Duchy of Clèves

The county of Clèves , become at the 15th century duchy of Clèves is an old duchy of the Germanic Roman Holy roman Empire. He was member of the Cercle of Low-Rhine-Westphalia.

Geographical location

He is bordered in north by the Comté of Zutphem, in the east by the Comté of Marck and the territories of Cologne and Munster, with the south and the west by the Duché of Gueldre.

He was subdivided in three districts:

History

The first house of the counts de Clèves being itself extinct in 1368, the county échut with the counts of the Mark. The new county of Clèves it Mark was set up in duchy in 1417 by the emperor Sigismond. Later (1511), it was joins together with the duchies of Berg, of Juliers and with the Comté of Ravensberg. Of 1538 with 1543, the Duché of Gueldre formed part of it. With died of the duke Jean-Guillaume (1609), Clèves, the Mark and Ravensberg échurent with the house of Brandebourg, and the remainder at the house of Neubourg (Wittelsbach).

In 1701, the voter of Brandebourg became king de Prusse. The Prussia yielded to France the part on left bank of the the Rhine in 1795, then in 1805 the part on Right Bank. It went back to Prussia in 1814.

See also: List of the counts and dukes of Clèves

Armorial bearings

The county of Clèves carried: of mouths, with the money escutcheon, the rays of gold escarboucle, stitching on the whole

Sources

External bond

  • Edicts of Juliers, Clèves, Berg, Grand Duchy of Berg, 1475-1815 (coll Scotti) in line
  • Edicts of the duchy of Clèves and the county of Mark, 1418-1816 (coll Scotti) in line

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