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Arnold I was Count of Cleves from 1119 through 1148. He succeeded his father, Dietrich I, Count of Cleves. [1]
With Ida of Louvain, daughter of Godfrey I, Count of Louvain,[ citation needed ] he had Dietrich II, Count of Cleves, who succeeded him. [1]
The County of Mark was a county and state of the Holy Roman Empire in the Lower Rhenish–Westphalian Circle. It lay on both sides of the Ruhr River along the Volme and Lenne rivers.
The Duchy of Cleves was a State of the Holy Roman Empire which emerged from the medieval Hettergau. It was situated in the northern Rhineland on both sides of the Lower Rhine, around its capital Cleves and the towns of Wesel, Kalkar, Xanten, Emmerich, Rees and Duisburg bordering the lands of the Prince-Bishopric of Münster in the east and the Duchy of Brabant in the west. Its history is closely related to that of its southern neighbours: the Duchies of Jülich and Berg, as well as Guelders and the Westphalian county of Mark. The Duchy was archaically known as Cleveland in English.
Godfrey I, called the Bearded, the Courageous, or the Great, was the Landgrave of Brabant, Count of Brussels and Leuven (Louvain) from 1095 to his death and Duke of Lower Lorraine from 1106 to 1129. He was also Margrave of Antwerp from 1106 to his death.
Dirk VII was the count of Holland from 1190 to 1203. He was the elder son of Floris III and Ada of Huntingdon.
Adolph I of Cleves was the second Count of Cleves and the fourth Count of Mark.
Simon III of Sarrebrück, Simon III von Saarbrücken (Saarbrücken-Leiningen) was the Count of Saarbrücken (de) from 1207 until his death, about 1240.
Adolph III of the Marck was the Prince-Bishop of Münster from 1357 to 1363, the Archbishop-Elector of Cologne in 1363, the Count of Cleves from 1368 to 1394, and the Count of Mark from 1391 to 1393.
Dietrich I was the first Count of Cleves. He reigned from 1092 through 1119. He was succeeded by his son Arnold I, Count of Cleves.
Dietrich II was Count of Cleves from 1148 through 1172, son of Arnold I, Count of Cleves and Ida, the daughter of Godfrey I, Count of Louvain.
Dietrich III was Count of Cleves from 1172 through 1200. He was the son of Dietrich II, Count of Cleves, and Adelaide, daughter of Gebhard III of Sulzbach.
Dietrich V was Count of Cleves from 1201 through 1260. Dietrich was born about 1185 as the son of Dietrich IV, Count of Cleves and Margaret of Holland.
Dietrich VII (1256–1305) was Count of Cleves from 1275 through 1305. He was the son of Dietrich VI, Count of Cleves and his wife Aleidis von Heinsberg. Dietrich adopted the strategy used in Holland, in the county of Cleves, methodically reclaiming territory with dikes and settling new residents.
Otto was Count of Cleves from 1305 through 1310.
Dietrich VIII was Count of Cleves from 1310 until his death in 1347.
Johann, was the last Count of Cleves, from 1347 through 1368. Upon his death in 1368, the counties of Cleves and Count of Mark were united.
William I of Berg was the son of Count Adolf VII of Berg and of Margaret of Hochstaden.
Adolf IX of Berg was the eldest son of Henry of Berg, Lord of Windeck and Agnes of the Mark.
Dietrich IX, Count of Mark (1374–1398) was the Count of Mark from 1393 until 1398.
Gerhard, Count zur Mark (1378–1461) was the de facto ruler of the County of Mark between 1430 and 1461.
Margaret of Cleves, also spelled Margaretha or Margarethe was the wife of Count Adolf II of the Marck and mother of Adolf III of the Marck. She was a daughter of Count Dietrich VIII of Cleves and Margaret of Guelders, who was a daughter of Reginald I of Guelders.
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