Floris I, Count of Holland

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Floris I of Holland (1017 in Vlaardingen, Zuid Holland, Netherlands - June 28, 1061 in Gelderland, Netherlands) was Count of Holland (which was called Frisia at that time) from 1049 to 1061. He was a son of Dirk III and Othelindis of Nordmark.

He succeeded his brother Dirk IV who was murdered in 1049. He was involved in a war of a few Lotharingian vasals against the imperial authority.

He was murdered.

[edit] Family and children

He married ca. 1050 Princess Gertrude of Saxony, daughter of Bernard II, Duke of Saxony and Eilika of Schweinfurt, and had seven children by her:

1. Albrecht (b. ca. 1051), a canon in Liege.
2. Dirk V (ca. 1052, Vlaardingen–17 June 1091).
3. Pieter (b. ca. 1053), a canon in Liége.
4. Bertha (ca. 1055–1094, Montreuil-sur-Mer), who married Philip I of France in 1072.
5. Floris (b. ca. 1055), a canon in Liége.
6. Machteld (b. ca. 1057)
7. Adela (b. ca. 1061), who married Count Baudouin I of Guines.

Preceded by Dirk IV

Count of Friesland west of the Vlie 1049 - 1061

Succeeded by Dirk V