Widekind III, Count of Wittgenstein

Widekind III was a count of Wittgenstein of the House of Battenberg, the son of Count Siegfried I and Ida of Arnsberg-Rietberg. His sister Irmgard served as abbess of Essen and later of Herford. He ruled from Wittgenstein Castle above Laasphe, and in 1295 he entered a fief relationship with the Archbishop of Cologne.