and sought to bring Frederick to justice. On 7 November 1225 while they travelled together to Cologne from a judicial hearing in Soest, Engelbert was killed, possibly by Frederick, in a defile near present-day Gevelsberg near Schwelm. It seems probable that a group of disaffected nobility was behind the attack which may have been intended to take Engelbert captive rather than kill him. Engelbert's body was taken to Cologne on a dung-cart, and when examined, found to have forty-seven wounds. Veneration Engelbert's body was buried in Cologne Cathedral on 24 February 1226 by order of Cardinal Conrad of Urach, the papal legate, who declared him a martyr, though a formal canonization did not take place. His remains are preserved today in a Baroque shrine prepared on the authority of Ferdinand of Bavaria, archbishop of Cologne, who in 1618 also ordered the celebration of his feast on 7 November. See also Notes References This article is in part based on a translation of the article in the German Wikipedia Further reading An article on the murder of Engelbert 1225 External links Biography on genealogie-mittelalter.de 07. November 1225 from the Exhibition NRW 2000 http://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/76425 The death of Archbishop Engelbert of Cologne, poem by Annette von Droste-Hülshoff at Project Gutenberg Engelbert's shrine in Cologne Cathedral 1180s births 1225 deaths Year of birth uncertain Medieval murder victims People from Solingen Archbishops of Cologne Engelbert 01 13th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in the Holy Roman Empire Counts of Berg German Roman Catholic saints House of Limburg-Stirum Burials at Cologne Cathedral 13th-century Christian saints Recipients of papal pardons