John II, "The Babymaker",

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of Cleves, Count of

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, ( German: Johann II. "der Kindermacher", Herzog von Kleve, Graf von Mark) (13 April 1458 – 15 March 1521) was a son of John I, Duke of Cleves and Elizabeth of Nevers. He ruled Cleves from 1481 to his death in 1521. He was called "The Babymaker" as he had fathered sixty-three illegitimate childrenLa Societe Numismatique, Revue de la numismatique belge, Brussels, 1863, page 234 prior to his marriage with Mathilde of Hesse in 1489. AnnaVonKleve

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awarded John the Golden Rose of Virtue on 15 April 1489. This is remarkable in light of the fact that John, with his alleged 63 illegitimate children, had the dubious reputation of being a "child maker". From then on, John called himself "Johann von Kleve, Count of La Marck and Katzenelnbogen".

Marriage and issue

John married Matilda of Hesse, daughter of Henry III, Landgrave of Upper Hesse and Anna of Katzenelnbogen, on 3 November 1489 in Soest. They had: *

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(1490–1539), succeeded as Duke of Cleves and Count of the Marck * Anna (1495–1567), married in 1518 with count Philip III of Waldeck-Eisenberg * Adolf (1498–1525), appointed by his father's cousin

Philip of Cleves, Lord of Ravenstein Philip of Cleves (1459 in Le Quesnoy – 28 January 1528 in Wijnendale Castle), Lord of Ravenstein, Wijnendale and Enghien, was a nobleman from the Burgundian Netherlands, Low Countries and army commander, first for Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emp ...

and Wijnendale, as his successor, but died before Philip did in 1528 With Catherine de Chaumont: * Hermann of Cleves seigneur d'Afnois, d'

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and Saligny (1458-1532), married Leonarde Perreau, legitimized in 1506. With unknown mothers: * Helena (or Hedwig) of Cleves (1480-?), married Otto van Büren * Joos (Judocus) of Cleves (1485-1541) * Wilhelm of Cleves (c. 1495 -?) * Marten of Cleves * Hendrik of Cleves * Katharina of Cleves, married Johann von Asschebroick and secondly Johann von Loe * Elisabeth of Cleves, married Gobert van Bemmel * Dietrich of Cleves (?-1493) * Johann of Cleves * Adolf of Cleves, married Agnes von Hessen zu Hulhausen File:Armoiries de la Marck 1.svg, Coat-of-arms of
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Cleves

Ancestry

References

Sources

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External links

Genealogy of Jülich-Cleves
Accessed July 28, 2008 {{Authority control Dukes of Cleves House of La Marck 1458 births 1521 deaths Counts of the Mark