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    The Duchy of Guelders (Dutch: Gelre, French: Gueldre, German: Geldern) is a historical duchy, previously county, of the Holy Roman Empire, located in...
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    Guelders is a historical duchy, previously county, of the Holy Roman Empire, located in the Low Countries. before 1096–about 1129: Gerard I about 1129–about...
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    Brabant, and Hainaut on the one side, and Charles, Duke of Guelders, who controlled Guelders, Groningen, and Frisia on the other side. The wars lasted...
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    Berg, as well as Guelders and the Westphalian county of Mark. The Duchy was archaically known as Cleveland in English. The duchy's territory roughly...
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    son William III inherited both duchies, thereby becoming William I of Guelders and Jülich. In 1402, Duke William I Guelders and Jülich died without any legitimate...
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    Upper Guelders or Spanish Guelders was one of the four quarters in the Imperial Duchy of Guelders. In the Dutch Revolt, it was the only quarter that did...
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    court of Charles the Bold, who had bought the duchy of Guelders from Adolf of Egmond in 1473. Charles fought in several battles against the armies of Charles...
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    Seventeen Provinces (category Early modern history of Luxembourg)
    emperor Charles V had re-acquired the Duchy of Guelders from Duke William of Jülich-Cleves-Berg by the 1543 Treaty of Venlo, the Seventeen Provinces comprised:...
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    ones of these were: Archbishopric of Cologne Prince-Bishopric of Liège Bishopric of Utrecht Bishopric of Cambrai Duchy of Limburg County of Guelders (includes...
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    Burgundian Netherlands (category Medieval history of the Low Countries)
    Burgundian duke Charles the Bold, in 1473 annexed the Duchy of Guelders, which had been pawned by late Arnold of Egmond. The Valois era would last until 1477,...
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    of the high nobility, and acted as deputies of a monarch, such as the dukes of Burgundy, Saxony and Guelders, the kings of Spain, or the archdukes of...
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    Burgundian Circle (category Circles of the Holy Roman Empire)
    1594. the Duchy of Guelders, which, with the exception of Upper Guelders, seceded to form part of the United Provinces from 1579. the County of Hainaut...
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    Maarten van Rossum (category Viscounts of Geldermalsen)
    1555) was a military tactician of the duchy of Guelders who became field marshal in the service of Charles, Duke of Guelders. He was greatly feared outside...
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  • Generality Lands (category History of Limburg (Netherlands))
    Roermond was left for the Austrian duchy of Guelders. Westerwolde and Wedde: what is now the southeastern part of the province of Groningen was a generality land...
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    Spanish Netherlands (category Early modern history of Luxembourg)
    of the Duchy of Guelders (Now Netherlands and Germany: the area around Venlo and Roermond, in the present Dutch province of Limburg, and the town of Geldern...
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    the Counts of Zutphen between 1046 and 1138, and then formed a personal union with Guelders. Later, it became one of the 4 quarters of Guelders. After the...
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  • The fourth quarter of Guelders, Upper Guelders, never signed the treaty. In April 1580, Overijssel and Drenthe signed on. The parts of the Low Countries...
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    The Duchy of Brabant, a state of the Holy Roman Empire, was established in 1183. It developed from the Landgraviate of Brabant of 1085–1183, and formed...
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  • was Duke of Guelders and Count of Zutphen from 1343 to 1361, and again in 1371. He was the son of Reginald II of Guelders and of Eleanor of Woodstock...
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    With the acquisition of Guelders, the Burgundian Netherlands reached their greatest extent. Charles' plans to accomplish the rise of his dynasty peaked in...
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  • Guelders or Prussian G(u)elderland (Dutch: Pruisisch Gelre; German: Preußisch Geldern) was the part of the Duchy of Guelders ruled by the Kingdom of Prussia...
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    Roermond (redirect from History of Roermond)
    role of commercial centre and a principal town in the duchy of Guelders. Since 1559, it has served as the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Roermond...
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    Roer (department) (category Former departments of France in Germany)
    Cologne left of the Rhine, the Free City of Aachen, the Prussian part of the duchy of Guelders and some smaller territories. In 1805 the city of Wesel was...
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    Historical affiliations County of Guelders 1118–1339 Duchy of Guelders 1339–1393 Duchy of Jülich 1393–1423 Duchy of Guelders 1423–1543 Habsburg Netherlands...
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  • duchy from him. Edward was the youngest son of Duke Reginald II of Guelders and his second wife, Eleanor of Woodstock, daughter of King Edward II of England...
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    Southern Netherlands (category Early modern history of Luxembourg)
    county since 1490) Duchy of Brabant, including the Margraviate of Antwerp the Upper Quarter (Bovenkwartier) of the duchy of Guelders (around Venlo and...
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  • Jan van Schaffelaar (category People of the Hook and Cod wars)
    the duchy of Guelders (or Gelre), the Netherlands. Born in the region of Barneveld in the Veluwe Quarter about 1445, he was in the military service of David...
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    Richard II of England, and Conrad Zöllner von Rothenstein, the Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights. During his reign the duchies of Guelders and Jülich...
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    Geldern (category Members of the Hanseatic League)
    Lorraine 959–ca. 1096 County of Guelders ca. 1096–1339 Duchy of Guelders 1339–1393 Duchy of Jülich 1393–1423 Duchy of Guelders 1423–1543 Habsburg Netherlands...
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    wooded, hilly, glacial moraine, by the 12th century it was part of the Duchy of Guelders, in the Holy Roman Empire. Wageningen received its city charter...
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