Otto (Kleve)

Otto von Kleve (* around 1278; † October 29, 1310 in Horstmar ) was Count von Kleve from 1305 to 1310 .

Life

Otto was in 1278, the eldest son of Count Dietrich VI. von Kleve and his first wife Margarethe von Geldern, a daughter of Count Otto von Geldern . He has been mentioned as Young Count of Kleve since 1297 and finally succeeded his father, who died on October 4, 1305. He had to deal with the demands of his stepmother Margareta von Neu-Kyburg and his half-brothers Dietrich and Johann .

1308 married Otto Mechtild von Virneburg , a niece of the Archbishop of Cologne Heinrich II. Von Virneburg . After Otto's early death, Mechthild tried to enforce the inheritance claims of her only daughter Irmgard von Kleve together with her great-uncle and the Count von der Mark . His half-brother Dietrich VII./IX finally succeeded him in Kleve . on.

His daughter Irmgard († 1362) was initially married to Adolf II von der Mark . She was divorced from him in 1324, and around 1324 she married Johann von Arkel († 1355).

literature

• Dieter Kastner: The territorial policy of the Counts of Kleve (publications of the historical association for the Lower Rhine, in particular the old Archdiocese of Cologne 11). Schwann Verlag, Düsseldorf 1972, ISBN 3-508-00161-X (plus dissertation, University of Bonn 1968).

predecessor	Office	successor
Dietrich VI./VIII.	Count of Kleve 1305-1310	Dietrich VII./IX.