Floris (Holland) van Holland (1210 - 1234)

Born 24 Jun 1210 in Holland [uncertain]

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Died 19 Jul 1234 at age 24 in Corbie, Picardy, France

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Biography

Floris IV, Count of Holland from 1222-1234^[1] or Florens^[2]

Floris was born on 24 June 1210 (on the next feast of St John the Baptist, 24 June 1215, he would be 5 years old^[3]). There appears to be no record of where he was born, but The Hague originated around 1230, when Floris purchased land to build a hunting residence, which his son, William II, extended into a palace, later called the Binnenhof. The village around the Binnenhof was first mentioned as Haga in a charter dated 1242.^[4]

Floris was the oldest son and heir of Willem I Count of Holland and his first wife, Adelheid van Gelre.^[1]

Floris was the brother of:

1. Otto, bishop of Utrecht, installed as 36th bishop of Utrecht in 1233, Regent of Holland from 1238-9, died 3 April 1249, buried at Utrecht Cathedral;^[1]
2. Willem, Regent of Holland from 1234 until 1238, killed in a tournament, died 30 August 1238;^[1]
3. Ada, Abbess at Rijnsburg in 1239, died 15 June 1258;^[1]
4. Rikarde, witnessed a charter in 1231, died 3 January 1262, buried in the monastery at Camp which she founded;^[1]

Floris was betrothed on 5 November 1214, aged four, to Mathilde de Brabant,^[3] and they married on 5 December 1224.^[1] Mahteld was the widow of Heinrich II Pfalzgraf bei Rhein,^[1] Count Palatine of the Rhine (died 1 May 1214), and daughter of Henri or Hendrik I, Duke of Lorraine and Brabant, by his first wife, Machtild or Mahaud, daughter and coheir of Mathieu of Flanders, Count of Boulogne.^[2] The marriage settlement agreed between their fathers was signed at Antwerp.^[3]

Children

1. Willem II, born 1227, died 28 January 1256,^[1] Count of Holland and Zeeland, King of the Romans;^[2]
2. Floris "de Voogd", died 26 March 1258, Regent of Holland 1248-58;^[1]
3. Aleide,^[2] died 1284, married on 9 October 1246, Jean d'Avesnes, Comte de Hainaut, son of Bouchard d'Avesnes and his wife, Marguerite II Countess of Flanders, Countess de Hainaut, Regent of Holland 1258-1263;^[1]
4. Margaretha, who was married to Hermann I, Count of Henneberg,^[2] Margareta died 26 March 1277 and was buried at Kloster Losduinen; she married at Mainz on 23 May 1249, her husband, Hermann Graf von Henneberg was the son of Poppo VII Graf von Henneberg and his second wife Jutta von Thüringen;^[1]
5. Machteld;^[2]
6. Rikarde, a daughter, founded the convent of "Campus Regalis" for her brother, Willem II, after his death on 28 January 1256;^[1]

Floris succeeded his father in 1222 as Floris IV Count of Holland.^[1] His regent was Baldwin of Bentheim. He acquired the Land of Altena. He had constant disputes with the bishop of Utrecht, Otto of Lippe, but helped him against the peasants of Drenthe in 1227. Floris went on crusade against the Stedingers north of Bremen in 1234.

Floris IV, Count of Holland, was killed by "Claromontensis comes" on 19 July 1234 at a tournament at Corbie, Picardy, France.^[2] He was buried at Reynsburch,^[1] (Rijnsburg Abbey, Zuid-Holland).

His widow, Mathilde, died VI Kalends January^[1] that is 22 December 1267.^[2]

Castle in Den Haag, seat of counts of Holland. 1230 property acquired, built 1248-1256

Seal-Charter

Datering: 1224-08-00; Zegel van Florencius IV de Hollandia Beschrijving: Jachtzegel: afb. van de graaf te paard naar L, met valk.
Translated: Date August 1224; Seal of Florencius IV de Hollandia Description: Hunting seal: image of the count on horseback to L, with falcon.
Opschrift-Inscription: /S F/LORE/NC(ii): [COMI]TIS//HOLLANDIE/
Zegelclausule: Ut hec igitur pia et salubris nostra concessio tam ^[5]

Research Notes

As of 22 January 2018, Floris has unsourced family members:

• a sister, Berthe; Cawley has no record of this sister;^[1]
• a sister, Jutta; Cawley has no record of this sister;^[1]
• a daughter, Berthe de Tourmignies; Cawley does not mention this daughter;^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 1.18} Charles Cawley, "Holland, Frisia, Gelre: Chapter 2. Counts of Holland [900]-1299: Floris IV died 1234", Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families, v4.1 Updated 16 November 2017, (http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/HOLLAND.htm#FlorisIVdied1234 : accessed 22 January 2018).
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7} Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, III:300.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} DiBe ID 15192, dans Diplomata Belgica. Les sources diplomatiques des Pays-Bas méridionaux aux Moyen Âge, Thérèse de Hemptinne, Jeroen Deploige, Jean-Louis Kupper et Walter Prevenier (dir.) (Bruxelles: Commission royale d’Histoire, depuis 2015). (http://www.diplomata-belgica.be/charter_details_en.php?dibe_id=15192 accessed 22 January 2018).
4. ↑ Wikipedia contributors, 'The Hague', Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 19 January 2018, (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Hague&oldid=821281967 : accessed 22 January 2018).
5. ↑ OA.102.0.0.2 , Zegel van Florencius IV de Hollandia. RDO_OA Ridderlijke Duitsche Orde Balije van Utrecht Bijlagen Zegels. Uitgaven: J. H. de Vey Mesdagh en J. A. de Boo, Liber Sigillorum. De zegels van het archief van de Ridderlijke Duitsche Orde, Balije van Utrecht, 1200-1800 (1995) I Auteur: Florencius IV de Hollandia Functie: comes Hollandensis Namen: Floris IV, comes Holland Organisatie: Het Utrechts Archief

• Rubincam, Milton. The House of Brabant, Ancestry of Philippa of Hainault, Wife of Edward III, The American Genealogist (1949) Vol. 25, Page 231: Buried in the monastery at Reinsburg.