Individual Details

Floris I, Count of Holland

(1017 - 28 Jun 1061)

According to Wikipedia:

Floris I of Holland (born c. 1017 in Vlaardingen - killed June 28, 1061 in Guelders (Gelderland), Netherlands was Count of Holland, then called Frisia west of the Vlie, from 1049 to 1061. He was a son of Dirk III and Othelindis.

He succeeded his brother Dirk IV, Count of Holland, who was murdered in 1049. He was involved in a war of a few Lotharingian vassals against the imperial authority. On a retreat from Zaltbommel he was ambushed and killed in battle at Nederhemert (called Hamerth at the time), on 28 June 1061.

Family and children
He married ca. 1050 Gertrude of Saxony, daughter of Bernard II, Duke of Saxony and Eilika of Schweinfurt, and had at least three children by her:

Dirk V (c. 1052, Vlaardingen - 17 June 1091).
Bertha (c. 1055-1094, Montreuil-sur-Mer), who married Philip I of France in 1072.[1]
Floris (b. c. 1055), a canon at Liége.
Gertrude married secondly in 1063 Robert the Frisian, Count of Flanders,[1] who also acted as guardian for the children of her previous marriage and as regent for his stepson until 1071.

References
William (of Malmesbury), Gesta Regum Anglorum: The History of the English Kings: General introduction and commentary, Volume 2, Roger Aubrey Baskerville Mynors, Rodney M. Thomson and Michael Winterbottom, (Oxford University Press, 1999), 244.



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According to Wikipedia:

Floris I of Holland (born c. 1017 in Vlaardingen - killed June 28, 1061 in Guelders (Gelderland), Netherlands was Count of Holland, then called Frisia west of the Vlie, from 1049 to 1061. He was a son of Dirk III and Othelindis.

He succeeded his brother Dirk IV, Count of Holland, who was murdered in 1049. He was involved in a war of a few Lotharingian vassals against the imperial authority. On a retreat from Zaltbommel he was ambushed and killed in battle at Nederhemert (called Hamerth at the time), on 28 June 1061.

Family and children
He married ca. 1050 Gertrude of Saxony, daughter of Bernard II, Duke of Saxony and Eilika of Schweinfurt, and had at least three children by her:

Dirk V (c. 1052, Vlaardingen - 17 June 1091).
Bertha (c. 1055-1094, Montreuil-sur-Mer), who married Philip I of France in 1072.[1]
Floris (b. c. 1055), a canon at Liége.
Gertrude married secondly in 1063 Robert the Frisian, Count of Flanders,[1] who also acted as guardian for the children of her previous marriage and as regent for his stepson until 1071.

References
William (of Malmesbury), Gesta Regum Anglorum: The History of the English Kings: General introduction and commentary, Volume 2, Roger Aubrey Baskerville Mynors, Rodney M. Thomson and Michael Winterbottom, (Oxford University Press, 1999), 244.



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According to Wikipedia:

Floris I of Holland (born c. 1017 in Vlaardingen - killed June 28, 1061 in Guelders (Gelderland), Netherlands was Count of Holland, then called Frisia west of the Vlie, from 1049 to 1061. He was a son of Dirk III and Othelindis.

He succeeded his brother Dirk IV, Count of Holland, who was murdered in 1049. He was involved in a war of a few Lotharingian vassals against the imperial authority. On a retreat from Zaltbommel he was ambushed and killed in battle at Nederhemert (called Hamerth at the time), on 28 June 1061.

Family and children
He married ca. 1050 Gertrude of Saxony, daughter of Bernard II, Duke of Saxony and Eilika of Schweinfurt, and had at least three children by her:

Dirk V (c. 1052, Vlaardingen - 17 June 1091).
Bertha (c. 1055-1094, Montreuil-sur-Mer), who married Philip I of France in 1072.[1]
Floris (b. c. 1055), a canon at Liége.
Gertrude married secondly in 1063 Robert the Frisian, Count of Flanders,[1] who also acted as guardian for the children of her previous marriage and as regent for his stepson until 1071.

References
William (of Malmesbury), Gesta Regum Anglorum: The History of the English Kings: General introduction and commentary, Volume 2, Roger Aubrey Baskerville Mynors, Rodney M. Thomson and Michael Winterbottom, (Oxford University Press, 1999), 244.

Events

Birth1017Vlaardingen, Vlaardingen, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
Marriage1050Gertrude of Saxony
Death28 Jun 1061Nederhemert, Zaltbommel, Gelderland, Netherlands

Families

SpouseGertrude of Saxony (1030 - 1113)
ChildDirk V, Count of Holland (1052 - 1091)
ChildBertha of Holland (1055 - 1094)
FatherDirk III, Count of Holland (982 - 1039)
MotherLiving
SiblingLiving
FatherDirk III, Count of Holland (982 - 1039)
MotherLiving
SiblingLiving