FLORIS I, COUNT OF HOLLAND

'Floris I of Holland' (also called Florent I)born (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 vassals against the imperial authority.
He was murdered.

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Family and children

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

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★ Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis, Lines: 100A-22, 100A-23, 101-23.