Duke Johann Wilhelm of Jülich-Cleves-Berg

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His parents were William the Rich, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg (1516–92) and Maria of Austria (1531–81), a daughter of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor and Anna of Bohemia and Hungary.

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Some believe that Duke John William, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg had a morganatic marriage prior to 1585 with Anna op den Graeff (van de Aldekerk), with whom he had a son, Herman op den Graeff.[2][3] No substantial evidence of any relation between the Op den Graeff and John William, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg has ever been presented, so most likely that connection is non-existent.

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• http://www.thepeerage.com/p4298.htm#i42978

Johann Wilhelm Graf von der Mark Herzog von Kleve Jülich und Berg1 M, #42978, b. 29 May 1562, d. 1609 Last Edited=12 Mar 2013 Consanguinity Index=0.59%
Johann Wilhelm Graf von der Mark Herzog von Kleve Jülich und Berg was born on 29 May 1562.1 He was the son of Wilhelm IV von der Mark Herzog von Kleve Jülich und Berg en Gelre and Maria Erzherzogin von Österreich. He married Jacoba von Baden-Baden on 16 June 1585.1 He married Antoinette de Lorraine, daughter of Charles III, Duc de Lorraine and Claude de Valois, Princesse de France, on 20 June 1599.1 He died in 1609.
He gained the title of Herzog von Jülich. He gained the title of Herzog von Kleve. He gained the title of Herzog von Berg. Citations [S3268] Hans Harmsen, "re: Chester Family," e-mail message to Darryl Roger Lundy, 21 August 2008. Hereinafter cited as "re: Chester Family."

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• https://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p3183.htm...

Johann Wilhelm, Duke of Kleve, Berg, & Jülich, Graf von der Mark, von Ravensberg, & von Mörs1 Last Edited 28 Jul 2019 M, #95601, b. 28 May 1562, d. 25 March 1609 Father Wilhelm 'the Rich', Duke of Kleve, Julich, & Berg, Graf von der Mark & Ravensberg1 b. 28 Jul 1516, d. 5 Jan 1592 Mother Marie von Habsburg1 b. 15 May 1531, d. 11 Dec 1581
Johann Wilhelm, Duke of Kleve, Berg, & Jülich, Graf von der Mark, von Ravensberg, & von Mörs was born on 28 May 1562 at Kleve, Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.1 He married Jacobäa von Baden, daughter of Philibert, Markgraf von Baden and Mechtild of Bavaria, on 16 June 1585 at Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.2 Johann Wilhelm, Duke of Kleve, Berg, & Jülich, Graf von der Mark, von Ravensberg, & von Mörs married Antoinette of Lorraine, daughter of Charles III, Duke of Lorraine & Bar and Claude d' Orleans, on 20 June 1599.1 Johann Wilhelm, Duke of Kleve, Berg, & Jülich, Graf von der Mark, von Ravensberg, & von Mörs died on 25 March 1609 at Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, at age 46.1 Family 1 Jacobäa von Baden b. 16 Jan 1558, d. 3 Nov 1597 Child Herman Opdengraeff+3 b. 26 Nov 1585, d. 27 Dec 1642 Family 2 Antoinette of Lorraine b. 23 Aug 1568, d. 23 Aug 1610 Citations [S2] Detlev Schwennicke, Europaische Stammtafeln, New Series, Vol. XVIII, Tafel 17. [S2] Detlev Schwennicke, Europaische Stammtafeln, New Series, Vol. I/2, Tafel 268. [S11597] Ancestry.com, Submitted by Mark Stallings.

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Title Of Nobility: Graeff Von Alten (the count of Altena) Herzog(Duke)of Cleves of the House of La Marck

Occupation: Bishop of Munster Between Jan 11 1574 and Dec 31 1584 Muenster, Rheinland, Preussen, Germany

Johan Wilhelm De La Marck, son of Wilheln V Von Cleves and Maria Von Habsburg, (Johan Wilhelm De La Marck was born in 1562 in Germany and died on 25 Mar 1609 in Germany.)

