The Counts of Holland & Zeeland

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The county of Holland was created in the 10th century for Count Dirk of Holland who came from a noble family in Aquitania who said they could trace their anscestery back to Troy.

The county of Holland was ruled by several dynasties and formally existed until the peace of Westphalia in 1648. The counts of Holland became Counts of Zeeland too in 1299.

- 922 - 1299; Dynasty of Holland
- 1299 - 1354; Dynasty of Avesnes (Counts of Hainaut)
- 1354 - 1432; Dynasty of Wittelsbach
- 1432 - 1482; Dynasty of Valois (Dukes of Burgundy)
- 1482 - 1648; Dynasty of Habsburg (Holy Roman Emperors, Kings of Spain)

 

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From wikipedia:

The first count of Holland, Dirk I, was the son or foster-son of Gerolf, Count in Frisia (Dijkstra suggests that Dirk may have been the son of a sister of Gerolf and that his own father died while he was still an infant). He received land around Egmond from Charles the Fat at a place called Bladella (modern day Bladel near Eindhoven, The Netherlands) in 922. This is seen as the beginning of the county of Holland. However, until about 1100, the usual names for the county were West-Friesland, Frisia or Kennemerland; in spite of this the counts from Dirk I onwards are named of Holland.

Note that the chronology of the first few counts is uncertain. The existence of a count between Dirk I and Dirk II was only recently suggested, since it is thought that the references to counts named Dirk between 896 and 988 refer to three, not two, different counts. This third Count Dirk is placed between Dirk and I and II and numbered as Dirk I bis to avoid confusion with the already established numbering referring to the other counts of Holland named Dirk.

• Gerolf (r. 880 – 896)
• Dirk I (r. 896 – 931)
• Dirk I bis (r. 931 - 939), son of Dirk I
• Dirk II (r. 939 – 988), son of Dirk I bis
• Arnulf (r. 988 – 993), son of Dirk II
• Dirk III Hierosolymita (r. 993 – 1039), son of Arnulf I
• Dirk IV (r. 1039 – 1049), son of Dirk III
• Floris I (r. 1049 – 1061), brother of Dirk IV
  • Gertrude of Saxony (regent), widow of Floris I
  • Robert the Frisian (regent), second husband of Gertrude
  • Godfrey the Hunchback, Duke of Lower Lorraine (regent)
• Dirk V (r. 1061 – 1091), son of Floris I
• Floris II the Fat (r. 1091 – 1121), first to be called 'Count of Holland', son of Dirk V
• Dirk VI (r. 1121 – 1157), son of Floris II
• Floris III (r. 1157 – 1190), son of Dirk VI
• Dirk VII (r. 1190 – 1203), son of Floris III
• Ada (r. 1203 - 1207), daughter of Dirk VII
  • Louis II of Loon (r. 1203 - 1207), husband of Ada
• William I (r. 1203 – 1222), brother of Dirk VII
• Floris IV (r. 1222 – 1234), son of William I
• William II (r. 1234 – 1256), King of Germany, son of Floris IV
• Floris V the Peasants' God (r. 1256 – 1296), son of William II
  • John III, Lord of Renesse (r. 1296, regent)
  • Wolfert I, Lord of Borselen (r. 1296 - 1299, regent)
  • John II, Count of Hainaut (r. 1299 as regent, inherited the county after John I's death, see below)
• John I (r. 1296 – 1299), son of Floris V

 

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The family tree, from wikipedia and free of use:

 

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For Dutch posters: the next issue of the 'Historisch Nieuwsblad' will have an article about Countess Jacqueline of Holland & her eventful & tragic life.

 

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The Countdoms of Holland and Zeeland



Count of Holland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

County of Zeeland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[CyrilVladisla]

Floris V was the Count of Holland from 1256 to 1296.
He was nicknamed "God of the Peasants".
He behaved "as if he were the Good Lord himself with his peasants".
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Floris II was the Count of Holland from 1091 to 1121.
His wife's name was originally Gertrude.
She had her name changed to Petronila.
This showed her loyalty to the Holy See.
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Floris V was the Count of Holland from 1256 to 1296.
He was nicknamed "God of the Peasants".
He behaved "as if he were the Good Lord himself with his peasants".
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Floris V,Count of Holland & Zeeland

 

[Lee-Z]

Floris II was the Count of Holland from 1091 to 1121.
His wife's name was originally Gertrude.
She had her name changed to Petronila.
This showed her loyalty to the Holy See.
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For more on Floris (nicknamed 'the fat one') see the wiki page
Floris II van Holland - Wikipedia

(Changing name to Petronilla was probably to show loyalty to St. Peter (Petronilla/Petronella is the female version) and the pope, according to wiki)

 

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Burial sites of the Counts/Countess's of Holland

Dirk I, Count of Holland died 944
Burial at the Benedictine Egmond Abbey

Dirk II ,Count of Holland died 988
Burial at the Benedictine Egmond Abbey
His consort Hildegard of Flanders died c.990 and was also buried at the Benedictine Egmond Abbey.

