Dietrich VII, Count of Cleves

Dietrich VII (c. 1256–1305) ruled the County of Cleves from 1275. He kept Cleves neutral in the 1288 Battle of Worringen and was a trusted councillor of the kings of Germany. In 1290 King Rudolf of Habsburg granted him Duisburg.

He pushed dike-building and internal colonization and was buried at Bedburg abbey. By Margaret of Guelders he fathered Otto; his second wife Margaret von Neu-Kyburg, wed in 1290, bore the later counts Dietrich VIII and John.