Margaret of Ravensberg

Grave of Gerhard I. Count of Jülich-Berg and his wife Margarete.

Margaret of Ravensberg (c. 1320 – 13 February 1389) was the daughter and heiress of Otto IV, Count of Ravensberg and Margaret of Berg-Windeck.

Margaret's father, Otto, had no sons, so at his death in 1328, the County of Ravensberg went to his younger brother Bernhard. However, when Bernhard died in 1346 without issue, Margaret became the heiress of Ravensberg, her elder sister and only sibling, Hedwig, having died in 1336. Then, when Margaret's uncle, Adolf IX of Berg, died in 1348 without issue, Margaret also inherited Berg by right of her mother, since Margaret was Adolf's only surviving niece.

As a result of her marriage to Gerhard VI of Jülich, Berg and Ravensberg passed into the house of Jülich where they remained until 1511 when they passed into the house of Cleves.

Family and children

Margaret married Gerhard VI of Jülich. They had three children:

1. Elizabeth (c. 1346 – aft 1388), married Henry VI, Count of Waldeck
2. William (c.1348 – 1408)
3. Margaret (c. 1350 – 1425/29), married Adolf I of Kleve-Mark

Anne of Cleves is one of her descendants.

Ancestry

16. Herman of Ravensberg (c. 1160 – 1221)

8. Ludwig of Ravensberg (c. 1200 – 1249)

17. Jutta of Thuringia (c. 1172 – ?)

4. Otto III of Ravensberg (1246–1305/06)

18. Adolf I of Dassel (bef 1180 – 1224)

9. Adelheid of Dassel (?–1262/63)

19. Adelheid of Schwarzburg (? – aft 1244)

2. Otto IV, Count of Ravensberg (bef. 1276 – 1328)

20. Herman II, Lord of Lippe (1170–1229)

10. Bernard III, Lord of Lippe (c. 1200 – 1264/65)

21. Oda of Tecklenburg (c. 1180 – 1221

5. Hedwig of Lippe (c. 1245 – 1315)

22. Godfrey II of Arnsberg (c. 1157 – 1236

11. Sophie of Arnsberg (? – aft 1285)

23. Elisabeth

1. Margaret of Ravensberg

24. Henry IV, Duke of Limburg (c. 1195 – 1246/47)

12. Adolf VII of Berg (c. 1220 – 1259)

25. Irmgard of Berg (c. 1200 – 1248)

6. Henry of Berg, Lord of Windeck (bef 1247 – 1290/95)

26. Lothar I of Hochstaden (?–1215)

13. Margaret of Hochstaden (c. 1214 – 1314)

27. Mechtild of Vianden (?–1241)

3. Margaret of Berg-Windeck (c. 1275/1280–c. 1339/1346)

28. Adolf I, Count of the Mark (c. 1194 – 1249)

14. Engelbert I of the Mark (?–1277)

29. Irmgard of Guelders (c. 1190 – aft 1230)

7. Agnes of the Mark (bef 1258 – ?)

30. Henry I of Blieskastel (?–1237)

15. Kunigunde of Blieskastel (? – bef 1265)

31. Agnes of Sayn (? – aft 1259)