Gerard I, Count of Guelders

Gerard I, Count of Guelders (c. 1060 – 8 March 1129) was Count of Guelders (Gelre in Dutch). He was the son of Theodoric of Wassenberg.

He may have been married to Clementia of Aquitaine, although that proposed marriage seems to be based on a falsified document.^[1] It is also possible that he married a daughter of William I, Count of Burgundy^[2] whose name is not known. Gerard had three children:

• Jutta of Wassenberg, married Waleran II of Limburg^[3]
• Yolande of Wassenberg (Yolande of Guelders), married 1) Baldwin III, Count of Hainaut^[3] and 2) Godfrey II de Ribemont Châtelain de Valenciennes
• Gerard II, Count of Guelders,^[4] married Ermengarde of Zutphen, daughter of Otto II, Count of Zutphen.

References

1. Szabolcs de Vajay 'Contribution à l'histoire de l'attitude des royaumes pyrénéens dans la querelle des investitures: de l'origine de Berthe, reine d'Aragon et de Navarre', Estudios Genealógicos, Heráldicos y Nobiliarios, en honor de Vicente de Cadenas y Vicent (Hidalguía, Madrid, 1978), Vol. 2, p. 386 footnote 40.
2. Herimanni, Liber de Restauratione Sancti Martini Tornacensis 33, MGH SS XIV, p. 287.
3. Gilbert of Mons 2005, p. 31.
4. Vanderkindere 1904, p. 47.

Sources

• Gilbert of Mons (2005). Chronicle of Hainaut. Translated by Napran, Laura. Boydell Press.
• Vanderkindere, Leon, ed. (1904). La Chronique de Gislebert de Mons (in French). Librairie Kiessling.

Preceded by none

Count of Guelders 1096–1129

Succeeded by Gerard II