Irmgard von Berg

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Irmgard von Berg (* 1204 at the latest; † 11-13 August 1248 or 1249) was the daughter of Count Adolf III. von Berg and his wife Bertha.

history

It is not known how many children Adolf III. would have. Irmgard von Berg was probably his only, or at least the only, child who survived his death, because she was married to Duke Heinrich von Limburg at the latest in 1216 , to whom she inherited the county of Berg. Taking into account an early marriage of Adolf III. be born in 1204 at the latest. Irmgard is last attested alive for October 1247. After the death of Duke Heinrich in 1246, her son Adolf IV took over the rule in the county of Berg . In a contract between her and her son dated “16. Fallow month (June) 1247 “the properties to which she was entitled in the county of Berg were listed until her death in 1247/48. Her son Adolf donated an anniversary to her on January 2nd, 1250 under August 13th. In memory books, however, the day of her death is mentioned as August 11 or 12.

In 1216, Archbishop Engelbert I of Cologne (also known as Engelbert the Holy) and his brother Adolf III considered divorcing Irmgard and Heinrich for political reasons on the pretext of being too close. Both were in fact related in the fourth degree.

literature

  • Wilhelm Idel : Irmgard von Berg. Dramatic poem. Baedeker, Elberfeld 1903.
  • Thomas R. Kraus : The emergence of the sovereignty of the counts of Berg up to the year 1225 (= Bergische Forschungen. Volume 16; at the same time: Bochum, Univ., Dept. for History, Diss., 1977/78). Schmidt, Neustadt an der Aisch 1981, ISSN  0405-4520 , pp. 48-49, 94, 109-110.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christoph Jacob Kremer, in: Academic contributions to Gülchberg history, in the document LXXV , 1781, p. [313] 94.
personal data
SURNAME Irmgard von Berg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION by marriage to the Duchess of Limburg
DATE OF BIRTH around 1204
DATE OF DEATH between August 11, 1248 and August 13, 1248 or between August 11, 1249 and August 13, 1249