Engelbert I. (mountain)

Engelbert I. von Berg (* unknown; documented 1152–1189; † beginning of July 1189 in Kubin (Serbian Kovin ) in the Banat , today Serbia ) was Count von Berg from 1161 to 1189 .

Life

Engelbert was a son of Adolf II von Berg from the Berg-Altena dynasty and his second wife Irmgard von Schwarzenburg. When Engelbert's father went to the Altenberg monastery as a monk in 1160 , he divided the county between his two sons Engelbert and Eberhard . The latter was the older of the two and received the Westphalian territories with Altena Castle , later the county of Mark . Engelbert, on the other hand, received the Rhenish areas with Burg Castle , the county of Berg. Engelbert is documented as Count von Berg from 1165.

Engelbert married Magarethe, daughter of Heinrich I von Geldern , by 1175 at the latest , and had the following children with her:

• Adolf (* 1175 at the latest, † August 7, 1218 during the Fifth Crusade near Damiette / Egypt), Count von Berg from 1189 to 1218
• Engelbert (born November 8, 1185, † November 7, 1225 near Gevelsberg), after various provost positions from 1216 to 1225 Archbishop of Cologne
• a daughter unknown by name (possibly named Gisela), who can be traced back to 1225 as a nun in the Oelinghausen monastery near Arnsberg.

Through his loyalty to Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa and the Archbishops of Cologne, he succeeded in stabilizing the county and increasing the income. He expanded his possessions to include the castles of Bensberg , Neu-Windeck and Elberfeld . In spring 1189 Engelbert received from nobleman Arnold von Teveren his entire property on the right bank of the Rhine in Holthausen, Düsseldorf, Buscherhof, Eickenberg near Millrath, Monheim, Himmelgeist, on the banks of the Rhine near Holthausen and on the Anger for 100 marks as a deposit. The deposit was never redeemed. Engelbert succeeded in significantly rounding off the county of Berg in the north. Shortly afterwards, in May 1189, he set out on the Third Crusade in the army of Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa . The journey took them along the Danube across the Balkans . Engelbert died in early July 1189 near Kubin in Serbia, near the then Hungarian-Byzantine border. He was the second of the family after his brother Adolf , who died on a crusade. With the death of Engelbert's sons, Count Adolf III., Who fell on the Fifth Crusade in 1218, and Engelbert, who as Engelbert I was Archbishop of Cologne and was killed in an attack near Gevelsberg in 1225, his male family died out.

literature

• Alexander Berner: Engelbert (before 1140-1189), Count von Berg (reigned shortly after 1160-1189) , Landschaftsverband Rheinland, Portal Rheinische Geschichte (November 24, 2016).
• Alexander Berner: Crusade and regional rule. The older counts of Berg 1147–1225. Böhlau, Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-412-22357-1 .
• Thomas R. Kraus : The emergence of the sovereignty of the counts of Berg up to the year 1225 (= Bergische research. Volume 16). Ph. CW Schmidt, Neustadt ad Aisch 1980, ISBN 3-87707-024-8 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ LVR. In: Portal Rhenish History. Section: Engelbert (before 1140-1189) ( online ).
2. ^ Theodor Joseph Lacomblet : Document book for the history of the Lower Rhine. Volume 1: 779-1200. Düsseldorf 1840, p. 364, no.521 ( digitized version ).
3. ^ Arnold Bühler: The crusade of Friedrich Barbarossa. Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2005, ISBN 3-7995-0612-8 , p. 83.

predecessor	Office	successor
Adolf II	Count of Berg 1161–1189	Adolf III.