John II, Duke of Cleves
John II, "The Babymaker", Duke of Cleves, Count of Mark, (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" since he fathered sixty-three illegitimate children before his marriage with Mathilde of Hesse in 1490.
She was the daughter of Henry III, Landgrave of Upper Hesse and his wife Anna of Katzenelnbogen.
They had three children :
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.
Karl Harst
Karl Harst( fl. 1540) was a sixteenth- century diplomat from the German Duchy of Cleves.
He was the Duke of Cleves' representative in London during the marriage of Henry VIII of England and his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves.
Maria of Jülich-Berg
Maria of Jülich- Berg
( 3 August 1491 – 29 August 1543) was born in Jülich, the daughter of Wilhelm IV, Duke of Jülich- Berg and Sibylle of Brandenburg.
Maria came from the line of German princesses that stretched back to Sybille of Brandenberg, Sophia of Saxony, and Adelaide of Teck.
Maria became heiress to her father's estates of Jülich, Berg and Ravensberg after his death in 1511.
In her marriage to John III, Duke of Cleves in 1509, Maria's estates and titles were eventually merged with the Duchy of Cleves.
John, who inherited the Duchy of Cleves- Mark in 1521, then became the first ruler of the United Duchies of Jülich- Cleves- Berg, which would exist until 1666.
She married John III, Duke of Cleves in 1509, by whom she had three daughters and a son.
Sybille( 1512–1554), William, Duke of Jülich- Cleves- Berg(" Wilhelm")( 1516–1592), Amalia( 1517– 1586), and Anne( 1515 –1557) who was Queen consort of England from 6 January 1540 to 9 July 1540 to King Henry VIII.
Maria was a strict, traditional Catholic and not a proponent of educating princesses and noble women, which by this point was the norm for the English nobility and gentry.
In" The Wives of Henry VIII", Antonia Fraser suggests that, following their marriage, one reason Henry VIII disliked her daughter
Anne so much was that, unlike his first two wives and many of the court ladies around him, Anne did not possess educational and musical accomplishments and was ill- equipped to function in the contentious English court.
Duchess Maria herself appears not to have favored sending her daughter to England.
She wrote in a later correspondence she loved her daughter so much that she was' loath to suffer her to depart her'.
Mary 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 1406.
He was made the 1st Duke of Cleves in 1417.
They were the grandparents of King Louis XII of France and the great- grandparents of John III, Duke of Cleves, father of Anne of Cleves, who was fourth Queen consort of Henry VIII of England.
By their daughter, Catherine, they were ancestors of Mary, Queen of Scots.
The Duke and Duchess of Cleves lived at Wijnendale Castle in West Flanders.
She died in Cleves in present- day Monterberg, Kalkar.
John III, Duke of Cleves
John III "the Peaceful", Duke of Cleves and Count of Mark
(John III, Duke of Cleves;
John I, Duke of Jülich-Berg; ; 10 November 1490 – 6 February 1538 or 1539) was a son of John II, Duke of Cleves and Mathilde of Hesse, daughter of Henry III, Landgrave of Upper Hesse.
John III became Regent of the United Duchies of Jülich-Cleves-Berg in 1521, and Lord of Ravensberg in 1528.
John represented a compensatory attitude, which strove for a , a middle way, between the two confessions during the Protestant Reformation.
Despite what others may have thought, not all Germanic princely houses were Lutheran Protestant.
In fact the real influence at the court of Cleves was Erasmus.
Many of his men were friends and followers of this well-educated Dutch scholar and theologian.
When Duke John decided to write up a list of church regulations, Erasmus was the first person the Duke went to personally for consultation and approval.
Duke John had an instinct for balance as was shown when he married his eldest daughter Sybille to John Frederick of Saxony.
John Frederick would go on to later head the Schmalkaldic League.
In many ways John of Cleves' court was ideal for raising a Queen.
It was fundamentally liberal, but serious-minded, theologically inclined, profoundly Erasmian; as the court of Catherine of Aragon had once been.
It was from this court that his daughter Anne would be raised.
Anne would go on to marry King Henry VIII of England as his fourth wife.
Elisabeth of Cleves, Countess of Schwarzburg-Blankenburg
Elisabeth of Cleves was the daughter of Adolph I, Duke of Cleves and Marie of Burgundy, Duchess of Cleves.
She married Count Henry XXVI of Schwarzburg- Blankenburg, on July 15, 1434.
Amalia of Cleves
Amalia of Cleves( 17 October 1517, Düsseldorf – 1 March 1586, Düsseldorf), sometimes spelled as Amelia, was a princess from the House of Von der Mark.
She was the fourth and youngest child of John III, Duke of Cleves, and his wife Maria of Jülich- Berg, born shortly after the birth of her brother William.
Amalia and her siblings had a rather grand lineage.
She was descended from both the kings of England and France, and was closely related to Louis XII of France and the duke of Burgundy.
Margaret of Cleves, Duchess of Bavaria-Munich
Margaret of Cleves( 1416–1444) was a German noblewoman.
She was the eldest daughter of Adolph I, Duke of Cleves and his second wife Marie of Burgundy.
She married
John I, Duke of Cleves
John I, Duke of Cleves, Count of Mark( 16 February 1419 – 5 September 1481) was Duke of Cleves and Count of Mark.

Question: Who is John Iii, Duke Of Cleves's paternal grandfather?
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