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Willem Graaf van Holland I


Preferred Parents:
Father: Floris van Holland III, b. 1141 in Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland   d. 1 AUG 1190 in Antioch, Hatay, Turkey
Mother: Ada of Huntingdon , b. 1139 in Huntingdonshire, England   d. about 11 January 1204 or 1206 in Middelburg, Zeeland, Netherlands

Family 1: Jutta Amstel van Pumbeke,    b. ABT 1168    d. 26 FEB 1218
  1. Jutta van Holland, b. ABT 1195 in Delft, South Holland, Netherlands     d. 1270 in Veere, Zeeland, Netherlands
Family 2: Maria van Brabant,    b. 1189 in Leuven, Louvain, Vlaams-Brabant, Vlaanderen, België (Heiliges Römisches Reich)    d. 9 MAR 1260 in Keulen, Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Heiliges Römisches Reich
Family 3: Adelheid von Geldern,    b. wohl spätestens um 1174   
  1. Floris van Holland IV, b. 24 JUN 1210 in The Hague, Holland, Netherlands     d. 13 JUL 1234 in Corbie, Somme, Hauts-de-France, France
Sources:
  1. Title: Legacy NFS Source: I Count of Holland Willem -
    Author: Stirnet.com, Peter Barns-Graham, Chairman, Name: http://www.stirnet.com;, Page number: Holland1, Geldern1, Brabant02
    Note: Peter Barns-Graham, Chairman, Stirnet.com (http://www.stirnet.com).
    Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:3246398939
  2. Title: William I of Holland, "Find A Grave Index"
    Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVLW-SF5Q : 8 August 2020), William I of Holland, ; Burial, Rijnsburg, Katwijk Municipality, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands, Abdij van Rijnsburg; citing record ID 89856123, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
    Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVLW-SF5Q;
  3. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Willem I Count Holland -
    Author: Royalty for Commoners, 2nd Ed; Roderick W Stuart {1988}, Page number: 72-27, 304-27
    Note: Source Media Type: Book
    Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2736742394
  4. Title: William I of Holland, "Find A Grave Index"
    Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVLW-SF5Q : 8 August 2020), William I of Holland, ; Burial, Rijnsburg, Katwijk Municipality, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands, Abdij van Rijnsburg; citing record ID 89856123, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
    Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVLW-SF5Q;
  5. Title: Foundation for Medieval Genealogy
    Publication: Name: https://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/HOLLAND.htm#WillemIdied1222B;
    Note: WILLEM of Holland, son of FLORIS III Count of Holland & his wife Ada of Scotland (-4 Feb 1222). The Chronologia Johannes de Beke names (in order) "Theodricum succedentem comitem Hollandie, Wilhelmum comitem Orientalis Frisie, Florencium prepositum Traiecetensis ecclesie, Robertum presidium Kenemarie, Beatricem, Elizabeth, Adelheydim et Margaretam comitissam Clivie" as the children of Count Floris III & his wife[507]. "Theodericus Hollandie comes…comitis Florentii et Ade comitisse filius" donated property at Poeldijk bij Naaldwijk to the church of St Maria, Utrecht by charter dated 1198, in the presence of "Ada mater mea, Willelmus frater meus comes Frisie, Margareta soror mea, Florentius frater meus…"[508]. The Chronologia Johannes de Beke records that "Wilhelmum comitem" was received "in Orientalis Frisia" after his marriage[509]. The Gesta Episcopum Traiectensium names "Theodericum comitem Hollandie fratrem suum Wilhelmum" when recording the disagreement between the two brothers[510]. The Chronologia Johannes de Beke records that "Wilhelmus comes Orientalis Frisie" conspired after the death of his brother Count Dirk VII in 1203, with the support of "Florencius frater suus Traiectensis prepositus, Otto comes de Benthem ipsius patruus" and others, against "Ludovicum comitem de Loon…ac Adelheidim Hollandie viduam"[511]. He succeeded his niece in 1203 as WILLEM I Count of Holland. The Chronologia Johannes de Beke records that "Wilhelmus comes Orientalis Frisie" conspired after the death of his brother Count Dirk VII in 1203, with the support of "Florencius frater suus Traiectensis prepositus, Otto comes de Benthem ipsius patruus" and others, against "Ludovicum comitem de Loon…ac Adelheidim Hollandie viduam", in a later passage recording that "Ludovicus comes de Loen" was defeated and expelled from Holland, after which Willem succeeded as count[512]. Matthew Paris records that “duos...capitaneos Willelmum...Houlandiæ ducem et comitem de Weiz Georgium” besieged “Alchaciam” after landing at Lisbon in 1217[513]. The Chronologia Johannes de Beke records the death "1223 II Non Feb" of Count Willem[514]. m firstly (Stavoren, Friesland 1197) ADELHEID