Renaud II of Gueldre

Renaud II of Gueldre , known as the Black , born towards 1295, died in Arnhem the October 12th 1343, was duke of Gueldre and count de Zutphen of 1326 with 1343. It was wire of Renaud Ier, duke of Gueldre and count de Zutphen, and of Marguerite of Flanders.

From 1316, he exerted the regency of the Duché of Gueldre, made imprison his father in 1318 and controlled as a wire of the duke of Gueldre , then, starting from the death of his father in 1326, like duke of Gueldre and count de Zutphen .

He fixed several legislative texts in the duchy, the common law in 1321 and of the payment on the dams and channels in 1335. He was combined with his brother-in-law Edouard III in a coalition anti-Frenchwoman. He had a brilliant court?

Marriages and children

He married in first weddings with Roermond the January 11th 1311 Sophia Berthout († 1329), lady of Malines, and had:

Marguerite (1320 † 1344), lady Malignant
Mathilde (1325 † 1384), lady the Malignant ones, then duchess of Gueldre (1371-1379), married:
# in 1336 in Godefroy de Heinsberg and of Looz († 1347)
# before 1348 with Jean († 1368), count de Clèves
# with Jean II of Châtillon († 1381), count de Blois
Elisabeth († 1376), abbess of Gravendaal
Marie († 1405), duchess of Gueldre (1371-1405), married in 1362 with Guillaume VI (1333 † 1393), duke of Juliers

Widower, it remarie with Nimègue in May 1332 with Aliénor of England (1318 † 1355), girl of Edouard II, king d' Angleterre and of Isabelle de France. They had:

Renaud III (1333 † 1371), duke of Gueldre (1343-1361)
Edouard (1336 † 1371), duke of Gueldre (1361-1371)

Sources

Genealogy of the counts de Gueldre

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