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This third Count Dirk is placed between Dirk 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. The counts of West-Frisia ruled locally in the name of the archbishop of Utrecht, but over time, the counts of Holland came to dominate the bishopric of ...
Dirk VI, Count of Holland, 1114–1157, and his mother Petronella visiting the work on the Egmond Abbey, Charles Rochussen, 1881. Count Willem II of Holland Granting Privileges by Caesar van Everdingen and Pieter Post, 1654. As a result of a promise he had made during the Frisian rebellion, Dirk III went on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem.
Count William was married twice. First, he was married in 1197 at Stavoren to Adelaide of Guelders, daughter of Otto I, Count of Guelders and Richarde of Bavaria. They had the following children: Floris IV (1210 – 19 July 1234), who succeeded William I as count of Holland; Otto (died in 1249), regent of Holland in 1238–1239, bishop of Utrecht
John I (1284 – 10 November 1299) was Count of Holland and Zeeland as son of Count Floris V.John inherited the county in 1296 after the murder of his father. [1]Shortly after his birth, after negotiations between Floris and King Edward I of England in April 1285, [2] he was betrothed to Elizabeth, a daughter of Edward and Eleanor of Castile.
The actual title of count Dirk I was 'count in Frisia'. Dirk is thought to be a son of Gerulf II, [1] the preceding 'count in Frisia', who is named by some sources as one of the counts who assassinated their Viking overlord Godfrid 'the Sea King' at a place named Herespich (modern Spijk) in 885.
Count Dirk was a member of the house of Holland, an important family within Germany at that time. His mother, Luitgard of Luxemburg, was regent in the county while Dirk was still a minor, from 993 to 1005. She was the sister-in-law of Emperor Henry II, and with his help, she managed to maintain the county for her son. After Dirk assumed the ...
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Dirk V (c. 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 of his mother, Gertrude of Saxony. William I, Bishop of Utrecht, took advantage of the young ruler