Prussian Guelders or Prussian G(u)elderland (Dutch: Pruisisch Gelre; German: Preußisch Geldern) was the part of the Duchy of Guelders ruled by the Kingdom of Prussia from 1713. Its capital was Geldern.
The Upper Quarter of the Duchy of Guelders was part of the Spanish-ruled Southern Netherlands by the end of the 17th century. In the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht during the War of the Spanish Succession, the Upper Quarter was partitioned between the Dutch Republic, Austria, and Prussia. Besides Geldern, other towns in the Prussian duchy were Horst, Venray, and Viersen, the latter of which was an exclave surrounded by the Duchy of Jülich. Prussian Guelders was part of the Lower Rhenish-Westphalian Circle within the Holy Roman Empire.
Prussian Guelders was occupied by Revolutionary France in 1794 and later annexed into the First French Empire as part of the Roer Department. After the Napoleonic Wars, the western regions became part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, while the eastern regions, such as Geldern and Viersen, were made part of the new Prussian province of Jülich-Cleves-Berg. These latter regions, until then linguistically and culturally Dutch, rapidly became Germanized.
PrussianGuelders or Prussian G(u)elderland (Dutch: Pruisisch Gelre; German: Preußisch Geldern) was the part of the Duchy of Guelders ruled by the Kingdom...
range of songs about Gelre/Guelders, among them a contemporary anthem "Het Gelders Volklied". PrussianGuelders Spanish Guelders Robin, Larsen and Levin...
Upper Guelders or Spanish Guelders was one of the four quarters in the Imperial Duchy of Guelders. In the Dutch Revolt, it was the only quarter that did...
ceded to the German Empire in 1871 following France's defeat in the Franco-Prussian War. A small part of Haut-Rhin, however, remained French and became known...
Roer (Province of Jülich-Cleves-Berg, itself a merger of the former PrussianGuelders, Principality of Moers, and the Grand Duchy of Berg).[citation needed]...
Lorraine 959–ca. 1096 County of Guelders ca. 1096–1339 Duchy of Guelders 1339–1393 Duchy of Jülich 1393–1423 Duchy of Guelders 1423–1543 Habsburg Netherlands...
April, surrendering all its own possessions on the west Rhine bank (PrussianGuelders, Moers and half of Cleves). The Coalition fell apart even further...
politics, and were formally abolished in 1946 following World War II. The Prussian provinces became the basis for many federal states of Germany, and the...
during the Seven Years' War. Surrounded by an advancing French army, the Prussian garrison of Geldern surrendered after a four-month siege. In the wake of...
and Sardinia were ceded to Austria, the Kingdom of Sicily to Savoy, PrussianGuelders to the Kingdom of Prussia, and Minorca and Gibraltar to Great Britain...
century). A Prussian influence began on a small scale in 1609 by the occupation of the Duchy of Cleves. A century later, Upper Guelders and Moers also...
of its southern neighbours: the Duchies of Jülich and Berg, as well as Guelders and the Westphalian county of Mark. The Duchy was archaically known as...
the duchy of Guelders. Around 1702, at the time of the War of the Spanish Succession Maasbree was occupied by Prussia and remained Prussian until 1814....
began to decline. The Hanseatic towns of Guelders were obstructed in the 1530s by Charles II, Duke of Guelders. The strict Catholic Charles objected to...
1581 (the Act of Abjuration). It comprised Groningen, Frisia, Overijssel, Guelders, Utrecht, Holland, and Zeeland. Although the state was small and had only...
Holland and the city of Utrecht, while the Orangists held the states of Guelders and Utrecht (outside of its capital city). In 1785, stadtholder William...
Kingdom of Prussia. The Dukes of Cleves-Jülich-Berg inherited the Duchy of Guelders, but they later lost possession of it when the inheritance split despite...
Pomerania, Lunenburg, Holstein and Schleswig, of Magdeburg, of Bremen, of Guelders, Cleves, Jülich and Berg, Duke of the Wends and the Kassubes, of Crossen...
(1584–1647), Prince of Orange and stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Guelders, and Overijssel Frederick Henry, Duke of Saxe-Zeitz-Pegau-Neustadt (1668–1713)...
Belgium and Luxembourg) made extensive use of stadtholders, e.g. the Duke of Guelders appointed a stadtholder to represent him in Groningen. In the 15th century...
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