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Berg is a municipality in the district of Starnberg in Bavaria, Germany, on the shore of the Starnberg Lake. It is most famous for the royal Berg Castle .
Berg Palace (German: Schloss Berg) is a manor house situated on the east bank of Lake Starnberg in the village of Berg in Upper Bavaria, Germany. The site became widely known as the last residence of King Ludwig II of Bavaria and location of his disputed death.
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The Counts of Berg emerged in 1101 as a junior line of the dynasty of the Ezzonen, which traced its roots back to the 9th-century Kingdom of Lotharingia, and in the 11th century became the most powerful dynasty in the region of the lower Rhine. In 1160, the territory split into two portions, one of them later becoming the County of the Mark, which returned to the possession of the family line in the 16th century. The most powerful of the early rulers of Berg, Engelbert II of Berg died in an a...
Problems of succession
In 1509, John III, Duke of Cleves, made a strategic marriage to Maria von Geldern, daughter of William IV, Duke of Jülich-Berg, who became heiress to her father's estates: Jülich, Berg and the County of Ravensberg, which under the Salic laws of the Holy Roman Empire caused the properties to pass to the husband of the female heir (women could not hold property except through a husband or a guardian). With the death of her father in 1511 the Dukes of Jülich-Berg became extinct, and the estate t...
French revolution, Grand Duchy of Berg
The French occupation (1794–1801) and annexation (1801) of Jülich (French: Juliers) during the French revolutionary wars separated the two duchies of Jülich and Berg, and in 1803 Berg separated from the other Bavarian territories and came under the rule of a junior branch of the Wittelsbachs. In 1806, in the reorganization of the German lands occasioned by the end of the Holy Roman Empire, Berg became the Grand Duchy of Berg, under the rule of Napoleon's brother-in-law, Joachim Murat. Murat's...
House of Ezzonen
1. Hermann I "Pusillus", Count Palatine of Lotharingia 2. Adolf I of Lotharingia, Vogt of Deutz 3. Adolf II of Lotharingia, Vogt of Deutz
House of Berge
1. 1077–1082 Adolf I of Berg, 1st Count of Berg 2. 1082–1093 Adolf II of Berg-Hövel (Huvili), Count of Berg 3. 1093–1132 Adolf III, Count of Berg 4. 1132–1160 Adolf IV, Count of Berg 4.1. c.1140-1148 Adolf V, Count of Berg 5. 1160–1189 Engelbert I, Count of Berg 6. 1189–1218 Adolf VI, Count of Berg 7. 1218–1225 Engelbert II of Berg, Archbishop of Cologne, Regent of Berg 8. 1218–1248 Irmgard, heiress of Berg, marries in 1217 Henry IV, Duke of Limburg
House of Limburg
1. 1218–1247 Henry IVDuke of Limburg, Count of Berg 2. 1247–1259 Adolf VIICount of Limburg, Count of Berg 3. 1259–1296 Adolf VIII 4. 1296–1308 William I 5. 1308–1348 Adolf IX
The historic coat of armsof Berg shows a red lion with a double tail and blue crown, tongue, and claws – blazoned as: Argent a lion rampant gules, queue fourchée crossed in saltire, armed, langued, and crowned azure. This lion originates from the arms of the Duke of Limburg as the Berg title in the 13th century fell to the Limburg line. 1. Heraldic...
Media related to Duchy of Bergat Wikimedia CommonsBerg, former duchy of the Holy Roman Empire, on the right bank of the Rhine, now in the administrative districts of Düsseldorf and Cologne in Germany. In the 11th century the counts of Berg came into possession of Westphalian lands east of Cologne.
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Berg is a municipality in the district of Starnberg in Bavaria, Germany, on the shore of the Starnberg Lake. Mapcarta, the open map.
