Duchy of Guelders

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former duchy historical principality state of the Holy Roman Empire

The Duchy of Guelders was a late medieval and early modern principality in the Low Countries, centered in what is now the eastern Netherlands and historically significant as a regional power within the Holy Roman Empire and the Burgundian-Habsburg Netherlands.

Aliases (3)

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	former duchy → historical principality → state of the Holy Roman Empire →
abolishedBy	French Revolutionary forces →
borderedBy	Bishopric of Utrecht → County of Zutphen → Duchy of Cleves → Duchy of Jülich →
capital	Arnhem → Nijmegen NERFINISHED →
continent	Europe →
country	Holy Roman Empire →
dissolved	1795 →
elevatedFromCounty	1339 →
established	1339 →
follows	County of Guelders →
governmentType	feudal monarchy → monarchy →
hasPart	Nijmegen Quarter → Upper Guelders → Upper Quarter → Veluwe → Zutphen NERFINISHED →
inConflict	Habsburg Netherlands →
language	Middle Dutch →
laterReligion	Protestantism →
locatedIn	Low Countries → eastern Netherlands →
namedAfter	Geldern NERFINISHED →
notableRuler	Charles of Egmond → William the Rich →
partOf	Burgundian Netherlands → Habsburg Netherlands → Holy Roman Empire → Lower Rhenish–Westphalian Circle →
predecessor	County of Guelders →
presentIn	Belgium → Germany → Netherlands →
religion	Roman Catholicism →
ruledByDynasty	House of Burgundy → House of Egmond → House of Habsburg → House of Jülich → House of Wassenberg →
successor	Duchy of Cleves-Guldenberg-Jülich-Berg → Duchy of Jülich-Cleves-Berg → Guelders → United Provinces →
titleHeldByRuler	Duke of Guelders →

Referenced by (19)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Lordship of Overijssel → Lordship of Utrecht ("Guelders") → Prince-Bishopric of Liège →	borderedBy
Lord of the Netherlands → Seventeen Provinces →	hasPart
Gelderland → GelreDome ("Duchy of Guelders (Gelre)") →	namedAfter
Pragmatic Sanction of 1549 →	appliesTo
Mary of Guelders →	associatedWith
Philip William, Prince of Orange →	birthPlace
Meierij van ’s-Hertogenbosch ("County of Guelders") →	borderedByHistoricalRegion
Mary of Guelders →	countryOfCitizenship
Gelderland ("Guelders") →	historicalRegionOf
Habsburg Netherlands →	includedTerritory
Johannes van den Bosch ("Guelders") →	placeOfBirth
Union of Utrecht →	signatory
Lord of the Seventeen Provinces →	sovereigntyOver
Middle Dutch →	spokenIn
Duchy of Guelders ("Guelders") →	successor