Arnulf, Count of Holland died 993
Burial at the Benedictine Egmond Abbey
His consort,Lutgardis of Luxemburg died c1003 was also buried at the Benedictine Egmond Abbey.

Dirk III, Count of Holland died 1039
Burial at the Benedictine Egmond Abbey


Dirk IV, Count of Holland died January,1049
Burial at the Benedictine Egmond Abbey

Floris I, Count of Holland died June 1061
Burial at the Benedictine Egmond Abbey
His consort,Gertrude of Saxony died in August 1113 and was buried at Saint Walburga church in Furnes.

Dirk V, Count of Holland died June 1091
Burial at the Benedictine Egmond Abbey

Floris II, Count of Holland died March 1121
Burial at the Benedictine Egmond Abbey


Dirk VI,Count of Holland died August 1157.
Buried at Rijnsburg Abbey.
His consort Sophia of Rheineck died in 1176 in Jerusalem.

Floris III, Count of Holland died August 1190
The Count died at Antioch on the 3rd Crusade and was buried there.
His consort,Ada of Huntingdon died in 1206 and was buried at Middelburg Abbey.


Dirk VII, Count of Holland died November 1203
Buried at the Church of St Nicholas (now the Nieuwkerk) in Dordrecht.

Ada, Countess of Holland and Loon,died 1223
The Countess is buried at the Cistercian Herkenrode Abbey.
Her husband,Louis II, Count of Loon died in 1218 and was also buried at the Cistercian Herkenrode Abbey.

William I, Count of Holland died in February,1222.
Buried at Rijnsburg Abbey.
His first wife,Adelaide of Guelders died in 1218 and was buried at Rijnsburg Abbey
His second wife Marie de Brabant was a Dowager Holy Roman Empress who died in 1260 and was buried at the collegiale chrch of St Peter in Leuven.

 

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Floris IV, Count of Holland died July 1234
Buried at Rijnsburg Abbey.

William II, Count of Holland and Zeeland died January 1256.
Buried at Middelburg Abbey.
His consort,Elisabeth of Brunswick died in May,1266 and was buried at Middelburg Abbey.


Floris V,Count of Holland and Zeeland died 1296.
Buried at Rijnsburg Abbey.

John I,Count of Holland and Zeeland died 1299
Buried in Haarlem?

John II,Count of Holland,Zealand and Hainaut died August 1304.

 

[CyrilVladisla]

Charles the Simple endowed Count Dirk I.
http://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-charles-the-simple-endows-count-dirk-i-76396399.html

 

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The badly damaged tomb of Willem II of Holland at the the Abbey church of Middelburg.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipe...Wilhelm-II-von-Holland-Grab-in-Middelburg.jpg

 

[lucien]

Floris IV, Count of Holland died July 1234
Buried at Rijnsburg Abbey.

William II, Count of Holland and Zeeland died January 1256.
Buried at Middelburg Abbey.
His consort,Elisabeth of Brunswick died in May,1266 and was buried at Middelburg Abbey.


Floris V,Count of Holland and Zeeland died 1296.
Buried at Rijnsburg Abbey.

John I,Count of Holland and Zeeland died 1299
Buried in Haarlem?

John II,Count of Holland,Zealand and Hainaut died August 1304.

Too bad the abbey is gone,just some ruins..

 

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Rijnsburg Abbey its tombs and art work were all lost as they were pillaged and destroyed in 1574,however an archaeological excavations made in 1949 discovered the remains of Petronilla of Saxony (wife of Floris II of Holland) and their son Floris de Zwarte.

 

[CyrilVladisla]

Arnulf was the Count of Holland from 988 to 993.
Illustration of Arnulf I, Count of Flanders Arnulf I, Count of Flanders Stock Photo - Alamy

 

[Marengo]

Arnulf I of Flanders and Arnulf I of Holland are not the same person. The Flemish one was the grandfather of the count of Holland via his daughter Hildegard of Flanders who married count Dirk II of Holland.

 

[Blog Real]

William II was the Count of Holland and Zeeland from 1234 until his death. He was elected anti-king of Germany in 1248 and ruled as sole king from 1254 onwards.
More information: William II of Holland - Wikipedia

 

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Willem II being Invested in the Hague