Dietrich VII./IX. (Kleve)

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Dietrich VII./IX. (* probably 1291; † July 7, 1347 ) was Count of Kleve from 1310 to 1347 . While he was in the older research as Dietrich IX. (occasionally also called Dietrich VIII.), he is counted in the more recent, Kraus-based research, as Dietrich VII.

Life

Dietrich was probably born in 1291 as the eldest child of Count Dietrich VI./VIII's second marriage . von Kleve was born with Margareta von Neu-Kyburg . Engaged to Margarethe von Geldern, daughter of Count Rainald I von Geldern in 1297 , they both married in 1305/08. After the death of his older half-brother Otto von Kleve in 1310, Dietrich succeeded with great difficulty against a coalition of Otto's widow Mechthild von Virneburg, her great-uncle, the Cologne Archbishop Heinrich II. Von Virneburg and Count Engelbert II. Von der Mark as Count von To enforce Kleve.

In 1318 he reached an agreement with his younger brother Johann about the succession; he ceded the land of Linn to him and assured him of his successor in the county of Kleve in the event that he himself would have no sons. In 1333 Dietrich planned for a time to divide the county among his three daughters after his death; In the end, however, Kleve fell to his brother. Dietrich elevated Uedem and Sonsbeck to cities and founded a Marienstift at Monterberg Castle near Kalkar in 1334 , which he moved to the city of Kleve in 1341 . Dietrich was buried in the choir of this Klever collegiate church, which was still under construction.

Dietrich was married twice. His first marriage was on May 7, 1308 with Margarethe von Geldern († 1333), the daughter of Rainald I von Geldern . His second wife was Maria von Jülich († 1353) on 1340 . She was the daughter of Gerhard V. von Jülich .

The daughter Margarete married Count Adolf II von der Mark († 1347) in 1332. His daughter Elisabeth first married Gerard van Voorne († 1337), then the Junker Otto II of Hesse, who became a legendary figure as Otto der Schütz ; the marriage remained childless. A daughter Maria is also mentioned, about whom nothing further is known.

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).

Web links

  • Biography in the portal Rheinische Geschichte

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Otto der Schütz, based on Ludwig Bechstein, Deutsches Sagenbuch , Leipzig, 1853
  2. ↑ Gottfried Kinkel: Otto the contactor. A Rhenish story in twelve adventures, Cotta, Stuttgart and Tübingen, 1846
predecessor Office successor
Otto Count of Kleve
1310–1347 		Johann
personal data
SURNAME Dietrich VII./IX.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dietrich VII .; Dietrich IX.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count of Kleve
DATE OF BIRTH around 1291
DATE OF DEATH July 7, 1347