Margarete von Hochstaden
Margarete von Hochstaden , also Margarethe von Are-Hostaden (* before 1214 , † January 30, 1314 in Hückeswagen ) was the daughter of Count Lothar I of Are-Hochstaden and Mathilde von Vianden . In 1240 she married Count Adolf IV von Berg , who ruled the County of Berg from 1246 to 1259 . She was also the sister of the Archbishop of Cologne Konrad von Hochstaden , who laid the foundation stone for Cologne Cathedral in 1248 .
She is not to be confused with Margarete von Hochstaden, the wife of Lothar II von Are-Hochstaden. This Margarete von Hochstaden was the sister-in-law of Archbishop Konrad of Cologne and not the sister.
The wedding with Adolf IV von Berg
The reason for her wedding to Adolf IV. Von Berg was a political double wedding. Her brother Konrad von Are-Hochstaden, who became Archbishop of Cologne in 1238, fought on the side of Pope Gregory IX. against the Staufer Emperor Friedrich II. After a campaign in Jülich Land, after hard fighting, a peace was won that was sealed by the wedding.
Margarete as regent of the former county of Hückeswagen
In her time, already under the rule of her son Adolf V , she added the independent county of Hückeswagen, which had been pledged to Berg, to her son's territory. On July 6, 1260 , the property was handed over to the Counts of Berg by Count Franco, who had emigrated to Moravia, and his brother Heinrich. The Counts of Hückeswagen waived all lawsuits and legal claims from their pledged county.
She initially resided with her son at Burg Castle , the mansion of the Counts of Berg, but later moved to her widow's residence in Hückeswagen Castle (later Hückeswagen Castle). There she died at the very old age of over 100 years.
children
- Engelbert, provost of Cologne
- Konrad I von Berg , Bishop of Münster (1306–1310) († May 25, 1313)
- Walram, provost of Cologne
- Wilhelm I von Berg († April 16, 1308)
- Adolf V von Berg , († September 28, 1296 )
- Irmgard († March 24, 1294), wife of Eberhard I. von der Mark
- Heinrich Herr zu Windeck († around 1295)
literature
- Jürgen Simon: History of the county of Hückeswagen , from 900 years of Hückeswagen , 1985
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Margarete von Hochstaden |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Margarethe von Are-Hostaden |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Regent of the former county of Hückeswagen |
| DATE OF BIRTH | before 1214 |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 30, 1314 |
| Place of death | Hückeswagen |