Count of Zutphen

The title of Count of Zutphen historically belonged to the ruler of the Dutch province of Gelderland (Zutphen being one of the major cities in the province during the medieval period). The lordship was a vassal title before it eventually became a county itself.

The line of the Counts of Zutphen became extinct in the 12th century and the title passed again onto the rulers of Guelders, who eventually sold its titles to the duke of Burgundy. After the Guelders Wars, both Guelders and Zupthen ended as part of the Spanish Netherlands until Gelderland became one of the provinces to revolt and form the United Provinces.

Lords of Zutphen

The House of Zutphen comes into existence in 1018 when Otto of Hammerstein became the first Lord of Zutphen. In 1046 Emperor Henry III gave Zutphen to Bishop Bernold of Utrecht. The Lords of Zutphen did not recognize this gift, which lead to some confusion regarding who actually owned Zutphen.

920 – 998/1001: Megingoz of Guelders († ap. 998/1001)
Married Gerberga of Lorraine
1002-1025: Otto of Hammerstein († 1036), count of Hamaland, son of Herbert and Ermentrude, daughter of Megingoz and Gerberge
married to Ermengarde of Verdun
1025-1031: Liudolf of Lotharingia († 1031)
married in 1025 to Mathilde of Hammerstein, daughter of Otto I
1031-1033: Henri I of Zutphen († 1118), son of Liudolf
1033-1042: Conrad († 1055), Duke of Bavaria as Conrad II from 1049 to 1053, son of Liudolf
married to Judith of Schweinfurt († 1106)
1042-1044: Gothelo I, brother of Ermengarde of Verdun.
1044-1046: Godfrey, son of Gothelo
1046-1063: Godschalk of Zutphen († 1063)^[1]
married to Adelheid, sister of Conrad
1062-1101: Otto II the Rich († 1113), son of the former. In 1101 he was elevated to Count of Zutphen.^[1]

Counts of Zutphen

1101-1113: Otto II the Rich († 1113) Made Count of Zutphen in 1101
married Judith of Arnstein
1113-1127: Henri II the elder († 1127), son of the former
1127-1138: Ermengarde († 1138), sister of the former, married:

Gerard II († 1131), count of Guelders and of Wassenberg
Conrad II († 1136), count of Luxembourg

1138-1182: Henry III († 1182), count of Guelders and of Zutphen

Counts of Guelders

References

^ ^a ^b Sellers, Edwin Jaquett (1915). Allied Ancestry of the Van Culemborg Family of Culemborg, Holland: Being the Ancestry of Sophia Van Culemborg, Wife of Johan de Carpentier, Parents of Maria de Carpentier, Wife of Jean Paul Jaquet, Vice-director and Chief Magistrate of the Colonies on the South River of New Netherland 1655-1657. Press of Allen Lane & Scott. p. 103.

Sources

Genealogy of the count of Zutphen (in Dutch)

[:0-1] Sellers, Edwin Jaquett (1915). Allied Ancestry of the Van Culemborg Family of Culemborg, Holland: Being the Ancestry of Sophia Van Culemborg, Wife of Johan de Carpentier, Parents of Maria de Carpentier, Wife of Jean Paul Jaquet, Vice-director and Chief Magistrate of the Colonies on the South River of New Netherland 1655-1657. Press of Allen Lane & Scott. p. 103.

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