Jutta von Ravensberg
Jutta von Ravensberg (* around 1223 / around 1231; † 1301 / after 1302) was Countess von Ravensberg. In 1252 she sold her rulership rights in Emsland and Vechta to the Bishop of Münster, which later became the Lower Monastery of Münster .
Life
Jutta von Ravensberg was born around 1223 or around 1231 as the daughter of Otto II von Ravensberg († 1244) and his wife Sophie von Oldenburg. Since her brother Hermann von Ravensberg died early and she was the only surviving daughter, she became the sole heir to her parents. In 1252 Jutta von Ravensberg, her second husband Walram III. von Monschau and her mother Sophie von Oldenburg handed over the rulership rights in the Emsland and Vechta for 40,000 marks to Bishop Otto II of Münster († 1259), which later became the Niederstift Münster . Jutta von Ravensberg died in 1301 or after 1302.
possession
Jutta von Ravensberg owned: the Free County of Sögel auf dem Hümmling; the estate in Oythe; the rule and castle of Vechta with market, coin and customs rights; the manor and castle of Vlotho ; Possessions in Haselünne; Goods in the Bersenbrück area; Imperial fiefs and fiefs of the archbishops of Cologne and Bremen, the bishops of Paderborn, Minden, Osnabrück, Utrecht and the Corvey monastery.
Marriages
In 1238 the underage Jutta von Ravensberg was born with Heinrich III. von Tecklenburg († 1247/1248), the son of Otto I von Tecklenburg († 1263) and his wife Mechthild von Holstein-Schauenburg engaged to consolidate the reconciliation of the rival houses of Ravensberg and Tecklenburg. They married in 1242 / around 1244. As a marriage gift she received from Heinrich III. and Otto II. the estate in Oythe and the Free County of Sögel on the Hümmling.
After the death of her first husband in 1247/1248 she married Walram III in 1251 or before 1251 in second marriage. von Monschau (from Montjoie), († 1266), the son of Walram II. von Monschau († 1242) and his wife Elisabeth von Bar.
Both marriages remained childless.
literature
- Johannes Rüschen: Art. Jutta von Ravensberg-Vechta, in: Study Society for Emsländische Regionalgeschichte (Ed.), Emsländische Geschichte, Vol. 11, Haselünne 2004, pp. 297–307.
Web links
- Jutta von Ravensberg at the Museum in the Armory Vechta
- Jutta von Ravensberg at Foundation for Medieval Genealogy
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jutta von Ravensberg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Countess of Ravensberg |
| DATE OF BIRTH | at 1223 or at 1231 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1301 or after 1302 |