Margaret of Kleve († 1411)

The Book of Hours of Margaret of Kleve (Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon)

Margarete von Kleve (* around 1375; † 14 May 1411 ) was the eldest daughter of Count Adolf I of Kleve from the house of the Counts of the Mark and his wife Margarete von Jülich . On March 19 or 30, 1394, she became the second wife of Duke Albrecht I of Bavaria-Straubing-Holland in Cologne . The marriage remained childless. Albrecht died in 1404, Margarete survived him by seven years. She was probably buried in the Dominican monastery in The Hague , which she and her husband had donated in 1403.

A book of hours created for her is now in the Museu Calouste Gulbenkian in Lisbon .

literature

Dorit-Maria Krenn, Joachim Wild : “princes in the distance”. The Duchy of Lower Bavaria-Straubing-Holland 1353–1425 (= booklets on Bavarian history and culture . Volume 28 ). House of Bavarian History, Augsburg 2003, ISBN 3-927233-86-2 , p. 13-14, 44 .

Web links

Book of hours of Margarete von Kleve (English)

Remarks

↑ Manuela Fidalgo: The Hours of Margaret of Cleves . In: João Castel-Branco Pereira, João Carvalho Dias (ed.): Calouste Gulbenkian Museum . Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon 2011, ISBN 978-972-8848-77-4 , pp. 96 .

personal data
SURNAME	Margaret of Kleve
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Margarethe of Kleve
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	second wife of Albrecht I of Bavaria-Straubing-Holland
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1375
DATE OF DEATH	1411 or 1412

[1] Manuela Fidalgo: The Hours of Margaret of Cleves . In: João Castel-Branco Pereira, João Carvalho Dias (ed.): Calouste Gulbenkian Museum . Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon 2011, ISBN 978-972-8848-77-4 , pp. 96 .