Johann I. (Rietberg)

Count Johann I von Rietberg (* around 1450; † 1516 ) was Count von Rietberg from 1472 to 1516 . He was born as the eldest son of Count Konrad V and his wife Jacobe von Neuenahr. After his father's death in 1472, Johann I took over the fate of the county.

During a Schnadegang on May 1, 1474 with the citizens of Rietberg, he drank a barrel of beer with them. In 1477 Johann promised the town council of Rietberg and the local mayor that the old rights and customs would be restored. Furthermore, the law of the city of Lippstadt should also apply here.

Also in 1477 Johann's brother Curt traveled to Rome with Johann den Roden and his wife Lucke. The costs were raised by pledging the aldehyde in Bokel.

On April 24, 1481, Johann I and his wife Margarete entered the Marienfeld monastery under Abbot Johannes V. Wineken . On May 13, 1481, Johann donated an altar there for the salvation of his parents and siblings. He handed over the Horntemannsgut in the parish of Gütersloh as payment, but had the option of being able to buy it back for 200 Rhenish guilders.

He also donated an altar in the Rietberg castle chapel.

Marriage and offspring

Before 1475 he married Margarete zur Lippe . They had nine children:

• Otto III. († December 18, 1535), Count from 1516 to 1535
• Bernhard († October 15, 1501), Canon of Osnabrück and Cologne
• Konrad († 1500), canon in Cologne
• Johann († 1530), canon in Münster and Cologne
• Simon, mentioned 1486–1494
• Elisabeth († July 1512), married Count Edzard I of East Friesland on July 27, 1497
• Emgard († after 1535), married Count Otto IX before 1499 . from Tecklenburg
• Margarete, mentioned in 1491
• Friedrich († 1539), Canon of Cologne

predecessor	Office	successor
Konrad V.	Count of Rietberg 1472 - 1516	Otto III.