page_title: House of La Marck
section_title: Dukes of Cleves—La Mark
hierarchical_section_title: House of La Marck / Simplified genealogy / Dukes of Cleves—La Mark
caption_attribution_description: Scheibler'sches Wappenbuch , älterer Teil Cleve
context_page_description: La Marck was a noble family, which from about 1200 appeared as the counts of Mark.
context_section_description: Adolf III (1334–1394), second son of Adolf II with Margaret of Cleves, Prince-bishop of Münster 1357–1363 and Archbishop of Cologne in 1363, inherited the County of Cleves upon the death of his maternal uncle Count Johann in 1368 and became Count of Mark upon the death of his elder brother Engelbert III in 1391
  Adolph I (1373–1448), Duke of Cleves from 1417
  Margaret of Cleves, Duchess of Bavaria-Munich (1416–1444)
  Catherine of Cleves, Duchess of Guelders (1417–1479)
  John I (1419–1481)
  John II (1458–1521)
  John III (1490–1539), married Maria of Jülich-Berg in 1509, inherited the duchies of Jülich and Berg and the County of Ravensberg upon the death of his father-in-law Duke William IV of Jülich-Berg, ruled the United Duchies of Jülich-Cleves-Berg upon the death of his father in 1521
  Sybille (1512–1554), married to Elector John Frederick of Saxony
  Anne (1515–1557), married to King Henry VIII of England
  William the Rich (1516–1592), married Maria of Habsburg, Archduchess of Austria and daughter of Emperor Ferdinand I, claimed the Duchy of Guelders upon the death of Duke Charles in 1538
  Marie Eleonore (1550–1608), married to Albert Frederick, Duke of Prussia
  John Frederick (1555–1575)
  John William (1562–1609), extinction of the line, followed by the War of the Jülich succession
  Amalia (1517–1586)
  Engelbert, Count of Nevers (1462–1506)
  Elisabeth (1420–1488), Countess of Schwarzburg
  Agnes (1422–1446), Queen of Navarre
  Adolph of Cleves, Lord of Ravenstein (1425–1492)
  Mary (1426–1487), Duchess of Orléans
  Dietrich II (1374–1398)
caption: Cleves-La Mark coat of arms, 15th century
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