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The County of East Frisia (/ ˈ f r iː ʒ ə /; Frisian: Greefskip Eastfryslân; Dutch: Graafschap Oost-Friesland) was a county (though ruled by a prince after 1662) in the region of East Frisia in the northwest of the present-day German state of Lower Saxony.
The Concordat of Emden in 1599 set rules for the cooperation of Lutherans and Calvinists in the county of East Frisia. Since then it is a special feature of the Protestant Landeskirchen in East Frisia, that Lutherans and Calvinists are members of each other's local church communities in places, where only one of both exists. [9]
County of East Frisia: Unmarried: 17 April 1628 Hage aged 25: Half-brother of Sabina Catharina, inherited the main county of East Frisia. Left no descendants. The county passed to his brother. Ulrich II: 6 July 1605 Aurich Second son of Enno III and Anna of Holstein-Gottorp: 17 April 1628 – 1 November 1648: County of East Frisia: Juliana of ...
West Frisia, the region from the Scheldt to the Vlie roughly the modern region of Holland conquered in 719; Middle Frisia, the region from the Vlie to the Lauwers roughly the modern territory of the province Friesland conquered in 734; East Frisia, the region from the Lauwers to the Weser conquered in 775; It is further divided in Gaue
With that, the county was born. A year later, on 1 October 1464, the County of East Frisia was founded. With this, the short-lived existence of the County of Norden came to an end. Only between 1661 and 1668 did it serve as an appanage for Edzard Ferdinand of East Frisia, the third son of Ulrich II of East Frisia.
The organization consists of three regional councils or "sections": North Frisia, East Frisia and West Frisia. Every three years, the presidency of the Interfrisian Council is handed over to another section. The council was established in 1956.
Johan I of East Frisia (1506–1572) was a member of the house of Cirksena and a non-reigning Count of East Frisia and later imperial governor of Limburg.His father, Edzard the Great, had introduced primogeniture in the county of East Frisia, so that his older brother Enno II of East Frisia inherited the county alone and he had to hold back.
Ulrich I of East Frisia was the first count of East Frisia, from 1408 in Norden to 25 or 26 September 1466, in Emden. He was a son of the chieftain Enno Edzardisna of Norden and Greetsiel , and Gela of Manslagt .