Margaret of Guelders (11 August 1436,

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– 2 November 1486, Simmern) was a noblewoman from what is now the

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. She was part of the Egmond Family. She was married to the

Count Palatine of Simmern The House of Palatinate-Simmern () was a Germany, German-Bavaria, Bavarian cadet branch of the House of Wittelsbach. The house was one of the collateral lineages of the Electoral Palatinate, Palatinate. It became the main branch in 1559. The Pala ...

and was the Countess of Palatinate-Simmern.

Life

Margaret was born on 11 August 1436. She was the daughter of Arnold of Egmond, Duke of Guelders, and

Catherine of Cleves (1417–1479) Catherine of Cleves (25 May 1417 – 10 February 1479) was Duchess of Guelders by marriage to Arnold, Duke of Guelders. She acted as regent of Guelders during the absence of her spouse in 1450. The Hours of Catherine of Cleves was commissione ...

. Her siblings were Mary of Guelders, Queen of Scotland,

Catherine of Guelders Catherine of Guelders (ca. 1440 – Guelders, January 25, 1497), was regent of the Duchy of Guelders between 1477 and 1492. First for her brother during his absence, and then for her young nephew. Family Catherine of Guelders was the fourth and y ...

who became regent for her nephew, and

Adolf, Duke of Guelders Adolf of Egmond (Grave, 12 February 1438 – Tournai, 27 June 1477) was a Duke of Guelders, Count of Zutphen from 1465 to 1471 and in 1477. Life Adolf was the son of Arnold, Duke of Guelders and Catherine of Cleves. In the battle of success ...

who fought against their father. Through her mother she was a granddaughter of

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and

Mary of Burgundy Mary of Burgundy (; ; 13 February 1457 – 27 March 1482), nicknamed the Rich, was a member of the House of Valois-Burgundy who ruled the Burgundian lands, comprising the Duchy of Burgundy, Duchy and Free County of Burgundy, County of Burgundy a ...

making her a great-niece of

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, Duke of Burgundy. Her mother

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owned the

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, one of the most highly decorated book of hours to survive from the 15th century. In

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, on 6 August 1454 she married

Frederick I, Count Palatine of Simmern Frederick I, the Hunsrücker (German: Friedrich I.; 19 November 1417 – 29 November 1480) was the Count Palatine of Simmern from 1459 until 1480. Frederick was born in 1417 to Stephen, Count Palatine of Simmern-Zweibrücken and his wife, Anna ...

making her Countess of Palatinate-Simmern. They had ten children: #

Katherine Katherine (), also spelled Catherine and Catherina, other variations, is a feminine given name. The name and its variants are popular in countries where large Christian populations exist, because of its associations with one of the earliest Ch ...

(1455 – 28 December 1522) #Stephen (25 February 1457 – 1488/9) #William (2 January 1458 – 1458) #

John I John I may refer to: People Religious figures * John I (bishop of Jerusalem) * John Chrysostom (349 – c. 407), Patriarch of Constantinople * John I of Antioch (died 441) * Pope John I of Alexandria, Coptic Pope from 496 to 505 * Pope John I, P ...

(15 May 1459 – 27 January 1509) #Frederick (10 April 1460 – 22 November 1518) # Rupert (16 October 1461 – 19 April 1507) #Anne (30 July 1465 – 15 July 1517) #Margaret (2 December 1466 – August 1506) #Helene (1467 – 21 February 1555) #William (20 April 1468 – 1481)

Death

She died on 2 November 1486 at Simmern unter Dhaun,

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, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, and she was buried at Kloster Ravengiersburg a monastery in the now

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where her husband too was buried. She lived long enough to see her son marry Joanna of Nassau-Saarbrücken the daughter of

Johann II of Nassau-Saarbrücken Johann, typically a male given name, is the German form of ''Iohannes'', which is the Latin form of the Greek name ''Iōánnēs'' (), itself derived from Hebrew name '' Yochanan'' () in turn from its extended form (), meaning "Yahweh is Gracious" ...

in 1481.

Ancestry

References

1436 births 1486 deaths Dukes of Guelders House of Egmond

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