Henry the Lion
The first "Vögte" seem to have been the Billunger, and after they died out, Henry the Lion, who appointed the Counts of Schwalenberg as under-"Vögte". From 1180, after the fall of Henry the Lion, they exercised the same function for the Archbishopric of Cologne and the Duchy of Westphalia. By 1261 the office seems to have passed to the Counts of Sternberg and in 1382 to the Counts of Jülich-Berg.