Conrad V, Count of Rietberg

Count Conrad V of Rietberg was Count of Rietberg from 1428 until his death. His father was Count Conrad IV of Rietberg.

Marriage and issue

Conrad married before 1450 to Jacoba, a daughter of Count Gumprecht II of Neuenahr and Margaret of Limburg-Broich. They had six children:

John I, succeeded Conrad V in 1472 as Count of Rietberg and ruled until his death in 1516
Emegart, married in 1443 to Arnd Balke
Conrad, was elected prince-bishop of Osnabrück on 2 February 1482, and became prince-bishop of Münster in 1497
Simon, was a canon at Cologne
Gumprecht, was mentioned only in 1468
Margaret, married on 10 March 1483 to Duke Frederick III of Brunswick-Calenberg-Göttingen

His grave

Conrad V was buried in a section of the cloister of the former Cistercian Marienfeld Abbey which has not been preserved. His grave stone contained a Latin text:
In English translation:
The grave stone of his wife also contained Latin text:
In English translation:

Legacy

Conrad V built a chapel in the castle at Rietberg; it was consacreted on 2 July 1464.
In 1456, he had to give up his imperial immediacy and accept Rietberg as a fief from the Landgraviate of Hesse, in return for a compensation of 600 Rhenish guilders.