• Dirk IV (ca. 1020/1030 – 13 January 1049) was Count of Holland from 1039 to 1049 (which was called Frisia at that time). Dirk's date of birth is unknown...
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  • Dirk III (also called Dirik or Theodoric) was the count with jurisdiction over what would become the county of Holland, often referred to in this period...
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    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...
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    Theoderic. Dirk I, Count of Holland (died 944) Dirk II, Count of Holland (944–988) Dirk III, Count of Holland (died 1039) Dirk IV, Count of Holland (1020–1049)...
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  • (1141 – August 1, 1190) was the count of Holland from 1157 to 1190. He was a son of Dirk VI and Sophia of Rheineck, heiress of Bentheim. Floris III was a loyal...
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    (Floris, Count of Holland). Another early usage of the word is a deed dated 1083 in which Dirk V used the term "Count of Holland" for himself. Holland is probably...
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    Dirk V (1052 – June 17, 1091) was Count of Holland (called Frisia at that time) from 1061 to 1091. Dirk V succeeded his father, Floris I, under the guardianship...
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    scientist Dirk III, Count of Holland (c. 982 – 1039), in Latin Theodoric Dirk IV, Count of Holland (c. 1020/1030 – 1049) Dirk V, Count of Holland (1052–1091)...
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  • count of Holland, then called Frisia west of the Vlie, from 1049 to 1061. Floris was born in Vlaardingen. He was a son of Dirk III and Othelindis of Nordmark...
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    and by the majority of the Hollanders. Emperor Otto IV acknowledged him as count of Holland in 1203 because he was a supporter of the Welfs. He and many...
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    Floris I, Count of Holland (ca.1017–1061) Count of Holland then called Frisia, 1049-1061 Dirk IV, Count of Holland (ca.1025–1049) was Count of Holland 1039–1049...
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    of Flanders by marriage to Robert I, Count of Flanders. She was regent of Holland in 1061-1067 during the minority of her son Dirk V, and regent of Flanders...
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    position of Dirk III became better after count William V of Holland was locked up because of insanity. In February 1358 William's younger brother Albert of Bavaria...
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    becoming count of Flanders, Robert was engaged in continued hostilities in Holland, defending the rights of his stepson Dirk V against Godfrey IV and William...
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    consequence of the guardianship, Dirk III grew up with the future William IV of Holland. It also meant that Dirk spent a lot of time in Mons in the County of Hainaut...
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    of Altena. He probably wanted to give it to Willem's younger brother Dirk, son of Gerard and the Count's sister Irmgard. In 1327 Count William III of...
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    died, John IV had been in conflict with the counts of Holland, and this probably favored his succession by Dirk Loef. However, Willem (VI) son of Willem V...
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  • William I. Ada was the only surviving daughter of Count Dirk VII of Holland and his wife Adelaide of Cleves. She succeeded her father but immediately...
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  • lord of Brederode. In 1226 Dirk was appointed drost at the court of the count of Holland. He served under Floris IV of Holland and William I of Holland. During...
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    serve Count William with 20 men for two months, when summoned. On 3 April 1357 Willem's younger brother Dirk Loef van Horne was granted the Land of Altena...
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    Van Brederode (redirect from Walraven IV)
    influence in the 13th century. Their partisanship with John of Avesnes, Count of Holland was not without importance, but it increased when the dispute between...
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    children were: Hildegard, born c. 934, died 990; she married Dirk II, Count of Holland. It is uncertain whether she is his daughter by his first or second...
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    1076 against Counts Dirk V of Holland and Robert I of Flanders. He was assassinated by spear in Vlaardingen while "answering the call of nature". Despite...
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  • about 1125), Count of Loon (Looz) from about 1079, son of Emmo, Count of Loon, and Suanhildis, daughter of Dirk III, Count of Holland, and his wife Othelandis...
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  • Otto I of Brandenburg Margaret (died after 1203), married 1182 Count Dietrich IV of Cleves Dirk VII, Count of Holland William I, Count of Holland Floris...
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    Hook and Cod wars (category County of Holland)
    perhaps saw the expanding middle classes of the time. In 1337 William IV succeeded his father as count of Holland, Zeeland and Hainaut (as William II). William...
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    between Dirk VI, Count of Holland, and Giselbert's son Otto II, to get Herman van Horne, grandson of Emmo, Count of Loon, recognized as Bishop of Utrecht...
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    Philip's seconders Count Dirk VII of Holland and Count Otto of Guelders, however, he switched sides in 1204, when he and King Philip II of France backed Philip...
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    refLex. Council of State (Belgium). 18 July 1860. Olivier Keun (11 March 2013). "Afkoop Scheldetol 150 jaar". G/Geschiedenis (in Dutch). Archived from...
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    Machteld van Voorne (category Medieval Dutch women)
    September 1337 Count William IV of Holland then granted all of Gerard's fiefs to Machteld. In return Machteld and Dirk promised to help the count with 150 knights...
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