John William (German: Johann Wilhelm, Herzog zu Kleve, Julich und Berg; 28 May 1562 – 25 March 1609) was a Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg.

His parents were William the Rich, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg (1516–92) and Maria of Austria (1531–81), a daughter of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor and Anna of Bohemia and Hungary. He grew up and was educated in Xanten. John William became Bishop of Münster. However, he was needed to succeed his father as Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg, a secular fief. He was also Count of Altena. The United Duchies of Jülich-Cleves-Berg was a combination of reichsfrei states within the Holy Roman Empire.

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Descendants of Ferdinand Habsburg, Holy Roman Emperor

3. Johann Wilhelm de la Marck Graf van Altena of Kleves.13 Born on 28 May,1562. Johann Wilhelm died on 25 Mar 1609; he was 46.

Sixth and last Duke of Cleves, Count of Moers, Lord of Krefeld, Graff van Altena, Graff van de Alderkerk. 1584 Catholic Canon of Cologne who became 1592 the

Protestant Bishop of Munster and Comte de la Marck. Considered that son Herman was the result of marriage to a woman not of the nobility, and hence not entitled

to royal succession or privileges.

G. W. Miller 1991, "Reconstructing the Op Den Graff windows of 1630 A.D. to fit the Lohengrin Genealogy of the House of Cleves," Krefeld Immigrants and Their

Descendants, vol. 8, #1, pp. 9-28. Graeff von Alten (Count of Altena). 1585, married Jacobea of Baden-Baden. 1592, became Protestant Bishop of Muenster and the last Duke (Herzog) of Cleves of the House of La Marck (a branch of the House of Boulogne, itself a branch of the Lohengrin family which allegedly can be traced back to the fifth century) upon the death of his father. 1599, married Antonia of Lorraine. 1609, died without an heir to his feudal title. No non-royal children

mentioned, but it is argued that they would have been given the patronymic "op den Graff" (of the Count), "zu Graff" (belonging to the Count), van de Graff (of the

Count), "de Graff" (of Count) while he was Graff or Count, or later when he has been elevated to Duke or Herzog, "op den Herzog" or "de Hartog". At this time the multiple dukedom of Cleves-Julich-Berg was divided and invaded by armies from the Houses of Brandenburg, Zweibrucken and Wittelsbach, all relatives of the House of Cleves. Their 9 year family dispute was followed by the Thirty Years War driven by religious differences.

Johann Wilhelm first married Anna van Aldekerk13. Born in 1565 in Aldekerk, Muir, Germany. Anna died in Aldekerk, Muir, Germany.

They had one child:

4 i. Herman (1585-1642)

In 1585 when Johann Wilhelm was 22, he second married Jacobea of Baden-Baden13.

Born in 1558. Jacobea died in Dusseldorf, Germany, in Sep 1597; she was 39.

In 1599 when Johann Wilhelm was 36, he third married Antonia of Lorraine, Princess of Lorraine13. Born in 1568. Antonia died in 1610; she was 42.

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Abraham op den Graeff, was a cousin of William Penn, who signed (along with three others) the first organized religious petition against slavery in the colonies, the 1688 Germantown Quaker Petition Against Slavery.

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Not William Op Den Graff. His name was JOHN WILLIAM of LA MARCH. Who married a supposed nun who left the Catholic Church. That was a definite "NO! NO! ". and the Church came against them and records were destroyed. they effectively were Protestants.

John William of La March was the son of William V of Cleves (1516-1592) and Mary of Habsburg (1530-1584). Excommunicated and records wiped out by Church because they became Protestant believers. marys fathere was Ferdinand I of Hapsburg and his father Philip of Hapsburg who married (mad) Juana of Castile and Aragon, the unbalanced daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain.

