Elizabeth of Nevers

Elisabeth of Burgundy ( * after August 24, 1439 in Nevers, † June 21, 1483 ) was by marriage to John I of Cleves - Mark from 1455 until her death Duchess of Kleve. She is the matriarch of the house of Cleves - Nevers and thus of Cleves line of the counts and dukes of Nevers, because the territory was part of their heritage and fell after Elizabeth's death to her son Engelbert.

Life

Elisabeth came as a first-born child of John II of Burgundy, Count of Etampes, Nevers, Rethel and Eu, and his first wife, Jacqueline d' Ailly to the world. Since Elizabeth's younger brother died at the age of only five years, and her father therefore had no male offspring, he appointed his eldest daughter to the heiress of the counties of Nevers and Eu.

On April 22, 1456 Elizabeth married her cousin in Bruges 3rd degree, the Klever Duke John I. After the marriage of Mary of Burgundy and II Adolf of Cleves, the connection between Elizabeth and John was the second marriage between the Klever sex and the House of Burgundy was closed. She made the Duchy of Cleves for the next 100 years to become a kind of Burgundian branch, which primarily reflected in the cultural life. The courtly life, but also the administrative practice Klever territory oriented under John I increasingly at the Burgundian model.

When her husband after the death of Guelders Duke Adolf of Egmond Maximilian of Austria while supported to enforce its acquired through marriage to Mary of Burgundy claims to the Duchy of funds against the resistance of Adolf's sister Catherine, Elizabeth led during John's absence, the business of government in Kleve.

The marriage between Elizabeth and John I had six children:

  • John II (* April 13, 1458, † March 15, 1521 ), Duke of Cleves, ∞ November 3, 1489 Mathilda of Hesse
  • Adolf ( * April 28, 1461, † April 4, 1498 ), canon of Liege
  • Engelbert (* September 26, 1462, † November 21, 1506 ), Count of Nevers and Eu ∞ February 23, 1489 Charlotte de Bourbon
  • Dietrich (* June 29, 1464; † young)
  • Marie ( August 8, 1465 *, † October 7, 1513 )
  • Philipp (* January 1, 1467, † March 5, 1505 ), Bishop of Nevers ( 1500-1505 ), Amiens ( 1501-1503 ) and Autun ( 1505)

Elisabeth died on June 21, 1483 before her father. Heritage of their claims to the counties of Nevers and Eu was her third son Engelbert, who founded the line Kleve - Nevers. The joint tomb with her husband standing in the Collegiate Church of St. Assumption in Kleve. This is a Schiefertumba, which is covered with engraved and gilded copper plates. The cover plate made ​​on behalf of Charles of Egmond shows the two deceased and one of the few pictures of Elizabeth. The tomb is one of the most important works of its kind

Isabella of Burgundy, Queen of Germany John I, Duke of Cleves Engelbert, Count of Nevers John II, Count of Nevers Adolph I, Duke of Cleves Adolf, Duke of Guelders John II, Duke of Cleves Philip of Cleves (bishop) Charles II, Duke of Guelders
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