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German noblewoman
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Female
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19 February 1505 (aged 31 years)
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Place of death
Cologne
Age
31 years
Family
Father:
Henry III, Landgrave of Upper Hesse
Spouse:
John II Duke of Cleves
Children:
John III
Duke of Cleves
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Biography
Mathilde of Hesse (4 July 1473 in Blankenstein – 19 February 1505 in Cologne) was the daughter of Henry III, Landgrave of Upper Hesse (1441-1483) and his wife Anna of Katzenelnbogen (1443-1494).
Marriage and issue
She married on 3 November 1489 in Soest to John II, Duke of Cleves, nicknamed "the Babymaker" (1458-1521). He was son of John I, Duke of Cleves and Elizabeth of Nevers. John and Mathilde had three children:
- John (1490–1539), succeeded as Duke of Cleves and Count of the Marck
- Anna (1495–1567), married in 1518 with count Philip III of Waldeck-Eisenberg
- Adolf (1498–1525), appointed by his father's cousin Philip of Cleves, Lord of Ravenstein and Wijnendale, as his successor, but died before Philip did in 1528
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