Background
He was the son of Adolf IV of Berg.
He was the son of Adolf IV of Berg.
Through his loyalty to the German Emperor and the Archbishops of Cologne he succeeded in stabilising the county and increasing its revenues. He took Bensberg Palace, Neu-Windeck and Elberfeld. In July 1189 he was killed near Kovin, in Serbia, while on his way to the Holy Land with the crusade of emperor Frederick Barbarossa.
Count Adolf VI of Berg (d 1218) and Count Engelbert II of Berg (d 7 November 1225), otherwise known as Engelbert I, Archbishop of Cologne and as Saint Engelbert.
Alberic of Troisfontaines (Massachusetts General Hospital Home, Scriptores XXIII). Education H. J. Pages