United Duchies of Jülich-Cleves-Berg

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United Duchies of Jülich-Cleves-Berg
Vereinigte Herzogtümer Jülich-Kleve-Berg (de)
Verenigde Hertogdommen Gulik-Kleef-Berg (nl)
1521–1614
Coat of arms of Jülich-Cleves-Berg
Coat of arms
State of Holy Roman Empire
)
CapitalDüsseldorf
Common languagesvarious closely related West Germanic varieties, e.g.
Duke of Jülich-Berg
1521
• Partitioned at Xanten
12 November 1614
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Duchy of Berg
Duchy of Cleves
Duchy of Jülich
County of Mark
County of Ravensberg
Margraviate of Brandenburg
Palatinate-Neuburg
Today part ofGermany
Netherlands

The United Duchies of Jülich-Cleves-Berg was a territory in the Holy Roman Empire between 1521 and 1666, formed from the personal union of the duchies of Jülich, Cleves and Berg.

The name was resurrected after the Congress of Vienna for province of Jülich-Cleves-Berg of the Kingdom of Prussia between 1815 and 1822. Its territory is today split between the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the Dutch province of Gelderland.

History

Map of Jülich-Cleves-Berg including the province of Gelderland (around 1540)

The United Duchies of Jülich-Cleves-Berg was a combination of states of the

Münster
.

Only a century after John III's marriage, however, the united ducal line fell extinct, prompting a war over the succession to the territories. The grandson of John III —

dukes of Saxony—the former particularly worrying to Henry IV of France and the Dutch Republic, who feared any strengthening of the Habsburg Netherlands
.

The

William the Rich
.

Philip Louis' grandson

Kings in Prussia; with Cleves-Mark as their first possession in western Germany, it was the seed of the future Prussian Rhineland
.

Dukes of Jülich-Cleves-Berg, House of La Marck

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