Margarethe von Ahr-Hochstaden

Margaret of Hochstaden , Margarethe of Are-Hostaden (* before 1214 , † January 30, 1314 in Hückeswagen ) was the daughter of Count Lothar I of Are-Hochstaden and Mathilde of Vianden . She married in 1240 Count Adolf IV of Berg , who ruled from 1246 to 1259 the county of Berg . She was also the sister of the Cologne archbishop Konrad von Hochstaden , who laid the foundation stone for Cologne Cathedral in 1248 .

It is not to be confused with Margaret von Hochstaden, the wife of Lothar II of Are-Hochstaden. This Margaret of Hochstaden was the sister-in-law of Archbishop Konrad of Cologne and not his sister.

Table of Contents 1 The wedding with Adolf IV. Of Berg 2 Margarete as regent of the former county Hückeswagen 3 children 4 literature 5 web links

The wedding with Adolf IV of Berg The reason for her wedding with Adolf IV von Berg was a politically induced 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 Hohenstaufen Emperor Frederick II After a military campaign in Jülich land was achieved after hard fighting a peace, which was sealed by the wedding.

Margarete as regent of the former county Hückeswagen In her time, already under the reign of her son Adolf V , she added the self-confined county Hückeswagen pawned to Berg to the dominion of her son. On July 6, 1260 , the estate was handed over by the emigrated to Moravia Count Franco and his brother Henry to the Counts of Berg. The counts of Hückeswagen waived all claims and legal claims from their pledged county.

She initially resided together with her son at Castle Burg , the seat of power of the Counts of Berg, but later moved to their widow's seat in the castle Hückeswagen (later Hückeswagen Castle). There she died at the ripe 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 to Cologne Wilhelm I of mountain († 16 April 1308) Adolf V. von Berg , († September 28, 1296 ) Irmgard († March 24, 1294), wife of Eberhard I of the Mark Heinrich Herr zu Windeck († 1295)

Wikipedia Source: Added by Janet Milburn 4/6/18