Otto, Count of Cleves

From Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core
Jump to: navigation, search

Otto (1278 – Horstmar, October 29, 1310) was Count of Cleves[1] from 1305 through 1310.

Otto was the eldest son of Dietrich VII, Count of Cleves (1256–1305) and his first wife Margaret of Guelders.
He married first Adelheid van der Marck, daughter of Engelbert I, Count of the Mark and secondly Mechtildis of Virneburg, a niece of Heinrich II of Virneburg.
They had one daughter Irmgard, who married Adolph II of the Marck and later John IV of Arkel.

When he died in 1310 he was succeeded by his half-brother Dietrich VIII.

References

  1. Niederrheins Urkundenbuch, Band III, 96
Preceded by Count of Cleves
1305–1310
Succeeded by
Dietrich VIII