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[[File:Blason comte fr Gueldre.svg|thumb|CoA Count of Guelders]]
'''Reginald I of Guelders''' (1255 – October 9, 1326 in [[Montfort (Limburg)|Monfort]]) was [[Count of Guelders]] from January 10, 1271, until his death. 
[[File:Battle of Worringen 1288.PNG|thumb|Battle of Worringen 1288]]

==Life==
He was the son of [[Otto II, Count of Guelders]] and [[Philippe of Dammartin]].<ref>Pollock, M.A., ''Scotland, England and France after the Loss of Normandy, 1204-1296''. The Boydell Press. 2015, p. xv</ref> In 1276 he married [[Ermengarde of Limburg]] of Limburg, only daughter and heiress of [[Waleran IV, Duke of Limburg]].
 
In 1279 he became Duke of Limburg and when Ermengarde died childless in 1283, he became the only ruler of the [[Duchy of Limburg]]. Reginald was captured by [[Bouchout Castle|Daniel van Bouchout]] during the [[Battle of Woeringen]] in 1288.<ref>{{citation | last=Loyens   |first=Hubert  |title=Synopsis AB Serenissimis, Ducibus. Johannes I, Dux Lotharingae, Brabantiae, Limburgi |year=1672|location= Brussels | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H15AAAAAcAAJ|page=10}}</ref> He was released after he had renounced all claims to the [[Duchy of Limburg]].

In 1286 he remarried [[Margaret of Flanders, Countess of Guelders|Margaret of Flanders]] (1272–1331), daughter of [[Guy, Count of Flanders]]<ref>[https://archives.collections.ed.ac.uk/agents/people/10518 "Margaret, d 1331 (daughter of Guy, Count of Flanders)", University of Edinburgh]</ref> from his second marriage, with [[Isabelle of Luxembourg]]. They had 5 children:
* [[Reginald II, Duke of Guelders|Reginald II]] (1295–1343)
* Margaret, married [[Dietrich VIII, Count of Cleves]]
* Guy
* Elisabeth (died 1354), abbess at Cologne
* Philippa, nun at Cologne.

Financially ruined after the [[Battle of Woeringen]], Guelders came under the influence of his father-in-law, the Count of Flanders.<br> From 1318, he was replaced by his son, who imprisoned his father in 1320 in the Montfort Castle and governed as "son of the Count". 
Reginald I died there 6 years later.

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