Otto, Count of Cleves

Otto von Kleve ( * 1278, † October 29, 1310 in Horstmar ) was 1305-1310 Count of Kleve.

Life

Otto was in 1278, the eldest son of Count Dietrich VI. born of Cleves and his first wife Margaret of Geldern, a subsidiary of Count Otto of money. Since 1297 he is mentioned as the young Count of Cleves and finally succeeds his deceased father on October 4, 1305. He had to deal with the demands of his stepmother Margaret of Neu- Kyburg and his half-brothers and Johann Dietrich.

1308 Otto married Mechtild of Virneburg, a niece of the Archbishop of Cologne, Henry II of Virneburg. After Otto's early death Mechthild tried together with her great-uncle and the Counts of the Mark, the inheritance rights of her only daughter Irmgard of Kleve enforce. However, the successor in Kleve eventually joined his half-brother Dietrich VII. / IX. of.

His daughter Irmgard († 1362 ) was first married to Adolf II of Mark. She was divorced from him in 1324 to 1324 she then married John of Arkel († 1355 ).