Rainald (Jülich-Geldern)

Rainald von Jülich (* around 1365 ; † June 25, 1423 near Arnhem ) was from 1402 as Rainald IV Duke of Geldern and as Rainald I Duke of Jülich .

Life

Rainald was the son of Wilhelm II Duke von Jülich and Maria von Geldern, a daughter of Duke Rainald II von Geldern. In 1402 he succeeded his older brother Wilhelm, who died childless, as Duke of Jülich and Geldern. In 1406 he allied himself with the Wittelsbach Counts of Holland and Hainaut to prevent Anton from Burgundy succeeding him in the Duchy of Brabant , but this failed and led to the alliance breaking up. He supported the election of Ruprecht I as Roman-German king and allied himself with Ludwig von Orléans . For the support of Johann von Arkel in the fight against Holland, he received the city of Gorinchem in 1409 , which he ceded in 1412 for financial compensation. He had to leave Emmerich to the Duke of Kleve . The increasing indebtedness forced him to renew and extend the privileges of the estates. After his childless death in 1423, he was succeeded in Jülich by Adolf Herzog von Berg (from a side line of the Jülich family), while the Geldrian estates elected Arnold von Egmond , a grandson of Rainald's sister Johanna, to be duke.

family

Rainald married Maria († after 1427) in 1405, a daughter of Johann VI. by Harcourt and Aumale . The marriage remained childless. The book of hours his wife still exists today.

The duke had several bastards who were not eligible for succession in the ducal office:

Wilhelm, Herr von Wachtendonk († 1439), 1413–1432 Herr von Batenburg, December 13, 1416 legitimized . First marriage January 5, 1410 with Johanna von Wachtendonk († 1415), heir daughter of Arnold III., Mr. zu Wachtendonk and Wilhelma von Büren. Second marriage in 1415 to Hermanna von Bronckhorst († after 1439), daughter of Gisbert von Bronckhorst and Margarete von Ghemen.
Wilhelm († 1421), Abbot of Gladbach, pastor of Kaldenkirchen.
Eduard von Bell, 1419 lord von Haps, 1447 pledger in Uerdingen, 1473 bailiff in Hülchrath. First marriage in 1410 in Arnheim to a daughter of Wilhelm von Arnheim. Second marriage on May 1, 1418 to Stina Schall von Bell , daughter of Gerhard Vogt von Bell and Elisabeth Scherffgin.
Rainald (Reinart) von Gülich, 1410/1436 to Weisweiler. He married around 1410/1415 Alverade von Disternich († after May 1, 1424), daughter of the late knight Rost von Disternich. Rainald became the progenitor of the von Gülich family .
Aleid.
Alverade.

literature

Karl Theodor Wenzelburger: Reinald IV . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 27, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1888, p. 728.

Web links

genealogie-mittelalter.de

Individual evidence

↑ Ralf G. Jahn, The Genealogy of the Vögte, Counts and Dukes of Geldern , In: Gelre, Geldern, Gelderland. History and culture of the Duchy of Geldern, ed. by Johannes Stinner and Karl-Heinz Tekath, Geldern 2001 (accessed April 17, 2017)
↑ Heike Preuss (arrangement): Kleve-Mark documents 1394-1416. Regesta of the holdings of Kleve-Mark documents in the North Rhine-Westphalian main state archive in Düsseldorf. Respublica-Verlag, Siegburg 2003, p. 211.

predecessor	Office	successor
Wilhelm I / III.	Duke of Geldern, Count of Zutphen 1402–1423	Arnold of Egmond
Wilhelm I / III.	Duke of Jülich 1402–1423	Adolf

personal data
SURNAME	Rainald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Rainald IV. (Geldern); Rainald I. (Jülich)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Duke of Geldern and Duke of Jülich
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1365
DATE OF DEATH	June 25, 1423
Place of death	Arnhem

[1] Ralf G. Jahn, The Genealogy of the Vögte, Counts and Dukes of Geldern , In: Gelre, Geldern, Gelderland. History and culture of the Duchy of Geldern, ed. by Johannes Stinner and Karl-Heinz Tekath, Geldern 2001 (accessed April 17, 2017)

[bastard-2] Heike Preuss (arrangement): Kleve-Mark documents 1394-1416. Regesta of the holdings of Kleve-Mark documents in the North Rhine-Westphalian main state archive in Düsseldorf. Respublica-Verlag, Siegburg 2003, p. 211.