Reginald I of Guelders

Rainald I of Geldern ( * 1255, † October 9, 1326 in Montfort, called the Quarrelsome ) was from 10 January 1271 to 1320 Earl of funds and 1280-1288 also Duke of Limburg.

Rainald was born the son of Otto II. He himself had a son, Rainald II.

In 1279 he bought the county boiler and sovereign rights on the left bank of the Meuse and the rule of ministeriales between the Meuse and Mönchengladbach.

After the death of his father- Walram V of Limburg in 1280, he was from the right of his wife Irmgard Duke of Limburg. As Irmgard already died childless in 1283, raised their cousin Count Adolf V of Berg hereditary claims to the duchy. In any resulting Limburger succession dispute took place on June 5, 1288 at Worringen battle in which Rainald was defeated and was captured. He had to buy the freedom with renunciation of all claims to Limburg. The Duchy of Limburg was not after all to Adolf V of Berg, but to Duke John I of Brabant, the husband of the half-sister of Reynald's second wife. The Battle of Worringen robbed the Counts of money, the prospect of a real power position. Rainald was so indebted that he was pledged 1288-1293 to the Count of Flanders, the county funds in the subsequent period. The Flemish government was however significantly to the development of a modern and effective territorial administration.

In 1306 he founded the Carmelite Monastery money. In 1310 he was commissioned by King Henry VII for his possessions the privilege de non evocando, which his subjects were freed from the power of foreign courts.

Rainald was 1317, collected by the German anti-king Frederick the Fair, which was not recognized by the Emperor Louis of Bavaria in the imperial princes.

Since he was mentally ill as a result of a wound received in the battle of Worringen, 1316 arose a rebellion in Geldern, headed by his son Rainald II stood. The same is the father seized in 1320 by cunning and cast him into prison, where he died in 1326.

Rainald I. was buried on October 21, 1326 in Graefenthal monastery.

Marriages and descendants

1270 Rainald married Irmgard von Limburg ( † 1283), daughter of Walram V.. This marriage remained childless.

In 1286 he married Margaret of Flanders ( † 1331 ) from the house of Dampierre, daughter of Count Guy I of Flanders and Namur, widow of Crown Prince Alexander of Scotland ( † 1283). With her he had the following children:

  • Rainald II (* 1295, † 1343 )
  • Guido ( † after 1315)
  • Philipp († young)
  • Elisabeth ( † 1355 ), Abbess of St. Klara in Cologne
  • Philippa († 1352), a nun of St. Clare in Cologne
  • Margaret, ∞ Dietrich IX. of Cleves
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