Dietrich V, Count of Cleves

Dietrich IV. / VI. of Cleves (c. 1185, † May 13 or June 26, 1260 ) (also: Dietrich Nust ) was the only son of Count Dietrich III / V.. of Cleves and of Margaret of Holland, daughter of Count Florence III. He was Count of Cleves from about 1202 to 1260. While he. Than in the earlier research Dietrich VI is ( sometimes referred to as Dietrich V. ) referred to, he is the younger, based on Kraus research, as Dietrich IV counted.

Life

Dietrich followed underage his father and was the real founder of the territorial state Kleve. He promoted the very settlement of the country and founded castles and cities, among others, Wesel, Kleve, Kalkar and Grieth. He finally went in the German struggle for the throne until 1214 for later Emperor Frederick II and got from him all fiefs confirmed. In 1203 he reached the Erbkrieg in Holland in favor of his niece Adelheid ( Ada ), but are able to help her actually. He belonged to the opposition Engelbert I of Cologne without having been involved in his assassination in 1225. He supported the Archbishop of Bremen in his " crusade " against the Stedinger farmers, made the 1234 Battle of Altenesch and stayed as the other Great of Westphalia, in contrast to the archbishops of Cologne. He supported 1247 King William of Holland, who confirmed him all the fiefs. He reached in 1248 in the Flanders - Erbkrieg against the house of Dampierre- Namur was won, among other Gahlen, Castrop, Mengede, Hülchrath in Neuss and the Bailiwick of Willibrord in Wesel and Dinslaken and strengthened the position of the house on the Lower Rhine. After the early death of his son Dietrich primogenitus informs Count Dietrich rule in 1255 under his remaining sons Dietrich V. / VII. and Dietrich on Luf, who came from his second marriage with Hedwig of Meissen. Shortly before his death was the Dietrich Monterberg castle at Kalkar rebuild.