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William Iv of Jülich-Cleves-Berg was born on month day 1516, in birth place, to Duke John Cleves, III and Maria of Cleves, III (born Jülich-Berg). William had 3 sisters: Sibylle Of Sachsen Formerly Wettin (born Of Cleves) and 2 other siblings .
William was the son of Gerhard VII, Duke of Jülich-Berg and Sophie of Saxe-Lauenburg. When his father died in 1475, William became Duke of Jülich-Berg. He married the rich Countess Elisabeth of Nassau-Saarbrücken in 1472, but she died in 1479. In 1481, William remarried with Sibylle of Brandenburg, daughter of Albert III Achilles, Elector of ...
When John III succeeded his father as Duke of Cleves in 1521, the states of Jülich, Berge, Cleves and Mark formed the United Duchies of Jülich-Cleves-Berg. His daughter Anne of Cleves (1515–1557) even became Queen Consort of England for a few months in 1540, as her brother William , duke since 1539, quarrelled with Emperor Charles V over ...
William of Jülich-Cleves-Berge (William I of Cleves, William V of Jülich-Berg) (German: Wilhelm der Reiche; 28 July 1516 – 5 January 1592) was a Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg (1539–1592).William was born in and died in Düsseldorf. He was the only son of John III, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg, and Maria, Duchess of Jülich-Berg. William took over rule of his father's estates (the Duchy of ...
The War of the Jülich Succession or the Jülich-Cleves War was a political and military conflict, composed primarily of a series of sieges and conquests, between Wolfgang William, Duke of Palatinate-Neuburg, supported by Spain and the Catholic League (from 1613),[3] John Sigismund, Elector of Brandenburg, supported by the United Provinces and the Kingdom of England,[3] and Rudolph II, Holy ...
John William, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg. Antonia of Lorraine (1568–1610) was a French aristocrat. [1] The daughter of duke Charles III of Lorraine, and Claude of Valois, she was styled as the Duchess of Jülich-Kleve-Berg. [2] She was married to John William, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg. They did not have children.
Maria of Austria, Duchess of Jülich-Cleves-Berg. Archduchess Maria of Austria (15 May 1531 – 11 December 1581) was the daughter of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor from the House of Habsburg and Anna of Bohemia and Hungary . She married William, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg on 18 July 1546 as his second wife.
