Margaretha von Berg

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Tomb of Margaretha von Windeck (or Elisabeth von Waldeck?)

Margaretha von Berg , also Margaretha von Windeck , (* around 1285 , † 1340 ) was Countess von Ravensberg by marriage .

Life

Margaretha was a daughter of Heinrich von Limburg-Berg Edelherr von Windeck and Agnes , the daughter of Engelbert I von der Mark .

In 1313 she married Otto IV , Count von Ravensberg, son of Otto III. With him she had a daughter Margarete von Ravensberg-Berg , who married Gerhard von Jülich in 1338 . The second daughter Hedwig von Ravensberg († December 5, 1334) was married to Duke Wilhelm von Braunschweig-Lüneburg .

When her husband died in 1328, the county of Ravensberg fell to her brother-in-law Bernhard von Ravensberg . When Bernhard died in 1346, Ravensberg fell to her daughter Margarete. It was last documented in 1339. In the context of the estate settlement of the County of Ravensberg in 1346, she is no longer mentioned because she was probably already dead.

When her brother Adolf VI died. von Berg her daughter inherited the county of Berg in 1348 . This is said to have a tomb in the St. Lambertus Church in Düsseldorf .

literature

  • Joesten: The restored grave monument of Margaretha von Windeck, Countess von Berg and Ravensberg, who died in 1384, in the Lambertus parish church in Düsseldorf. Presented at the meeting of the Historical Association for the Lower Rhine in Düsseldorf on October 2, 1871. Palm, Düsseldorf 1871, OCLC 634822829 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Margaretha von Berg on thepeerage.com , accessed February 15, 2016.
  2. ^ A b c Eva Oberdörster: Women's history in Düsseldorfer street names. uni-duesseldorf.de, accessed on February 15, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Margarete von Berg Graefin zu Vlotho † around 1339. hagen-bobzin.de, accessed on February 15, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Hedwig von Ravensberg on thepeerage.com , accessed February 15, 2016.
  5. ^ W. Tobien: Memories from the past of Westphalia. Karl Volkmann, Elberfeld 1869, pp. 240–243. ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  6. ↑ Joesten: The restored grave monument of Margaretha von Windeck, Countess von Berg and Ravensberg, who died in 1384, in the Lambertus parish church in Düsseldorf. P. 5.
personal data
SURNAME Margaretha von Berg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Countess von Berg and Ravensberg
DATE OF BIRTH around 1285
DATE OF DEATH 1340