Elisabeth of Cleves was the daughter of
Adolph I, Duke of Cleves
Adolph I of Cleves (german: Adolf I) (2 August 1373 – 23 September 1448) was the second Count of Cleves and the fourth Count of Mark.
Life
He was the son of Adolph III, Count of Mark, and Margaret of Jülich (and thus the brother of Marga ...
and
Marie of Burgundy, Duchess of Cleves
Mary of Burgundy, Duchess of Cleves (1393 – 30 October 1466) was the second child of John the Fearless and Margaret of Bavaria, and an elder sister of Philip the Good.
Born in Dijon, she became the second wife of Adolph, Count of Mark in May ...
. She married Count Henry XXVI of
Schwarzburg Schwarzburg may refer to:
* Schwarzburg (municipality)
* The House of Schwarzburg
* Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
* Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
* House of Schwarzburg
* 13th-century fortress built by the Teutonic Order in Transylvania, present day Codlea
...
-
Blankenburg Blankenburg may refer to:
Places
* Blankenburg am Harz, a German town in the district of Harz, Saxony-Anhalt
* Blankenburg Castle (Harz), the castle in Blankenburg am Harz (see above)
* Bad Blankenburg, a German town in the Saalfeld-Rudolstadt dis ...
, on July 15, 1434.
Children
Together, they had eleven children:
*Günther XXXVI (July 8, 1439 –
Rudolstadt, December 30, 1503);
*Henry XXVII (November 13, 1440 – December 14, 1496),
Archbishop
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of
Bremen
Bremen (Low German also: ''Breem'' or ''Bräm''), officially the City Municipality of Bremen (german: Stadtgemeinde Bremen, ), is the capital of the German state Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (''Freie Hansestadt Bremen''), a two-city-state consis ...
;
*Catherine (February 2, 1442 – November 9, 1484), married
Busso VII of Mansfeld and
Sigmund I of Gleichen-Tonna;
*Günther XXXVII (June 8, 1443);
*Henry XXVIII (January 8, 1447 – Bremen, 1481), Canon in
Cologne and
Mainz;
*Günther XXXVIII (Rudolstadt, 1450 – Bremen, November 29, 1484) married
Catherine of Querfurt and
Anna of Gleichen;
*Henry XXIX (August 10, 1452 – March 31, 1499), Canon at
Hildesheim;
*Günther XXXIX (May 30, 1455 –
Arnstadt
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, August 8, 1521), married
Amalia of Mansfeld;
*Heinrich XXX (December 31, 1456 – Arnstadt, June 12, 1522), Canon in
Strasbourg
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and
Jechasburg;
*Maria (June 16, 1458);
*Mary (November 4, 1459 – December 1459).
Ancestry
See also
*
Duchy of Cleves
References
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1420 births
1488 deaths
People from the Duchy of Cleves
House of La Marck