Gerhard II. (Geldern)

Gerhard II von Geldern Count von Wassenberg , called the Tall One (* around 1090/1095; † on October 24th around the year 1131) was a Geldrian regent.

Gerhard II von Geldern was in the count of those von Wassenberg Gerhard IV. His father was Gerhard I. von Geldern or Gerhard III. von Wassenberg , who must have lived until at least 1129. It is not possible to determine when the two Gerharde died and whether Gerhard II exercised the count's rights. Between March 1131 and April 9, 1138 there is no source evidence for a Geldrian count, until then at Easter 1138 Heinrich I , the son of Gerhard II, is mentioned as Count von Geldern. According to the sources available to date, it cannot be decided whether the Gerharde, documented between 1085 and 1131, are a person or not.

Gerhard II married Ermengarde († 1138), the daughter of Count Otto II of Zutphen and heiress of the County of Zutphen , whose territory east of the central IJssel had numerous outposts in Friesland, Westphalia and the Rhineland. Gerhard asserted this inheritance against the Bishop of Munster and relied mainly on Brabant.

Gerhard is buried in the church in Wassenberg.

literature

• Ralf G. Jahn: The genealogy, the bailiffs, counts and dukes of money. In: Johannes Stinner, Karl-Heinz Tekath (ed.): Gelre - Geldern - Gelderland. History and culture of the Duchy of Geldern (= Duchy of Geldern. Vol. 1 = Publications of the State Archives of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia. Series D: Exhibition catalogs of the State Archives. Vol. 30). Verlag des Historisches Verein für Geldern und Umgegend, Geldern 2001, ISBN 3-9805419-4-0 , pp. 29–50 and pp. 489–517.
• Pieter Lodewijk Muller:  Gerhard II., Count of Geldern and Zutphen . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1878, p. 737.

predecessor	Office	successor
Gerhard I.	Count of Geldern 1129–1131	Heinrich I.
Otto II.	Count of Zutphen ( de iure uxoris ) around 1113–1131	Heinrich I.