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House of La Marck

The House of La Marck (German: Haus Mark; von der Mark) was a noble family, which from about 1200 appeared as the counts of Mark.

History[edit]

The family history started with Count Adolf I, scion of a cadet branch of the Rhenish Berg dynasty residing at Altena Castle in Westphalia. In the early 13th century Adolf took his residence at his family's estates around Mark, a settlement in present-day Hamm-Uentrop. Adolf had inherited the Mark fortress from his father Count Frederick I of Berg-Altena (d. 1198) together with the older county around Altena and began to call himself count de La Mark.


Originally liensmen of the archbishops of Cologne in the Duchy of Westphalia, the family ruled the County of Mark, an immediate state of the Holy Roman Empire, and, at the height of their powers, the four duchies of Julich, Cleves, Berg and Guelders as well as the County of Ravensberg. Members of the family became bishops in the Prince-Bishoprics of Liège, Münster and Osnabrück, and Archbishops in Cologne. Later collateral lines became dukes of Bouillon, a title which was later inherited by the House of La Tour d'Auvergne, princes of Sedan, dukes of Nevers, counts of Rethel and so forth.

(1288–1344), Prince-Bishop of Liège

Adolph de la Marck

(died 1347), Count of the Marck, son of Engelbert I of the Marck

Adolph II of the Marck

(1333–1391), Count of the Marck, son of Count Adolph II

Engelbert III of the Mark

(c. 1334–1394), Prince-Bishop of Münster, later was Archbishop-Elector of Cologne, later was Count of Cleves, later added Count of the Marck

Adolf III of the Marck

(1304–1368), Prince-Bishop of Liège, later was Archbishop-Elector of Cologne

Engelbert de la Marck

(1445–1486), assassinated a Prince-Bishop of Liège, causing a civil war in the prince-bishopric

William I de La Marck

(1472–1538), nephew of William I, was prince-bishop from 1506 till 1538.

Érard de La Marck

nephew of William I, was Duke of Bouillon, seigneur of Sedan and Fleuranges.

Robert II de la Marck

(1491–1537), son of Robert II, was Marshal of France in 1526 and historian.

Robert III de la Marck

(1520–1556) was Duke of Bouillon and Prince of Sedan, and Marshal of France in 1547.

Robert IV de la Marck

(1542–1578) was admiral of the Gueux de mer, the so-called 'sea beggars' who fought in the Eighty Years' War (1568–1648). He was the great-grandson of William I de la Marck.

William II de la Marck

4th wife of King Henry VIII of England, was a member of this house, daughter of John III.

Anne of Cleves

In 1591 the heiress of one of the collateral lines of the family, Charlotte de la Marck, was married to Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Marshal of France. In 1594 Charlotte died without issue, and her claims to Bouillon passed to her husband.

(French Comté de La Marck)

County of Mark

Marguerite de La Marck d'Arenberg (1527–1599), princess-countess and sovereign of Arenberg from 1576. Married Jean de Ligne, baron of Barbançon, in 1547. General of the Spanish armies, he was killed at the battle of Heiligerlée in 1568.

Marek, Miroslav. . Genealogy EU.

"dukes of Cleves"

Marek, Miroslav. . Genealogy EU.

"Arenberg, dukes of Bouillon, William the Wild Boar, Erard de la Mark"

Genealogy de la Marck on genealogy.euweb.cz :