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Count of Holland
Floris IV
(24 June 1210 ? 19 July 1234) was the
count of Holland
from 1222 to 1234. He was born in
The Hague
, a son of
William I of Holland
and his first wife,
Adelaide of Guelders
.
Floris succeeded his father in 1222. His regent was Baldwin of Bentheim. He acquired the
Land of Altena
. He had constant disputes with the
bishop of Utrecht
,
Otto II of Lippe
, but helped him against the peasants of
Drenthe
in 1227. Floris fought in the
crusade against the Stedinger
north of
Bremen
in 1234.
On 19 July 1234, he was killed at a tournament in
Corbie
,
France
. He was buried at
Rijnsburg
Abbey.
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His brother was
Otto III van Holland
.
[1]
Floris married, before 6 December 1224, his step-aunt
Matilda
, daughter of Duke
Henry I of Brabant
.
[2]
They had five children:
- William II, Count of Holland
(1227–1256), married Elisabeth of Brunswick-Luneburg; parents of
Floris V, Count of Holland
- Floris de Voogd
(ca. 1228?1258), Regent of Holland in 1256?1258.
- Adelaide of Holland
(ca. 1230–1284), Regent of Holland in 1258?1263 married
John I of Avesnes
,
Count of Hainaut
.
- Margaret
(d. 1277), married Count
Herman I
of Henneberg-Coburg
- Machteld
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