Floris IV, Count of Holland

Florens ( Floris ) IV of Holland- Zeeland (* June 24, 1210; † July 13, 1234 ) was Count of Holland and Zeeland (Zeeland).

Life

He was the son of Count William I (* 1174, † February 4, 1222 ) and Adelaide of Geldern ( * 1180).

Florens IV was in 1222 succeeded his father under the guardianship of his uncle. He conquered in some battles the areas of Zeeland Flanders back and short term even the so-called Kingdom of Flanders. For Zealand but he still had to acknowledge the sovereignty of Flanders.

Under his government appeared 1229, the first document in the Dutch language in the Netherlands.

The Archbishop of Bremen, he helped against the Stedinger farmers. So he fought in 1234 in the Battle of Altenesch with. Shortly after this battle, a tournament was given to celebrate the victory in Noyon / Corbie. In this he fell against his tournament opponents Count Philip of Clermont, which also fell.

Marriage and issue

In 1224 he married Matilda of Brabant (* 1195, † December 21, 1267 ), daughter of Duke Henry I and widow of Henry II Welf Count Palatine of the Rhine († 1214 ).

  • Wilhelm II (* 1227, † January 28, 1256 ), Count of Holland and Roman- German King
  • Florens Vogt ( * ca 1228, † March 24, 1258 in Antwerp)
  • Adelheid of Holland ( * ca 1234, † 1284), Adelheid of Avesnes, heiress of Holland, Zeeland and regent from 1258 to 1263 ) ∞ 1246 Count John I of Avesnes and Hainaut (* April 1218, † December 24 1257 )
  • Margaret of Henneberg (* 1234, † March 26, 1276 ) ∞ 1249 by Count Hermann I of Henneberg -Coburg (* 1224, † 1290 )
William I, Count of Holland Henry I, Duke of Brabant Floris de Voogd Adelaide of Holland John I, Count of Hainaut Margaret of Holland, Countess of Henneberg Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie Integrated Authority File
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