In 1277, Count Herman of Lohn abducted Eberhard's father Count Engelbert I, Count of the Mark near Tecklenburg and imprisoned him in the Castle of Bredevoort, where he later died.
In 1357 the von Lichtenbergs sold the castle, and the related rule, including the town, to Eberhard II, Count of Württemberg.
Subsequent to the victory of Emperor Charles IV over Eberhard II, Count of Würtemberg, in 1360 Heubach and Rosenstein fell to the Kingdom of Bohemia.
Eberhard Schrader | Eberhard of Friuli | Eberhard Jäckel | Eberhard Esche | Martin Eberhard | Eberhard Zeidler | Eberhard von Gemmingen | Eberhard III, Duke of Württemberg | Eberhard II, Count of Württemberg | Eberhard I, Duke of Württemberg | Eberhard Faber | Eberhard Blum | Eberhard | Robert Eberhard Launitz | Eberhard Wolfgang Möller | Eberhard Vogel | Eberhard van der Laan | Eberhard IV "the Younger" | Eberhard III | Eberhard II | Eberhard I, Count of Württemberg | Eberhard I, Count of Bonngau | Eberhard Hopf | Eberhard Carl | Eberhard Burger | Eberhard Bodenschatz | August Eberhard Müller |
Ministerial marriage was subject to review or approval of the liege, as in Salzburg:In July 1213 Archbishop Eberhard II of Salzburg (1200–1246) and Bishop Manegold of Passau (1206–1215) asked King Frederick II at the imperial court held at Eger (today Cheb in the Czech Republic) to confirm the marriage contract that Gerhoch II of Bergheim-Radeck, an archiepiscopal ministerial, had made with Bertha of Lonsdorf, a Passau ministerial.