![]() ![]() William IV's son Walram (Count from 1278 to 1297) remained a fierce opponent of the Bishopric, supporting Duke John I of Brabant at the 1288 Battle of Worringen against Archbishop Siegfried II of Westerburg. William IV, who became count in 1219, significantly enlarged the territory and in 1234 granted Jülich town privileges, provoking the Cologne Archbishop Konrad von Hochstaden, whose troops devastated the city five years later. The first count in the gau of Jülich in Lower Lorraine, Gerhard I, was mentioned in 1003 his grandson Gerhard III began to call himself Count of Jülich in 1081. In the 9th century a certain Matfried was count of Jülich (pagus Juliacensis).
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