Adolf VI, Count of Berg

Count Adolf III. of Berg ( * before 1176; † August 7, 1218 in front of Damietta in Egypt) was from 1189, Count of Berg.

Life

He was the son of Engelbert I of Berg and the older brother of Engelbert II von Berg (1185-1225), known as Archbishop Engelbert I of Cologne. After his father had died in 1189 at the Third Crusade, was Adolf Graf von Berg. No later than 1204, Adolf was married to a Bertha ( Hertha), which may originate in the house of Sayn.

His government years fell into the time of military conflict between the Hohenstaufen and Welf party. It changed hands several times the pages once fought for Otto IV, the son of Henry the Lion, who had been his cousin, Archbishop Adolf of Cologne, where the German king, at other times for Philip of Swabia, the son of Barbarossa, finally joined the young Staufer Friedrich II, who appeared in 1212 in Constance, on German soil. Once again, he was back on the correct side. The Staufer reciprocated with the election of his brother Engelbert to the Archbishop of Cologne.

1212 Adolf took part in the Albigensian Crusade. In 1215 he captured the Emperor Kaiserswerth and freed the trapped there by Otto IV Hohenstaufen minded Rhenish-Westphalian bishops. His partisanship decided the struggle for the throne in favor of Emperor Frederick II

Adolf broke 1218 on the Fifth Crusade to the Holy Land and died on August 7, 1218 as commander of the Rhenish and Frisian siege troops before Damietta in the Nile Delta of a plague. Since he left only a daughter, went out of the ordinary Altena -Berg.

His brother, the Archbishop Engelbert I of Cologne, then took over the county mountain. After his assassination was Henry IV of Limburg, the husband of Adolf's daughter Irmgard, Count of Berg.