Engelbert I, Count of Berg

Engelbert I of Berg ( † July 1189 in Kubin ( serb. Kovin ) in the Banat, today Serbia) was from 1161, Count of Berg.

He was the son of Adolf II of Berg from his second marriage to Irmgard von Schwarzburg. After his father in the year 1160 had become a monk in Altenberg, he shared the inheritance with his brother Everhard; this was Altena and Engelbert got the county mountain.

Through his loyalty to the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa and the archbishops of Cologne, he managed to stabilize the county and to increase the revenue. He extended his possessions to the castles Bensberg, the New Windeck and the fortified manor Elberfeld.

Well in the spring of 1189 Engelbert of precious Lord Arnold of Teveren received its entire right bank ownership to Holthausen, Dusseldorf, Buscherhof, Eickenberg at Millrath, Monheim, sky spirit, on the Rhine near Holthausen and on the Anger for 100 marks as a pledge - the pledge was never redeemed. Thus, Engelbert succeeded a significant rounding of the mountain county in the north.

In May 1189 he left the army of Emperor Frederick Barbarossa to the Third Crusade. The journey took them along the Danube through the Balkans. In early July 1189, died at Engelbert Kubin in Serbia, near the former Hungarian- Byzantine border. He was after his brother Adolf, the Second of his family, who died on a crusade.

With his sons, Count Adolf III. Berg, who fell in 1218 at the Fifth Crusade, and Count Engelbert II of Berg, who as Archbishop of Cologne was Engelbert I and in 1225 was murdered, his family died out in the male line.