Johann (1293-1368), was the last

Count of Cleves The Duchy of Cleves (; ) was a state of the Holy Roman Empire which emerged from the medieval . 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, Emmer ...

, from 1347 through 1368. Upon his death in 1368, the counties of Cleves and

Count of Mark The County of Mark (, colloquially known as ) was a county and Imperial State, state of the Holy Roman Empire in the Lower Rhenish–Westphalian Circle. It lay south of Lippe (river), Lippe river on both sides of the Ruhr river along the Volme a ...

were united. Johann was the youngest son of

Dietrich VII, Count of Cleves 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 re ...

and his second wife Margaret of Habsburg. He succeeded in 1347 his brother

Dietrich VIII, Count of Cleves Dietrich VIII ( – 7 July 1347) was Count of Cleves from 1310 until his death in 1347. Dietrich was the son of Dietrich VII, Count of Cleves and his second wife Margaret of Habsburg. He succeeded in 1310 his half-brother Otto, Count of Cle ...

who had died without sons. He married Mechteld of Guelders († 1384), daughter of

Reginald II, Duke of Guelders Reginald II of Guelders (), called "the Black" (c. 1295 – 12 October 1343), was Count of Guelders, and from 1339 onwards Duke of Guelders, and Zutphen, in the Low Countries, from 1326 to 1343. He was the son of Reginald I of Guelders and Margue ...

, but the marriage remained childless. Dimphéna Groffen, Mechteld van Gelre, in: Digitaal Vrouwenlexicon van Nederland. URL: https://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/vrouwenlexicon/lemmata/data/Mechteld van Gelre 0/01/2020/ref> After his death, the County of Cleves went to

Adolf III of the Marck Adolph III of the Marck (German: ''Adolf III von der Mark''; – 1394) was the Prince-Bishop of Münster (as Adolph) from 1357 to 1363, the Archbishop-Elector of Cologne (as Adolph II) in 1363, the Count of Cleves (as Adolph I) from 1368 to 139 ...

and so to the Counts of Marck.

References

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