State · 1096 – 1795
Duchy of Guelders
A state of 1096 – 1795 — 699 years in Europe. The atlas records 1 thing within it — people 1. Its line of rulers holds 1 person.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 699 years
- 1096 – 1795
- Rulers
- 1
- the stadtholder
- Within it
- 1
- recorded row
- Symbol
- 1
- on record, with years
Where it sits in time
Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold.
Rulers
The line of stadtholder.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|
1 rulers, 0 with terms dated as terms. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.
Flag or arms
Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.
coat of arms, undatedGelre-4 wapen · Public domain
What happened within it, by century
Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.
1400 – 14991 row
- William IV, Lord of Egmont · ruler · 1412 – 1483
Among all states
Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.
- How long it stood699 years
stood longer than 93% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- Wars recorded per centurynone
had more wars on record per century than 44% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
- Rulers on record1
has more rulers on record than 13% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
Open in the atlas
- On the timeline, 1026 – 1865, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1446, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q152420 (CC0) · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.