Gerard III, Count of Guelders

Gerard was an influential knight in the court of the emperor Frederick II, but fell from grace and the emperor destroyed Roermond in 1213 after a conflict between them. He fought the Bishop of Utrecht Otto II of Lippe over Salland but supported the Bishop in the Battle of Ane. He was captured in this battle in 1227.{{citation needed|date=February 2011}} The chronicle of Johannes de Beke mentions that Gerard was killed in battle.Chronologia Johannes de Beke 66c, p. 169. Another source mentions that Gerard was killed in a battle at Zutphen in 1229.Kronijk van Arent toe Bocop, p. 116.

Gerard was a son of Count Otto I of Guelders and Richardis of Bavaria. He married Margaret of Brabant, the daughter of Henry I, Duke of Brabant, and Matilda of Flanders.{{sfn|Baldwin|2014|p=27}} They had:

• Otto II, Count of Guelders, married first Margaret of Cleves, daughter of Dietrich IV, Count of Cleves and his first wife, Mathilde von Dinslaken. Then married second Philippe of Dammartin, daughter of Simon of Dammartin, Count of Aumâle and his wife Marie, Countess of Ponthieu.
• {{Interlanguage link multi|Henry III of Guelders|nl|3=Hendrik III van Gelre}}, Bishop of Liège
• Margaret of Guelders
• Richardis of Guelders, married William IV, Count of Jülich.

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• {{cite book |title=Pope Gregory X and the Crusades |first=Philip B. |last=Baldwin |publisher=The Boydell Press |year=2014 }}

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Category:House of Wassenberg

Category:Counts of Zutphen

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Category:1185 births

Category:1229 deaths

Category:13th-century nobility from the Holy Roman Empire

Category:13th-century counts in Europe

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