Wilhelm (Berg-Ravensberg)

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Burial place for Wilhelm and his wife

Wilhelm von Berg (* 1382 ; † November 22, 1428 ) was Wilhelm II. Count von Ravensberg and ruled the Prince-Bishopric of Paderborn (1402-1414) as Prince-Bishop Wilhelm . He came from the line of the House of Jülich that ruled the Duchy of Berg .

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Wilhelm was the third son of Duke Wilhelm I von Berg and Annas , daughter of Elector Ruprecht II von der Pfalz and sister of the German King Ruprecht . Ruprecht von Berg , Elect-Prince-Bishop of Passau and Paderborn, was Wilhelm's brother.

Wilhelm owed his election to the (not consecrated ) Bishop of Paderborn 1401 to the support of his royal uncle. Although his father transferred the county of Ravensberg to him in 1402, Wilhelm supported his brother Adolf in his rebellion against his father in 1403 , but was reconciled with his father in 1404 again and was confirmed in the possession of Ravensberg.

As a result, he led many feuds , including against Lippe , on which he forced the Paderborn sovereignty in parts and took Enger for Ravensberg.

With his close adviser Gobelin Person , he reformed the Böddeken monastery near Büren (Westphalia) in line with the Devotio Moderna . With the attempt to achieve the same for the Abdinghof monastery in the city of Paderborn , however, he turned the Paderborn citizens and the estates against them.

When he applied for the vacated Archdiocese of Cologne in 1414 , his competitor Dietrich von Moers allied himself with Wilhelm's opponents in the Diocese of Paderborn and was elected bishop. Under such pressure, Wilhelm had to forego both Paderborn and his Cologne entitlement, withdrew to the county of Ravensberg, which he had left, and resided in the Sparrenburg near Bielefeld .

In 1416 he married Dietrich's niece Adelheid von Tecklenburg and thus became the progenitor of a new line of the Bergische dukes, since the only son Gerhard who emerged from the marriage not only inherited the county of Ravensberg, but in 1437 also the duchies of Berg and Jülich.

Wilhelm died in 1428 and was buried in the Neustädter Marienkirche in Bielefeld, where his tomb can still be seen today.

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predecessor Office successor
Bertrando d'Arvazzano Prince-Bishop of Paderborn
1401–1414 		Dietrich III. from Moers
Adolf Count of Ravensberg
1402–1428 		Gerhard
personal data
SURNAME Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wilhelm von Berg; Wilhelm II of Ravensberg; Wilhelm of Paderborn
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count of Ravensberg and Prince-Bishop of Paderborn
DATE OF BIRTH 1382
DATE OF DEATH November 22, 1428