Henry IV (Limburg)
Heinrich IV. Of Limburg (* approx. 1200; † February 25, 1246 ) was Lord of Monschau from 1221 , ruled the County of Berg from 1225 to 1246 , was Duke of Limburg-Nieder-Lothringen and Vogt of Deutz from 1226 .
Life
He was the eldest son of Duke Walram IV of Limburg and Lower Lorraine and Kunigunde von Monschau. His brothers were Walram Herr von Monschau and Poilvache , Heinrich V. Graf von Luxemburg and Gerhard Graf von Durbuy .
Through his marriage in 1217 to Irmgard von Berg , he was the son-in-law of Adolf III. von Berg († 1218). Due to the violent death of Archbishop Engelbert I of Cologne in 1225, he took over the rule of the County of Berg, which his wife Irmgard had claimed as part of Adolf's heir in 1218, but Adolf's brother Engelbert had taken over the rule.
His sister Sophie von Limburg was married to Friedrich von Isenberg († 1226). Count Friedrich led an opposition movement of the Westphalian nobility against the Archbishop of Cologne, Count Engelbert von Berg. The opposition led to Engelbert's manslaughter in 1225 in a forest path near Gevelsberg . Duke Heinrich supported his nephew Dietrich von Altena-Isenberg in his efforts to gain part of his father's inheritance in the dispute with Count Adolf I von der Mark until 1243 .
Heinrich was a loyal supporter of the Hohenstaufen . He commanded the army of Frederick II on the Fifth Crusade from 1228 to 1229 to Jerusalem .
He made peace with his main liege, Archbishop Konrad von Hochstaden , in 1243 and was then part of the papal camp.
His children were Walram V. († October 14, 1279) and Adolf IV. Graf von Berg († 1259).
literature
- Heinrich Neu: Heinrich IV., Duke of Limburg, Count von Berg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , p. 367 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Nicolas van Werveke : Heinrich IV., Duke of Limburg . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1880, p. 532 f.
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Engelbert II. |
Count of Berg 1225–1246 |
Adolf IV |
| Walram IV. |
Duke of Limburg 1226–1246 |
Walram V. |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Henry IV. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Henry IV of Limburg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Count von Berg and Duke of Limburg-Nieder-Lothringen |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1200 |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 25, 1246 |