Arnold I, Count of Cleves

Arnold I of Cleves (* 1100, † February 20, 1147 ) was from 1119 to 1147 Count of Kleve.

Life

Arnold I. succeeded as the second Earl of Cleves to expand the territories of his father Dietrich I. greatly to the disadvantage of the lower Rhine and monasteries of Cologne bishop. Thus, the Vogt rights over the holdings situated in the Cologne Xanten monastery of St. Victor and monastery Furstenberg and local advocacy of the Xanten possessions him were transferred to the Hetter 1119-1122. Through his marriage to Ida of Brabant in 1128 came as a dowry to the location in Wesel possession of the Abbey of Echternach and the Weselerwald Count Chat to Kleve, also became Count Arnold Vogt rights over the monastery Wesel Oberndorf. He also founded the monastery founded by Bedburg Norbert of Xanten and let the pen of St. Clement restore in Wissel. From 1126 Arnold was at the court of the bishop of Utrecht, the vassal was to be his son Dietrich II.

Count Arnold of Cleves was buried in the collegiate church Klever.

• Graf ( Kleve )
• German
• Born in the 11th or 12th century
• Died in 1147
• Man