van Gelre, daughter of OTTO I Graf van Gelre & his wife Richardis of Bavaria (-4 Feb 1218, bur Rijnsburg). The Annales Egmundani record the marriage in 1197 of "Wilhelmum fratrem Theoderici comitis" and "filiam comitis Ottonis [Pictavis Aquisgrani]"[515]. The Chronologia Johannes de Beke records the marriage of "Wilhelmum comitem" and "Otto comes…Adelheidem suam filiam", specifying that it was celebrated "in Stavria"[516]. The Gesta Epsicoporum Traiectensium records the marriage of "Wilhelmum" and "Otto comes Gelrensis…filiam"[517]. The Chronologia Johannes de Beke records the death "1219 II Id Feb" of "comitissa" and her burial at Rijnsburg[518]. Beke's Egmondsch Necrologium records the death "pridie Id Feb" 1218 of "Aleidis uxor prima Wilhelmi primi comitis XII"[519]. m secondly (Jul 1220) as her second husband, MARIE de Brabant, widow of Emperor OTTO IV King of Germany, daughter of HENRI I Duke of Brabant & his first wife Mathilde de Flandre ([1191]-[9 Mar/14 Jun] 1260, bur Louvain, église collégiale de Saint Pierre). The Gesta Abbatem Trudonensium records that "Henricus dux Brabancie…filiam suam Ottoni in uxorem dare promisit"[520]. The Chronicæ Regiæ Coloniensis record the marriage in 1214 of "Otto imperator" and "filiam ducis Brabantie"[521]. The Genealogia Ducum Brabantiæ Heredum Franciæ names "Maria imperatrix Romanorum" as the eldest of the four daughters of "Henricus dux" & his wife Mathilde[522]. The Chronologia Johannes de Beke records that Count Willem married secondly "Mariam", but does not state her origin[523]. The Chronologia Johannes de Beke records that Count Willem married secondly "Mariam", but does not state her origin[524]. The Oude Kronik van Brabant records that Marie was buried "Lovanii…in ecclesia Sancti Petri" with her husband[525]. Count Willem & his first wife had five children: 1. FLORIS (24 Jun 1210-Corbie 19 Jul 1234, bur Rijnsburg). 2. OTTO (-3 Apr 1249, bur Utrecht Cathedral). 3. WILLEM (-30 Aug 1238). 4. ADA (-15 Jun 1258). 5. RIKARDE (-3 Jan 1262, bur Camp).
  6. Title: Our royal, titled, noble and commoner ancestors
    Author: Citations [S2] Detlev Schwennicke, Europaische Stammtafeln, New Series, Vol. I/2, Tafel 237. [S1274] Unknown author, Europaische Stammtafeln by Isenburg, chart 2, Vol. 2. [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. I, p. 500. [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. III, p. 298-299. [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. III, p. 298. [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. I, p. 24-42.
    Publication: Name: https://www.our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p186.htm#i5572;
    Note: Wilhelm I, Count of Holland & Zealand1,2,3,4 Last Edited 4 Apr 2020 M, #5572, b. circa 1170, d. 4 February 1223 Father Florent III, Count of Holland, Earl of Ross, Count of West Sealand5 b. c 1138, d. 1 Aug 1190 Mother Ada of Scotland5 b. c 1146, d. bt 11 Jan 1216 - 11 Jan 1222 Wilhelm I, Count of Holland & Zealand was born circa 1170.4 He married Adelaide de Gueldres, daughter of Otto III or I, Count of Gueldres, Zealand, Zutphen, Holland, & East Friesland and Richilde von Wittelsback, in 1197; They had 3 sons (Floris IV, Count of Holland; Otto, Bishop of Utrecht; & Willem, Regent of Holland) & 2 daughters (Ada, Abbesss of Rijnsburg; & Richardis, a nun).4 Wilhelm I, Count of Holland & Zealand married Maria of Brabant, daughter of Heinrich I 'the Warlike', Duke of Brabant & Lorraine, Markgraf von Antwerp and Maud of Flanders, in July 1220; No issue.1,6,3,4 Wilhelm I, Count of Holland & Zealand died on 4 February 1223.1,4 Family 1 Adelaide de Gueldres b. c 1186, d. 4 Feb 1218 Children Otto, Bishop of Utrecht, Regent of Holland d. 3 Apr 1249 Wilhelm, Regent of Holland d. 30 Aug 1238 Rikarde of Holland d. 3 Jan 1262 Ada, Abbess of Rijnsburg d. 15 Jun 1258 Florent IV, Count of Holland+4 b. 24 Jun 1210, d. 19 Jul 1234 Family 2 Maria of Brabant b. c 1191, d. 14 Jun 1260
  7. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Willem I Count Holland -
    Author: Ancestral Roots of Certain Americian Colonists, 7th Edition, by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr, Page number: 100-27
    Note: Source Media Type: Book
    Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2736741115
  8. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Guillaume I de Holland Ct de Holland -
    Author: Royal Index, University of Hull, England, Internet, Internet, www.dcs.hull.ac.uk
    Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2332880681
  9. Title: Source: Frederick Lewis Weis & Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr., Ancestral Roots of certain American colonists..., (Edition 7, Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, 1992), 100-27
  10. Title: Wikipedia -Willem I van Holland
