THE WORLD ATLAS

Realm · approximate borders · 1138–1543

Duchy of Guelders

Guelders (Gelre) with the County of Zutphen (united 1138): the Veluwe, the Betuwe, Nijmegen and Zutphen, plus the Upper Quarter around Geldern, Venlo and Roermond. A county raised to a duchy in 1339; it resisted Burgundy and Habsburg until Charles V took it by the Treaty of Venlo in 1543.

See Duchy of Guelders on the map in 1138

On the map
1138–1543
Capital
Geldern, later Arnhem

Rulers named in the sources

Western and central European states, 430–1956

States of western and central Europe: the Irish kingdoms of Meath, Osraige, Breifne, Thomond, Desmond and Tyrconnell, Pictish Fortriu, the Welsh kingdoms of Dyfed, Ceredigion and Deheubarth, Elmet, the taifas of Málaga, Majorca and Menorca, the prince-bishoprics of Liège and Utrecht, Guelders, Brabant, Namur, Limburg, Luxembourg, Cleves and Jülich, Bar and Provence, the Electoral Palatinate, Mainz, Hesse, the Welf principalities, Württemberg, Baden, Ansbach, Bayreuth, Nuremberg, Salzburg, Meissen, Saxe-Wittenberg, Saxe-Lauenburg, Oldenburg and Pomerania, the Visconti, Gonzaga, Este, Montefeltro and Appiani states, Siena, Lucca and Gaeta, and in the 20th century the four occupation zones of Germany, the Saar Protectorate and the Free Territory of Trieste.

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