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Female Countess Mechteld van Gelre of Nassau Click to view Countess Mechteld van Gelre of Nassau in the family tree

Mechteld was born in 1194 in Zutphen, Gelderland, Netherlands.1   Mechteld's father was Count Otto of Guelders I and her mother was Princess Richardis of Bavaria.  Her paternal grandparents were Count Hendrik van Guelders Zutphen II and Agnes von Arnstein; her maternal grandparents were Duke Otto Wittelsbach of Bavaria I and Countess Agnes de Looz and Rieneck. She had three brothers and four sisters, named Gerard, Hendrik, Lodewijk, Aleid, Adelheid, Margaretha and Irmgard.  She was the youngest of the eight children.

1 http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=bevangenealogy&id=I33043

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