Margarete von Kleve († after 1348)
Margaretha von Kleve , also called Margarethe von Kleve or Margarete von Kleve (* around 1310, † after 1348), was the wife of Count Adolf II von der Mark and mother of Count Adolf III. from the mark .
Margaretha was a daughter of Count Dietrich VII./IX. von Kleve and Margarethe von Geldern, a daughter of Count Rainald I von Geldern .
On March 15, 1332 she married Count Adolf II von der Mark . In 1333 her father made an inheritance regulation according to which the county of Kleve should fall to Margarethe and her sisters Elisabeth and Maria. After protests by the count brother Johann , these plans were abandoned in 1338.
Margaret's husband, Count Adolf, died before his father-in-law, the Clever Count, in 1346. The eldest son, Engelbert , succeeded him in the county of Mark . After the death of her father, Count Dietrich, on July 7, 1347, Margarethe tried to secure the Klever inheritance for her sons Engelbert and Adolf . Initially she was here by her cousin, Duke Rainald III. supported by funds . However, Margarethe did not succeed in asserting herself against her uncle, Count Johann von Kleve.
It was only after Johann's death in 1368 that the Brandenburg count's house, citing Margaret's inheritance rights, succeeded him in the county of Kleve. Count von Kleve became the second-born son Adolf, most of the property on the right bank of the Rhine fell to Engelbert and the third son, Dietrich .
Web links
- Life data of Margarethe von Kleve at genealogie-mittelalter.de ( Memento from July 9, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Margaret of Kleve |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Margarethe von Kleve; Margaretha of Kleve |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Wife of Count Adolf II von der Mark and mother of Count Adolf III. from the mark |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1310 |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1341 |