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Marriage to: Anna VanAldekerk in1585 Aldekerk, Kleve, Nordrhein-Westfalen, German

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GEDCOM Note

JULICH, or JULIERS, DUCHY . In the 9th century a certain Matfried was count of Julich (pagus Juliacensis), and towards the end of the 11th century one Gerhard held this dignity. This Gerhard founded a family of hereditary counts, who held Juhich as immediate vassals of the emperor, and in 1356 the county was raised to the rank of a duchy. The older and reigning branch of the family died in 1423, when Julich passed to Adolph, duke of Berg (d. 1437), who belonged to a younger (text missing) ...

of one of his ancestors. Nearly a century later Mary (d. 1543) the heiress of these two duchies, married John, the heir of the duchy of Cleves, and in 1521 the three duchies, Julich, Berg and Cleves, together with the counties of Ravensberg and La Marck, nere united under Johns sway. John died in 1539 and was succeeded by his son William who reigned until 1592.

At the beginning of the I7th century the duchies became very prominent in European politics. The reigning duke, John William, was childless and insane, and several princes were only waiting for his demise in order to seize his lands. The most prominent of these princes were two Protestant princes, Philip Louis, count palatine of Neuburg, who was married to the dukes sister Anna, and John Sigismund, elector of Brandenburg, whose wife was the daughter of another sister. Two other sisters were married to princes of minor importance. Moreover, by virtue of an imperial promise made in 1485 and renewed in 1495, the elector of Saxony claimed the duchies of Jtilich and Berg, while the proximity of the coveted lands to the Netherlands made their fate a matter of great moment to the Dutch. When it is remembered that at this time there was a great deal of tension between the Roman Catholics and the Protestants, who were fairly evenly matched in the duchies, and that the rivalry between France and the Empire was very keen, it will be seen that the situation lacked no element of discord. In March 1609 Duke John William died. Having assured themselves of the support of Henry IV. of France and of the Evangelical Union, Brandenburg and Neuburg at once occupied the duchies. To counter this stroke and to support the Saxon claim, the emperor Rudolph II. ordered some imperialist and Spanish troops to seize the disputed lands, and it was probably only the murder of Henry IV. in May 1610 and the death of the head of the Evangelical Union, the elector palatine, Frederick IV., in the following September, which prevented, or rather delayed, a great European war. About this time the emperor adjudged the duchies to Saxony, while the Dutch captured the fortress of Julich; but for all practical purposes victory remained with the possessing princes, as Brandenburg and Neuburg were called, who continued to occupy and to administer the lands. These two princes had made a compact at Dortmund in 1609 to act together in defence of their rights, but proposals for a marriage alliance between the two houses broke down and differences soon arose between them. The next important step was the timely conversion of the count palatines heir, Wolfgang William of Neuburg, to Roman Catholicism, and his marriage with a daughter of the powerful Roman Catholic prince, Duke Maximilian of Bavaria. The rupture between the possessing princes was now complete. Each invited foreign aid. Dutch troops marched to assist the elector of Brandenburg and Spanish ones came to aid the count palatine, but through the intervention of England and France peace was made and the treaty of Xanten was signed in November 1614. By this arrangement Brandenburg obtained Jlich and Berg, the rest of the lands falling to the count palatine. In 1666 the great elector, Frederick William of Brandenburg, made with William, count palatine of Neuburg, a treaty of mutual succession to the duchies, providing that in case the male line of either house became extinct the other should inherit its lands.

The succession to the duchy of Jillich was again a matter of interest in the earlier part of the 18th century. The faniily of the counts palatine of Neuburg was threatened with extinction and the emperor Charles VI. promised the succession to Julich to the Prussian king, Frederick William I., in return for a guarantee of the pragmatic sanction. A little later, however, he promised the same duchy to the count palatine of Sulzbach, a kinsman of the count palatine of Neuburg. Then Frederick the Great, having secured Silesia, abandoned his claim to Jihich, which thus passed to Sulzbach when, in 1742, the family of Neuburg became extinct. From Sulzbach the duchy came to the electors palatine of the Rhine, and, when this family died out in 1799, to the elector of Bavaria, the head of the other branch of the house of Witteisbach. In 1801 Julich was seized by France, and by the settlement of 1815 it came into the hands of Prussia.

