Adolf IX of Berg

Adolf VI. named by mountain ( † April 3, 1348 ), also the Venerable, was a Count of Berg and reigned from 1308 To 1348.

Adolf was the nephew of his two predecessors Adolf V of Berg ( r. 1259-1296 ) and William I of Berg ( r. 1296-1308 ). His father was the brother of Henry of Windeck. By Adolf's marriage to Agnes of Cleves in 1312 it occurred to him that of his wife as a dowry with brought into the marriage Duisburg with the corresponding Rhine tolls to.

Under his reign, many floods, crop failures and epidemics of plague were to be deplored. In addition, the population suffered from the war between Frederick of Austria and Louis of Bavaria. Adolf VI. stood in the royal election in 1314 on the side of Louis, who is also the Empire Pawn shaft Duisburg confirmed him.

Adolf was also be known that he gave many places city rights, so in 1322 he gave Mülheim am Rhein the rights of freedom. Many places in the Bergische Land also been appointed in the first written references to contracts or documents that were signed by Adolf. For its founding cities Adolf had to promise the citizens of Cologne agreed not to attach Deutz or to use it as a staging area against Cologne in return.

1327 to 1328 he accompanied King Louis IV on his Italian expedition to Rome, where it was crowned by the antipope Nicholas V to the Emperor. As a reward Adolf received the extraordinary privilege to characterize silver coins ( pennies ). He did this in his mint in Wipperfuerth.

Adolf died in 1348 and was buried in the Altenberg Cathedral. Since he had no children, the county mountain fell with his death to his niece Margaret, Countess of Ravens mountain and wife Gerhards, son of Count William VI. of Jülich. So went the male line of the Counts of Berg - Limburg.