Everything about Arnold Duke Of Gelderland totally explained
Arnold of Egmond (
1410 –
February 23 1473) was
Duke of Guelders,
Count of Zutphen. He was son of
John II of Egmond and
Maria van Arkel.
In
1423, on the death of Duke
Reinoud IV, the towns raised to the ducal dignity his sister's grandson Arnold of Egmond, who was still a boy in years. Although the
Emperor Sigismund had invested the Duke of Berg with the duchy of Gelders, Arnold retained the confidence of the
Estates by enlarging their privileges, and enjoyed the support of Duke
Philip of Burgundy, to whose niece, the daughter of Duke
Adolf of Cleves, he was betrothed, and afterwards united in marriage. Subsequently, however, Duke Arnold fell out with his ally as to the succession to the see of
Utrecht; whereupon Philip joined with the four chief towns of
Gelderland in the successful attempt of Arnold's son Adolf to substitute his own for his father's authority. But when in
1467 Charles the Bold became
Duke of Burgundy, who couldn't bring himself to befriend a friend of the towns, Adolf after rejecting a compromise was thrown into prison, and his incapable father, against the will of the towns and the law of the land, pledged his duchy to Charles for 300,000 Rhenish florins (
1471). Upon Arnold's death two years later, Charles took possession of the duchy.
Family and children
He was married in
Cleves on
26 January 1430 to Catherine of Cleves (1417–1479), daughter of
Adolph IV, Duke of Cleves and
Mary of Burgundy. Their children were:
He also had numerous illegitimate children.
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