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Count of Ravensberg

County of Ravensberg
Grafschaft Ravensberg
State of the Holy Roman Empire (until 1806)
1140s – 1807


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Map of part of the Lower Rhenish–Westphalian Circle in
1560, County of Ravensberg highlighted in red
Capital Bielefeld
Government Principality
Historical era Middle Ages
 •  Otto I, Count of
    Ravensberg
 
1140s 1140s
 •  Gerhard I, Count of Berg
    and Ravensberg
 
1338
 •  Joined Westphalian
    Imperial Circle
 
1500
 •  John III, Duke of
    Jülich-Cleves-Berg
 
1521
 •  To Brandenburg-Prussia
    by Treaty of Xanten
 
1614
 •  Disestablished 1807
Preceded by
Succeeded by
County of Calvelage County of Calvelage
Minden-Ravensberg


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The County of Ravensberg (German: Grafschaft Ravensberg) was a historical county of the Holy Roman Empire. Its territory was in present-day eastern Westphalia, Germany at the foot of the Osning or Teutoburg Forest.

Ravensberg was first mentioned in the 12th century; its first capital was Burg Ravensberg. The Counts of Ravensberg then had Sparrenberg Castle built in Bielefeld ca. 1240–50, which they made their seat.

The county was later inherited by the Duchy of Berg in 1346, which in turn became part of the Duchy of Jülich-Berg in 1423, and ultimately the United Duchies of Jülich-Cleves-Berg in 1521.

After the War of the Jülich succession, in the Treaty of Xanten in 1614, the County of Ravensberg came to the Margraviate of Brandenburg, which became the Kingdom of Prussia in 1701, and was administered within Minden-Ravensberg from 1719–1807, when it was dissolved during the Napoleonic Wars.


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