    Publication: Name: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willem_I_van_Holland;
    Note: William I (1168 – 4 February 1222 ) was Count of Holland . He was a younger son of Count Floris III and Ada van Huntingdon and succeeded his brother Dirk VII , who died at the end of 1203, in a controversial succession with his niece Ada van Holland . Youth William I was the third [1] son ​​of Earl Floris III and Ada van Huntingdon [2] . He was named after his uncle the Scottish king William the Lion . In 1180 he was mentioned as a witness in a Flemish charter [3] and in 1189 he accompanied his father and uncle Otto I of Bentheim in the retinue of Emperor Frederick Barbarossa in the Third Crusade . The emperor drowned during that crusade on June 10, 1190in a mountain river, which greatly demotivated the military. A few months later, Count Floris died of a contagious disease. William joined what remained of the Imperial army led by Frederick IV of Swabia , son of the drowned Emperor. They moved on to the Holy Land and from October 1190 reinforced the demoralized besiegers of Akko there . The city fell after the arrival of Richard the Lionheart and King Philip II of France in July 1191, but disagreements arose over the division of the spoils of war between the English and the French. The Dutch then decided to return home. William returned in September 1191as an experienced warrior back in Holland. A few years later, differences of opinion with his older brother Dirk VII , who had succeeded their father Floris III as Count of Holland, ran high. Willem then sought support from the Frisians in West Friesland , who were always ready to revolt . Because Dirk was not in the country at the time, [4] his wife Countess Aleid moved with an army to West Friesland . In November 1195 there was a meeting near Alkmaar between the countess and her brother-in-law Willem. Aleid managed to turn the tide by the leaders of Niedorp and Winkelto buy. They took off, after which Willem couldn't do much but flee. Eventually the quarrel between the two brothers was settled after the mediation of their uncles, and Willem was given the administration of the county of Midden-Friesland . Count of Friesland As count in Friesland, Willem van Holland had to deal with his southern neighbor Hendrik van Kuinre , nicknamed De Kraan. This local nobleman, Viscount of Kuinre for the Utrecht bishop, has been looting the south of Central Friesland since 1187 and robbing merchants who passed his castle. Willem founded his own stronghold near Oosterzee and from there he marched with an army to Kuinre in 1197 . There he captured the Kuinderburcht and destroyed it thoroughly. [5] Dirk van Holland, bishop-elect of Utrecht and uncle of Willem and Dirk VII, was on his way to Rome to be ordained and was therefore unable to respond. Count Dirk VII of Holland replaced his uncle during his absence and controlled the Sticht from Ter Horst Castle near Rhenen. Willem wanted to defend his action against his brother, despite his mother's advice against it, but was captured in Ter Horst by Hendrik van Kuinre. William, however, escaped in the harsh winter of 1197 and fled to Count Otto I of Gelre , an opponent of Dirk VII. At the beginning of 1198 Willem te Stavoren married the only 10-year-old Aleid van Gelre , the daughter of his host. [6] Battle for Holland Dirk VII died in 1203. His daughter Ada was his only heir. His widow Aleid immediately married her to Lodewijk II van Loon in order to retain power in the county herself. [7] To the great indignation of various nobles and the monks of Egmond, Dirk VII was still lying in state while his daughter's wedding was already being celebrated. Willem did not receive a safe-conduct from his sister-in-law to pay his last respects to his brother in Egmond. Willem also claimed the succession in Holland and gathered a group of old friends among the nobility around him to back up his claim. Thus arose what was later called the Loonse War . In the beginning Willem had the upper hand and managed to capture Ada on theCastle of Leiden and to drive Lodewijk and Aleid out of Holland. They fled to Utrecht. William sent Ada to watch over King John the Land of England. In 1204 Lodewijk formed a strong alliance with the bishops of Utrecht and Liège, and the counts of Flanders, Namur , Ahr and Berg . With this support, Lodewijk was able to recapture almost the entire county of Holland. But Louis was unable to keep his allies and in 1205 and 1206 William was able to regain his lost territories piece by piece. In 1206 a peace was concluded whereby Holland was divided: Willem received an amount from the toll of Geervliet , some islands of Zeeland east of the Scheldt and part of Holland, especially the southern Grote Waard ) and Lodewijk received the northern part of Holland. The river Maas probably formed the border.