Eberhard II, Count of the Mark

Eberhard I, Count of the Mark († July 4, 1308 in Fröndenberg ), Vogt to food, was the first son of Count Engelbert I. von der Mark († 1277 ) from his first marriage with Cunegonde of Blieskastel, a daughter of Count Heinrich. In the lexicon of the Middle Ages, he is mentioned as Everhard II, Count of Mark, Count of Altena.

The first marriage took place with Irmgard of Berg, daughter of Duke Adolf IV (mountain) and Margaret of Hochstaden 1273. From this marriage, among others, Count Engelbert II emerged from the Mark († 1328 ). The second marriage took place then with Marie von Looz.

Count Eberhard fought all his life against the power Kurkölns. In the winter of 1287/88 he released the first occupied by the Cologne Limburg in Hagen, then besieging successfully the opposite of plenty castle and moved from there into the Battle of Worringen against the Archbishop of Cologne. He then conquered the city Werl and the New Isenburg in Essen. Light of the events was the Limburger succession dispute.

His vassal Sobbo de Svirte made ​​Eberhard later the chief Limburg dispute.

Eberhard put the first signs of an administrative division of the county of Mark and founded in 1301, the present city of Mountain Town.

The high grave of Count Eberhard II von der Mark and his wife Irmgard is one of the important works of art of the Church in Fröndenberg.