John II, Duke of Cleves, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Duke of Cleves
Date of Birth: 13-Apr-1458
Place of Birth: Kleve, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Date of Death: 15-Mar-1521
Profession: aristocrat
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About John II, Duke of Cleves
- John II, "The Babymaker", Duke of Cleves, Count of Mark, (German: Johann II.
- "der Kindermacher", Herzog von Kleve, Graf von Mark) (13 April 1458 – 15 March 1521) was a son of John I, Duke of Cleves and Elizabeth of Nevers.
- He ruled Cleves from 1481 to his death in 1521.
- He was called "The Babymaker" since he fathered sixty-three illegitimate children before his marriage with Mathilde of Hesse in 1490.
- She was the daughter of Henry III, Landgrave of Upper Hesse and his wife Anna of Katzenelnbogen.They had three children : John III (1490–1539), his successor 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 (1528)
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