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Adelaide of Cleves
Aleid on horseback with her army (detail)
Countess of Holland
Reign1190 – 1203
PredecessorAda of Scotland
SuccessorAda of Holland
Died1238
Burial
Rijnsburg Abbey
Spouse
Dirk VII, Count of Holland
(m. 1186; died 1203)
Issue
  • Aleydis
  • Petronilla
  • Ada
FatherDietrich II, Count of Cleves
MotherAdelaide of Sulzbach

Adelaide of Cleves (died 1238), also known as Aleid and Adelheid was, by her marriage to Dirk VII, Countess of Holland. She played an important role in the administration during the reign of her husband, during which she served as regent in 1195, and facilitated the marriage and accession of their daughter Ada amid dynastic disputes in 1203.

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