Mary of Burgundy, Duchess of Cleves
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Marie, Duchess of Orléans | |
| House | Valois-Burgundy |
| Father | John the Fearless |
| Mother | Margaret of Bavaria |
Mary of Burgundy, Duchess of Cleves (1393 – 30 October 1466) was the second child of John the Fearless and Margaret of Bavaria,[1] and an elder sister of Philip the Good.[2]
Born in
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.
Influence
At the death of
Benedictine monastery of Bologna and decided with his mother to found a similar monastery in Kalkar, which would be built to house a dozen monks.[3] Construction began in 1453 and was complete by 1457.[4] The buildings housed numerous works of art and a large library. After secularization in 1802, the church and most of the buildings were demolished, works of art spread throughout the surrounding churches, notably in the Church of St. Nicholas
in Kalkar. From the monastery only a part of a wall remains.
The city was driven by development of the wool weaving industry. The wealthy
humanist
, lawyer, educator and farmer, periodically resided in Kalkar. This flourishing period ended in the mid-sixteenth century, when, after the fall of weaving activities, epidemics of plague decimated the population.
Issue
| Duke of Burgundy House of Valois, Burgundian branch |
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| John the Good |
| Philip the Bold |
| John the Fearless |
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| Philip the Good |
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| Charles the Bold |
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| Mary of Burgundy |
- Margaret (23 February 1416 – 20 May 1444), married first William III, Duke of Bavaria on 11 May 1433, second Ulrich V, Count of Württembergon 29 January 1441
- Guelders, mother of Mary of Guelders, Queen consort of Scotland
- John I, Duke of Cleves (16 February 1419 – 5 September 1481); married on 22 April 1455 Elizabeth of Nevers
- Elisabeth of Cleves (1 October 1420 – March 1488); married on 15 July 1434 Henry XXVI of Schwarzburg-Blankenburg (1418–1488)
- Charles IV, King of Navarre
- Helen of Cleves (1423–1471); married on 12 February 1436 Brunswick-Lüneburg(c. 1411–1473)
- Peter, Duke of Coimbra
- Louis XII, King of France
Ancestry
| Ancestors of Mary of Burgundy, Duchess of Cleves Ludwik I the Fair | | |||||||||||||||
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| 29. Margaret of Bohemia | ||||||||||||||||
| 7. Margaret of Brieg | ||||||||||||||||
| 30. Henry IV the Faithful | ||||||||||||||||
| 15. Agnes of Glogau | ||||||||||||||||
| 31. Matilde of Brandenburg | ||||||||||||||||
References
- ^ Janet Backhouse (1997). The illuminated page: ten centuries of manuscript painting in the British Library. p. 166.
- ^ Aline S. Taylor (2002). Isabel of Burgundy. p. 64.
- ^ « Dominikaner in Kalkar » sur kirchesite.de.
- ^ « Die Dominikaner in Kalkar » Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine sur le site KLE-point.
- ^ de Sousa, Antonio Caetano (1735). Historia genealogica da casa real portugueza (in Portuguese). Lisbon: Lisboa Occidental. p. 147.
Further reading
- Early Netherlandish painting: its origins and character, Volume 2, Erwin Panofsky, 1971
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