Henry IV (1195 – 25 February 1247) was the duke of

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and count of

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from 1226 to his death. He was the son of Waleran III, count of

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and duke of Limburg, and Cunigunda, daughter of

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County of Berg

Originally lord of Montjoie, he married

Irmgard of Berg Irmgard of Berg, heiress of Berg (died 1248–1249), was the child of Adolf VI count of Berg (1185–1218) and Berta von Sayn. She married in 1217 Henry IV, Duke of Limburg (since 1226), who became count of Berg in 1225. Henry IV of Limburg-Berg ...

, heiress of the County of Berg, a daughter of the count

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, who died at the Siege of Damietta in 1218. Irmgard and Henry could not immediately inherit the county, as it was held by Engelbert I,

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. Engelbert being the principal adviser of

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, he was confirmed in the county for life, paying a rent to Henry and Ermengard. Engelbert was assassinated on 7 November 1225 and Henry inherited Berg, inheriting Limburg a little while later. He then entrusted Montjoie to his brother Waleran, who already held

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Isenberg

He defied himself when his brother-in-law Frederik of Isenberg was held responsible for the death of the Archbishop of Cologne, Engelbert of Berg Remarkably, through the death of Engelbert, the

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would come to him through his wife Ermgarde, Berg's heiress. After the execution of his brother-in-law Frederik van Isenberg and the death of his sister Sofia a year later, he was concerned about the fate of the orphans. They were brought up at his court in his duchy of Limburg. For the next 20 years he would also support their rights in armed hand against Adolf Earl of Mark, their father's cousin, who took much of their belongings to himself.

Emperor Frederick II

In 1228, took part in the

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to the

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. Upon returning to Germany, he joined the Stedinger Crusade. He also assisted Emperor Frederick II in his fight against the Pope; and was sent by him, along with the Duke of Brabant and the Archbishop of Cologne, as an envoy to England, to obtain for him the hand of the sister of

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After their return, they were also present at the wedding ceremonies at Worms on July 20, 1235.

County Limburg Lenne

He also made war on the archbishop of Cologne,

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between 1238 and 1241. He was counted among the partisans of the

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. All the while he helped his two teenage cousins Diederik and Frederik of

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junior with men and money in their battle to reclaim their lost county. The men built a wooden fort for the two cousins as a stronghold and later near a castle on the Schlepenberg on the Lenne, a high fortress they called Limburg. Henry (maternal uncle) and Engelbert of Isenberg bishop of Osnabruck (paternal uncle) stood as chief negotiators for their cousins on 1 May 1243 at the base of the new

county of Limburg Hagen-Hohenlimburg (formerly known as Limburg an der Lenne, changed to Hohenlimburg in 1903; Westphalian: ''Limmerg''), on the Lenne river, is a borough of the city of Hagen in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Hohenlimburg was formerly the ch ...

around the lower reaches of the river Lenne.

Duchy Limburg

Hendrik died on February 25, 1247 and was buried in the abbey of Altenberg. When his granddaughter Duchess Irmgard died in 1282, the battle of Woeringen in 1288 was fought for succession in the Duchy of Limburg. The victor, the Duke of Brabant, merged the duchies of Limburg and Brabant. Duke Henry and Irmgard of Berg had 2 sons : * Waleran, his successor in Limburg *

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, his successor in Berg.

Ancestry

References

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