Dietrich IV./VI. (Kleve)

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Dietrich IV./VI. von Kleve (* around 1185 ; † 13 May or 26 June 1260 ) (also: Dietrich Nust ) was the only son of Count Dietrich III./V. von Kleve and Margaret of Holland, daughter of Count Florence III. He was Count of Kleve from about 1202 to 1260. While he was in the older research as Dietrich VI. (sometimes also called Dietrich V.), he is counted in the more recent research based on Kraus as Dietrich IV.

Life

Dietrich followed his father as a minor and became the actual founder of the territorial state of Kleve . He strongly encouraged the settlement of the country and founded castles and cities, including Wesel , Kleve , Kalkar and Grieth . In the German controversy for the throne, he finally passed over to the later Emperor Friedrich II in 1214 and received all fiefdoms from him. In 1203 he intervened in the war of inheritance in Holland on behalf of his niece Adelheid (Ada), without actually being able to help her. He belonged to the opposition to Engelbert I of Cologne , without having been involved in his murder in 1225. He supported the Archbishop of Bremen in his "crusade" against the Stedingen farmers , participated in the battle of Altenesch in 1234 and remained like the other greats of Westphalia in contrast to the Archbishops of Cologne. In 1247 he supported King Wilhelm of Holland , who confirmed all imperial fiefs. In 1248 he intervened in the Flanders Hereditary War against the House of Dampierre-Namur, winning Gahlen , Castrop , Mengede near Dortmund , Hülchrath near Neuss and the Bailiwick of Willibrord in Wesel and Dinslaken and strengthening the position of the house on the Lower Rhine. After the early death of his son Dietrich primogenitus , Count Dietrich divided the rule in 1255 among his remaining sons Dietrich V./VII. and Dietrich Luf , who came from his second marriage to Hedwig von Meißen . His daughter Agnes (~ 1232 - ~ August 1, 1285) married Bernhard IV. Zur Lippe . Shortly before his death, Dietrich had Monterberg Castle rebuilt near Kalkar.

literature

• Dieter Kastner: The territorial policy of the Counts of Kleve , Düsseldorf 1972 (= publications of the historical association for the Lower Rhine, especially the old Archdiocese of Cologne 11).
• Thomas R. Kraus : Studies on the early history of the Counts of Kleve and the emergence of the Klevian sovereignty , in: Rheinische Vierteljahrsblätter 46 (1982), pp. 1-47. ISSN  0035-4473

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1. ^ Genealogy Middle Ages Count Dietrich V. von Kleve http://www.manfred-hiebl.de/genealogie-mittelalter/kleve_grafen_von/dietrich_5_nust_graf_von_kleve_+_1260.html on February 24, 2007

Web links

• Biography in the portal Rheinische Geschichte

predecessor	Office	successor
Dietrich III./V.	Count of Kleve 1202–1260	Dietrich V./VII.