Its area was just over 1600 sq. m. and its population about 400,000.

See Kuhi, Geschichte der Stadt Julich; M. Ritter, Sacksen und der Juhicher Erbfolgestreit (1873), and Der Julicher Erbfolgekrieg, iOzo und iOu (1877); A. Muller, Der JlicJl-Klevesche Erbfolgestreit im Jahrd 1614 (1900) and H. H. Koch, Die Reformation im Herzogtum Jlich 1883-1888).

Sixth and last Duke of Cleves, Count of Moers, Lord of Krefeld, Graff van Altena, Graff van de Alderkerk. 1584 Catholic Canon of Cologne who became 1592 the Protestant Bishop of Munster and Comte de la Marck. Considered that son Herman was the result of marriage to a woman not of the nobility, and hence not entitled to royal succession or privileges

Johann Wilhelm was first married in 1585 to Jakobea of Baden (d. 1597), daughter of Philibert, Margrave of Baden. He was secondly married to Antonia of Lorraine (d. 1610), daughter of Charles III, Duke of Lorraine.
He was subject to mental illness, for which he was treated by the physician Francesco Maria Guazzo.[2]Upon Duke Johann William's childless death in 1609, his inheritance was claimed by the heirs of his two eldest sisters: the heir of Maria Eleonora of Cleves (1550–1608), the eldest sister and married to Albert Frederick, Duke of Prussia, was Anna of Prussia, the Electress of Brandenburg, a Protestant. The second sister was Anna of Cleves (1552–1632), married with Philipp Ludwig, Count Palatine of Neuburg, and her son and heir was the then Count Palatine of Neuburg, a Catholic.

Johann Wilhelm of Jülich-Cleves-Berg (German: Johann Wilhelm, Herzog zu Kleve, Jülich und Berg) (28 May 1562 – 25 March 1609) was a Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg.

His parents were William the Rich, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg (1516–92) and Maria of Austria (1531–81), a daughter of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor and Anna of Bohemia and Hungary. He grew up and was educated in Xanten. Johann Wilhelm became Bishop of Münster. However, after the unexpected death of his elder brother Karl Friedrich, Wilhelm was needed to succeed his father as Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg, a secular fief. He was also Count of Altena. The United Duchies of Jülich-Cleves-Berg was a combination of reichsfrei states within the Holy Roman Empire.

Johann Wilhelm was first married in 1585 to Jakobea of Baden (d. 1597), daughter of Philibert, Margrave of Baden. He was secondly married to Antonia of Lorraine (d. 1610), daughter of Charles III, Duke of Lorraine.

He was subject to mental illness, for which he was treated by the physician Francesco Maria Guazzo.[2]

Upon Duke Johann William's death in 1609, his inheritance was claimed by the heirs of his two eldest sisters: the heir of Maria Eleonora of Cleves (1550–1608), the eldest sister and married to Albert Frederick, Duke of Prussia, was Anna of Prussia, the Electress of Brandenburg, a Protestant. The second sister was Anna of Cleves (1552–1632), married with Philipp Ludwig, Count Palatine of Neuburg, and her son and heir was the then Count Palatine of Neuburg, a Catholic.

The disputes of the epoch between Protestants and Catholics escalated, leading to the Thirty Years' War in 1618; the succession dispute became part of the war. Ultimately, Brandenburg received Cleves-Mark and Neuburg received Jülich-Berg, after the lands had been trampled under military several times and lost much of the fabled wealth so renowned in Duke Wilhelm's time. Among his court servants and employees were the composer Konrad Hagius.