Margarethe von Berg (Kleve)

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Margarethes sculpture (front) in the double grave next to her husband Adolf I von Kleve , Kleve Collegiate Church

Margarethe von Berg († allegedly October 10, 1425) was a daughter of Count Gerhard von Berg from the House of Jülich and Margarete von Ravensberg-Berg and the wife of Count Adolf I of Kleve-Mark .

Life

In 1369 Margarethe married Adolf von der Mark, the former bishop of Münster and Elekten of Cologne , who had ruled the county of Kleve since 1368 . In 1373 the eldest son of the couple, who later became Count Adolf II from Kleve, was born , and 15 more children followed. Margarethe survived her husband, who died in 1394, by more than 30 years and lived as a widow at Monterberg Castle . She died in 1425 and was buried next to her husband in the Klever collegiate church ; the couple's tomb tumba is preserved there.

literature

Detlev Schwennicke: European family tables NF XVIII: Between the Rhine and Maas, Frankfurt am Main 1998, tables 17 (Kleve) and 29 (Jülich).

personal data
SURNAME Margarethe von Berg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Margarethe von Kleve-Mark
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Daughter of Count Gerhard von Berg, wife of Count Adolf I von Kleve-Mark
DATE OF BIRTH 14th Century
DATE OF DEATH uncertain: October 10, 1425