Otto IV, Count of Ravensberg ( – 1328) was a German

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. He was the ruling Count of Ravensberg from 1306 until his death. Otto was the fifth child of Count

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and his wife Hedwig of Lippe ( – 5 March 1315), daughter of

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Marriage and descendants

In 1313, Otto IV married

Margaret of Berg-Windeck Margaret of Berg-Windeck ( – between 1339 and 1346) was a German noblewoman. Life She was the only daughter of Henry of Berg, Lord of Windeck and his wife Agnes of the Marck. In 1313, she married Otto IV, a son of Count Otto III of Ra ...

. Together, they had two daughters: * Hedwig (d. after 1387) married Duke William II of Brunswick-Lüneburg *

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( – 19 February 1389) married

Gerhard VI of Jülich, Count of Berg and Ravensberg Gerhard VI of Jülich, Count of Berg and Ravensberg ( – 18 May 1360) was the son of William V, Duke of Jülich and Joanna of Hainaut.Walther Möller, ''Stammtafeln westdeutscher Adelsgeschlechter im Mittelalter'' (Darmstadt, 1922, reprint Verlag ...

References

* Counts of Ravensberg 1270s births 1328 deaths Year of birth uncertain 13th-century German nobility 14th-century German nobility {{Germany-noble-stub