Ancestral Trails 2016 » FLORIS IV OF HOLLAND (1210-1234)

Personal data FLORIS IV OF HOLLAND 

• He was born on June 24, 1210 in Vlaardingen, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.

  Attention: Age at marriage (??-12-1224) below 16 years (14).

• Title: Count of Holland
• He died on July 19, 1234 in Vlaardingen, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands, he was 24 years old.
• A child of WILLIAM I OF HOLLAND and ADELAIDE von GUELDERS

Household of FLORIS IV OF HOLLAND

He is married to MECHTILD de BRABANT.

They got married December 1224 at Frankfurt-am-Main, Hessen, Nassau, Prussia, he was 14 years old.

Child(ren):

1. ADELAIDE OF HOLLAND  1230-1283 
2. William II of HOLLAND  1227-???? 
3. Floris of HOLLAND  1228-1258
4. Margaret of HOLLAND  1231-1277
5. Mechtild of HOLLAND  1232-????

Notes about FLORIS IV OF HOLLAND

Floris IV (24 June 1210 - 19 July 1234) was a Dutch nobleman who was 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.

Family
He married before 6 December 1224 Matilde of Brabant, the sister of his stepmother, daughter of Duke Henry I of Brabant and Mathilde of Flanders also referred to as Maud of Boulogne and Alsace.

Issue
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
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floris_IV,_Count_of_Holland

Floris IV was the Count of Holland from 1222 to 1234. He was a son of William I of Holland and Adelaide of Geldern. Floris IV succeeded his father in 1222. Floris was a real knight, who went on crusade against the Stedingers north of Bremen in 1234. He died at a French tourney.

He married before December 6 1214 Matilde of Brabant, daughter of Duke Henry I of Brabant and Maud of Boulogne and Alsace. Their children were:
William II, Count of Holland (1227-1256).
Floris (ca. 1228 - 1258), Regent of Holland in 1256-1258.
Adelaide of Holland (ca. 1230-1284), married, in Frankfurt am Main in 1246, Jean I of Avesnes, Count of Hainaut. Their descendants eventually inherited Holland. She was Regent of Holland in 1258-1263.
Margaret (d. 1277), married ca. 1249 to Count Hermann I of Henneberg.
Mechtild
SOURCE: Findagrave.com

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