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Adolph I, Duke of Cleves. Mother. Marie of Burgundy. Arms of Adolph of Cleves, Lord of Ravenstein. Adolph of Cleves, Lord of Ravenstein (1425–1492) was the youngest son of Adolph I, Duke of Cleves, and of his wife Marie of Burgundy, a sister of Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy .
In 1397 he defeated his uncle William VII of Jülich, 1st Duke of Berg in the battle of Kleverhamm and became Lord of Ravenstein. When his brother Dietrich IX, Count of Mark died in battle in 1398, he also became Count of Mark. Adolph further expanded his influence by marrying a daughter of the Duke of Burgundy.
Adolph of Cleves, Lord of Ravenstein (1425–1492) Mary (1426–1487), Duchess of Orléans; Dietrich II (1374–1398) Counts of Marck—Arenberg Arenberg coat of arms, Siebmacher, about 1605. Eberhard I (d. about 1378) Lord of Arenberg. Erard II von der Mark, Lord of Sedan & Arenberg Johann II von der Mark, Lord of Sedan & Arenberg
Adolph of Cleves, Lord of Ravenstein (1425–1492) was the youngest son of Adolph I, Duke of Cleves, and of his wife Marie of Burgundy, a sister of Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy.
Abstract. This Book of Hours was completed in the 1480s for Adolph, duke of Cleves, count of La Mack, lord of Ravenstein and Wijnendale (1425-92), and member of the entourage of the dukes of Burgundy until 1477 and thereafter in a position of personal trust under Archduke Maximilian, husband of Mary of Burgundy (d. 1482).
Cleves, who was succeeded in 1448 by his elder brother John, Adolf received the Braban5on lordships of Ravenstein, near s'Hertogenbosch, and Herpen in I450. The castle and lordships of Ravenstein had entered the patrimony of the house of Cleves in I397, as part of a ransom payment by Jean, Count of Salm, to Adolphe de la Marck, Count of
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