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Margareta von Ravensberg

Female - 1389


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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  Margareta von Ravensberg died on 13 Feb 1389.

    Notes:

    Countess of Ravensberg. Heiress of Berg.

    Margareta married Gerhard VI of Jülich in 1338. Gerhard (son of Wilhelm V-I and Johanna of Holland and Hainault) died on 18 May 1360. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 2. Wilhelm II-VII of Jülich  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1348; died on 25 Jun 1408.
    2. 3. Margarete of Ravensberg  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1350; died on 10 Oct 1425 in Burg Monterberg near Kalkar, Kleves, Westphalia, Germany.


Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Wilhelm II-VII of Jülich Descendancy chart to this point (1.Margareta1) was born about 1348; died on 25 Jun 1408.

    Notes:

    Duke of Berg and Jülich.

    Wilhelm married Anna of Rhein in 1363. Anna (daughter of Ruprecht II and Beatrix of Sicily-Aragón) was born in 1346; died on 30 Nov 1415. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 4. Margareta of Jülich  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1364; died on 18 Jun 1442 in Hardegsen, Lower Saxony, Germany; was buried in St. Mauritius, Hardegsen, Lower Saxony, Germany.

  2. 3.  Margarete of Ravensberg Descendancy chart to this point (1.Margareta1) was born about 1350; died on 10 Oct 1425 in Burg Monterberg near Kalkar, Kleves, Westphalia, Germany.

    Margarete married Adolf III about 1369. Adolf (son of Adolf II and Margaret of Kleve) was born in 1334; died on 7 Sep 1394 in Kleves, Westphalia, Germany; was buried in Kleves, Westphalia, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 5. Adolf I  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 26 Dec 1373 in Kleves, Westphalia, Germany; died on 23 Sep 1448 in Kleves, Westphalia, Germany; was buried in Wesel, Westphalia, Germany.


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  Margareta of Jülich Descendancy chart to this point (2.Wilhelm2, 1.Margareta1) was born about 1364; died on 18 Jun 1442 in Hardegsen, Lower Saxony, Germany; was buried in St. Mauritius, Hardegsen, Lower Saxony, Germany.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate death: 18 Jul 1442, Hardegsen, Lower Saxony, Germany

    Notes:

    Countess of Berg and Ravensberg.

    Margareta married Otto of Brunswick before 24 Jun 1379. Otto (son of Ernst of Brunswick and Elizabeth von Hessen) was born about 1340; died on 13 Dec 1394 in Hardegsen, Lower Saxony, Germany; was buried in Wiebrechtshausen monastery, Northeim, Lower Saxony, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 6. Elizabeth of Brunswick-Göttingen  Descendancy chart to this point died after 29 Sep 1444.

  2. 5.  Adolf I Descendancy chart to this point (3.Margarete2, 1.Margareta1) was born on 26 Dec 1373 in Kleves, Westphalia, Germany; died on 23 Sep 1448 in Kleves, Westphalia, Germany; was buried in Wesel, Westphalia, Germany.

    Notes:

    Duke of Kleve (Cleves). "[A] public-spirited ruler who simplified the legal system, insured the maintenance of dikes and drains throughout his lands, raised to Duke by the emperor Sigmund, preserved the independence of his duchy from the ambitions of his powerful neighbor Dietrich von Mörs, Archbishop of Cologne, strengthened by his Burgundian connections." [The Ancestry of Charles II, King of England (citation details below)]

    Adolf married Marie of Burgundy on 12 Jul 1406 in Arras, Pas-de-Calais, France. Marie (daughter of Jean of Burgundy and Margareta of Bavaria) was born in Jan 1394; died on 30 Oct 1463 in Burg Monterberg near Kalkar, Kleves, Westphalia, Germany; was buried in Bruges, Belgium. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 7. Katherina of Kleve  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 25 May 1417 in Kleves, Westphalia, Germany; died on 10 Feb 1476 in Lobith, Rijnwarden, Gelderland, Netherlands; was buried in Grave, Brabant, Netherlands.


Generation: 4

  1. 6.  Elizabeth of Brunswick-Göttingen Descendancy chart to this point (4.Margareta3, 2.Wilhelm2, 1.Margareta1) died after 29 Sep 1444.

    Notes:

    Duchess of Brunswick-Göttingen.

    Elizabeth married Erich of Brunswick between 1 Jul 1405 and 14 Jul 1405. Erich (son of Albrecht I of Brunswick and Agnes of Brunswick-Lüneburg) died on 28 May 1427; was buried in St. Alexander, Einbeck, Lower Saxony, germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 8. Anna of Brunswick-Grubenhagen  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1420; died on 9 Oct 1474 in Nannhofen, Bavaria, Germany; was buried in Andechs, Bavaria, Germany.

  2. 7.  Katherina of Kleve Descendancy chart to this point (5.Adolf3, 3.Margarete2, 1.Margareta1) was born on 25 May 1417 in Kleves, Westphalia, Germany; died on 10 Feb 1476 in Lobith, Rijnwarden, Gelderland, Netherlands; was buried in Grave, Brabant, Netherlands.

    Notes:

    "[F]orced into a political marriage at the age of thirteen, she grew to intensely dislike her husband, and after bearing him six children, left him in 1440 when aged twenty-three, later collaborated with her son against her husband, a patron of the arts, she commissioned a magnificent Book of Hours." [The Ancestry of Charles II, King of England (citation details below)]

    Katherina married Arnold van Egmond on 26 Jan 1430 in Kleves, Westphalia, Germany. Arnold (son of Jan II and Maria van Arkel) was born after 17 Jul 1410; died on 23 Feb 1473 in Grave, Brabant, Netherlands; was buried in Grave, Brabant, Netherlands. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 9. Mary of Guelders  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 17 Jan 1433 in Grave, Brabant, Netherlands; died on 1 Dec 1463 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland; was buried in Church of the Holy Trinity, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland.