's deaths in 1386, with the latter's son Maurice II.

He married Agnes of Honstein, and the Danish Royal houses of Oldenburg and Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg descend from him via his son and successor Count Christian VI. Through the dynastic marriages of his descendants, he is an ancestor of many European Royal houses.

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Christian V, Count of Oldenburg
Born: c. 1342 Died: after 6 April 1399
Regnal titles
Preceded by
Conrad I
Count of Oldenburg
1368–1398
With: Conrad II
Succeeded by
Christian VI