Adolph II of the Marck (died 19/20 October 1347, Fröndenberg) was

Count of the Marck The County of Mark (, colloquially known as ) was a county and state of the Holy Roman Empire in the Lower Rhenish–Westphalian Circle. It lay south of Lippe river on both sides of the Ruhr river along the Volme and Lenne rivers. The Counts d ...

. He was the eldest son of

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and Mechtild of Arenberg. Adolph was betrothed to Irmgard of Cleves, daughter of

Otto, Count of Cleves Otto (1278 – October 29, 1310) was Count of Cleves from 1305 through 1310. Otto was the eldest son of Dietrich VII, Count of Cleves (1256–1305) and his first wife Margaret of Guelders. His first marriage was to Adelheid van der Marck, dau ...

and his (second) wife Mechtild of Virneburg. After obtaining a papal dispensation Adolf was allowed to marry Margaret of Cleves, the daughter of

Dietrich VIII, Count of Cleves Dietrich VIII ( – 7 July 1347) was Count of Cleves from 1310 until his death in 1347. Dietrich was the son of Dietrich VII, Count of Cleves and his second wife Margaret of Habsburg. He succeeded in 1310 his half-brother Otto, Count of Cle ...

and Margaret of Guelders. Adolph and Margaret of Cleves had seven children: *

Engelbert III, Count of the Marck Engelbert III of the Mark (1333–1391) was the Count of Mark from 1347 until 1391. Adolph was the eldest son of Count Adolph II of the Marck and Margaret of Cleves. After his father died in 1347, Engelbert III ruled the County of Mark, mainly f ...

(28 Feb 1333 – Wetter, 22 Dec 1391). Married 1) Richardis of Jülich, 2) Elisabeth of Sponheim. *

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(1334 – 7 Sep 1394, Cleves). Archbishop of Cologne 1363–1364. Later Count of Cleves and of the Marck * Dietrich of the Marck (1336 – 25 May 1406). Bishop of Liège 1389, from which post he later resigned. * Eberhard of the Marck (1341 – after 1360). Priest at Münster. * Margareta of the Marck († 12 Sep 1409). Married

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* Mechtild of the Marck († after 18 Oct 1390). Married Eberhard of Isenburg-Grenzau. * Elisabeth of the Marck married Gumprecht of Heppendorf.

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