Bernhard II of Ratzeburg
Bernhard II of Ratzeburg († 1198 in Ratzeburg ) from the Badwiden family was Count of Ratzeburg.
Bernhard, a son of Count Bernhard I von Ratzeburg , was initially intended for a career in the church and became a canon in Magdeburg , but then inherited his father after his two older brothers Volrad (around 1180) and Heinrich (around 1190) had fallen.
He married Adelheid von Wassel (* around 1175, † October 27, 1244). The couple had a son, Bernhard III. von Ratzeburg († 1199), who only survived his father by a little over a year. With him, the bathing house in the male line died out.
After the death of her husband, Adelheid married Count Adolf I von Dassel , who was enfeoffed with the County of Ratzeburg by Duke Bernhard I , but she passed her on to King Canute VI in May 1200 (or 1201) after the lost battle of Waschow . of Denmark lost.
literature
- Wilhelm Meyer: Bernhard II. 1190–1197 . In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Volume 76 (1911), pp. 50-56. ( Digitized version )
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| SURNAME | Bernhard II of Ratzeburg |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ratzeburg, Bernhard Graf von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Count of Ratzeburg |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 12th Century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1198 |
| Place of death | Ratzeburg |