Dietrich V, Count of Cleves

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Dietrich V, Count of Cleves
Born	1185 Kleve
Died	1260
Noble family	House of Cleves
Spouse(s)	Mathilda of Dinslaken Hedwig of Meissen
Father	Dietrich IV, Count of Cleves
Mother	Margaret of Holland

Dietrich V was Count of Cleves from 1201 through 1260. Dietrich was born about 1185 as the son of Dietrich IV, Count of Cleves and Margaret of Holland.^[1]

Possibly Dietrich V succeeded in 1198, under regency of Arnold II.

In 1234, he participated in the Stedinger Crusade.^[2]

Marriage and Issue[]

In c. 1215 he married Mathilda of Dinslaken (d. 1226).^[1] Their children were:

• Dietrich of Cleves (c.1216), married Elizabeth of Brabant^[1]
• Margaretha of Cleves (c.1218), married Otto II of Guelders^[1]

Secondly, he married Hedwig of Meissen (d. 1249), daughter of Theodoric I, Margrave of Meissen. Their children were:

• Dietrich VI of Cleves (c. 1226)
• Dietrich Luf I of Cleves (c. 1228)
• Agnes of Cleves (c. 1230)
• Jutta of Cleves (c. 1232)

References[]

Sources[]

• Maier, Christoph T. (1994). Preaching the Crusades: Mendicant Friars and the Cross in the Thirteenth Century. Cambridge University Press.
• Pollock, M. A. (2015). Scotland, England and France After the Loss of Normandy, 1204-1296: "Auld Amitie". The Boydell Press.

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