Adolf VI, Count of Berg
Count Adolf VI of Berg ruled the County of Berg from 1197 until 1218.
Life
He was the son of Engelbert I of Berg and Margaret of Geldern, and the oldest brother of Engelbert II of Berg, also known as Engelbert of Cologne or Saint Engelbert. Adolf married Berta von Sayn, a daughter of Henry II von Sayn and Agnes zu Saffenberg. They had one daughter:- Irmgard of Berg, heiress of Berg. She married Henry IV, Duke of Limburg.
Adolf left on 1218 with the Fifth Crusade to Egypt and died on 7 August 1218 of a plague as commander of the Lower-Rhenish and Frisian troops in Damiette, in the delta of the Nile.
His brother, the Archbishop Engelbert II of Berg followed him as ruler of Berg, which later went to the husband of Adolf's daughter, Irmgard of Berg.
Nota
Adolf VI, Count of Berg is named Adolf III, Count of Berg in the Netherlands and in GermanyLiterature
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