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Personal data Otto I van Gelre 

• Title: Graaf, van Gelre
• He died on October 22, 1207.
• A child of Hendrik I van Gelre and Agnes van Arnstein

Household of Otto I van Gelre

He is married to Richardis van Beieren.

They got married

Child(ren):

1. Aleid van Gelre  ????-1218 
2. Gerard III van Gelre  ± 1185-1229 
3. Irmgard van Gelre  ± 1194-> 1230 
4. Methild van Gelre  ????-1247 

Notes about Otto I van Gelre

OTTO (-22 Oct 1207, bur Kloster Kamp). The Kronik van Arent toe Bocop names "Gherrit und…Otte" as the two sons of "Henderick…grave van Gelre"[1025]. He succeeded in 1182 as OTTO I Graaf van Gelre en Zütphen. "Otto…comes Gelrensis…cum uxore nostra Richarda" granted customs privileges to Kloster Altenburg by charter dated to [1188][1026]. “Otto...Gelre comes” donated property to Bedbur, with the consent of “Richardis uxoris mee et heredum meorum...Gerardi, Ottonis sive Lodevici”, by charter dated 1203, witnessed by “...Theodericus frater comitis...”[1027]. m ([1185]) RICHARDIS of Bavaria, daughter of OTTO I Graf von Wittelsbach Duke of Bavaria & his wife Agnes van Looz (-Roermond 21 Sep 1231, bur Roermond). The Genealogia Ottonis II Ducis Bavariæ refers to, but does not name, the fourth of the five daughters of "Otto dictus de Schiren…dux Bawarie" as wife of "Otto comes de Gelre", specifying that they had three sons[1028]. The Kronik van Arent toe Bocop records that "Otto…grave van Gelre" married "des graven docter van Gullick…Richgerda"[1029], which misstates her origin. Her name is further confirmed by the charter dated 1250 under which her grandson "Otto…comes Gelrensis" names "avia mea domina Richardis…avi mei Ottonis comitis"[1030]. "Otto…comes Gelrensis…cum uxore nostra Richarda" granted customs privileges to Kloster Altenburg by charter dated to [1188][1031]. “Otto...Gelre comes” donated property to Bedbur, with the consent of “Richardis uxoris mee et heredum meorum...Gerardi, Ottonis sive Lodevici”, by charter dated 1203[1032]. “Gerhardus comes Gelrie et Zutphanie” donated property to the church of Zutphen St Walburgis, for the soul of “patris mei Ottonis”, with the consent of “matris mee Richardis et fratrum meorum Ottonis, Xanctensis prepositi, et Lodewici”, by charter dated 1207[1033]. Abbess of the Munster Abbey at Roermond.

Otto I & his wife had eight children:
HENDRIK (-[1198], bur Rijnsburg).
GERHARD ([1185]-killed in battle 22 Oct 1229, bur Roermond Cistercian Abbey).
ADELHEID (-4 Feb 1218, bur Rijnsburg)
OTTO (-Vorthusen Mar 1213, bur Utrecht cathedral)
LUDWIG (-after 1207).
IRMGARD (-after 1230).
MARGARETA (-after 1264)
MECHTILD (-28 Oct after 1247).

Bronnen:

[1028] Willelmi Chronica Andrensis 202, MGH SS XXIV, p. 758.

[1029] Kronijk van Arent toe Bocop, p. 109.

[1030] Niederrheins Urkundenbuch, Band I, 513, p. 360.

[1031] Sloet (1872), 404, p. 413.

[1032] Genealogia Ottonis II Ducis Bavariæ et Agnetis Ducissæ, MGH SS XVII, p. 376.

[1033] Kronijk van Arent toe Bocop, p. 110.

[1034] Niederrheins Urkundenbuch, Band II, 365, p. 193.

[1035] Niederrheins Urkundenbuch, Band I, 513, p. 360.

[1036] Sloet (1872), 404, p. 413.

[1037] Sloet (1872), 421, p. 428.

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