Mark
The County of Mark was an imperial Westphalian lordship centred on Hamm and nearby Mark Castle. In 1337 Count Adolf II of the Mark dynasty ruled its lands across the Ruhr.
His younger son inherited Cleves in 1368 and Mark in 1391, uniting them as Cleves-Mark in 1394. Mark joined the Jülich-Cleves-Berg union in 1521. After the dynasty died out in 1609, the Treaty of Xanten assigned it to Brandenburg in 1614. The Tilsit treaties gave it to France in 1807; it returned to Prussia in 1813 and entered Westphalia province in 1815.
Characters
- Adolf II of the Marck
- Adolf III of the Mark
- Dietrich I of the Mark
- Eberhard I of the Marck-Arenberg
- Eberhard I, Count of the Mark
- Engelbert II of the Mark
- Engelbert III of the Mark
- Engelbert III of the Mark
- Margaret of the Mark
- Margaret of Cleves
- Mechtild of the Mark