[8] In practice Willem quickly took over the entire county of Holland and Lodewijk made no attempt to change this. After Willem had already been named Count of Holland by his peers in 1208,Emperor Otto IV of Brunswijk recognized him in 1213 as Count of all of Holland. [9] Count of Holland Willem's administration was important for the development of Holland as a trading country. His brother Dirk VII had begun arranging import duties for foreign merchants through the circle of tolls he placed along the rivers flowing into Holland. In doing so, he favored trading cities such as Dordrecht. Count Willem recognized the city rights given by Dirk to Geertruidenberg (1213), Middelburg (1217), Zierikzee (1219?) and Dordrecht (1220) and Leidenand expanded them, whereby Dordrecht (which had already received approvals shortly after 1195 and just before 1200) was given the right to vote. The city could thus extend its own rights as needed without the need of the count's permission. It was the first time that a Dutch city was given such a right. In addition, Count Willem promoted the internal organization of reclaimed parts of Holland, including the Grote Waard . In 1214 William fought with Emperor Otto IV in the Battle of Bouvines . After this battle was lost by the Emperor, the Count gave his support to Roman King Frederick II of Hohenstaufen . In 1216 William took part in the expedition of then Prince Louis VIII of France to England. In response, the English king John recognized Lodewijk van Loon as Count of Holland shortly before his death (1216), but he died before he could do anything with it (1218). Jan did manage to have Willem excommunicated . Fifth Crusade Sculpture of Count Willem I at the Koning Willem-Alexandergemaal , Katwijk, ( Oswald Wenckebach , 1954) To undo his excommunication, William took part in the Fifth Crusade . [10] As one of the commanders of an army of Frisians , Dutchmen and Flemings , Willem sailed in June 1217 via England along the European coast on his way to the Holy Land . Due to a storm, the fleet was shattered and only reunited in Lisbon. The bishop of Lisbon knew the crusaderspersuade him to help him fight the still existing Moorish presence in his country. William I and his co-captain and their men complied with this request, but the Frisians kept their crusading vow and carried on. On July 30, 1217 , the attack on Alcácer do Sal , a Moorish fortress some 70 km from Lisbon, began with the help of an army of Portuguese and groups of Knights Templar , Knights Hospitaller and the Order of Santiago of the Sword . After a heavy siege, the Moors of Alcácer surrendered on October 21, 1217about. The survivors were all enslaved and sold unless they converted to Christianity. The church tried to keep the Crusaders in the Iberian Peninsula to march against the Spanish Moors the following year. William was well aware of this and asked Pope Honorius III for permission and exemption from the earlier crusade vow. The Pope refused this request and obliged them to set out for Acre . Willem wintered with only part of the fleet in Portugal and in 1218 would follow the Frisians that had passed through earlier. Not long after Easter 1218 (April 15), Willem arrived with the Frisians, Dutch and Germans in Akko, where the other crusaders had already gathered. It was decided to capture the northern Egyptian city of Damiate , so that the rest of the Ayyubid - ruled empire could then be taken. On May 27, 1218, the Crusaders arrived at Damiate and ingeniously captured the Chain Tower at the end of August, which protected the city on the Nile. Until the summer of 1219 there was fighting between the Crusaders and the new Egyptian Sultan al-Kamil . When the conquest did not progress and the besieged became increasingly distressed, the sultan proposed breaking the siege of Damiate in exchange forJerusalem and all sorts of other favorable conditions. Most of the crusaders welcomed this proposal, but the ecclesiastical orders persuaded the papal envoy Pelagius to refuse it. Not by negotiation, but by battle, Jerusalem had to be taken. Count Willem had had enough and he left (perhaps wounded in the last battles, in which his co-commander had died) back home on 14 September. On November 5, 1219 , the city fell to the Crusaders. Again al-Kamil proposed an exchange but again to no avail. Due to a confusion of the two proposals, it is thought that William I was still involved in the fall of the city. Back in Holland it turned out that his wife Countess Aleid (February 12, 1218) had died. Willem remarried in 1220 to the widow of Emperor Otto IV, and died a short time later on February 4, 1222. He is buried in Rijnsburg Abbey . Marriages and children Willem I married (1) Aleid van Gelre (ca. 1187 – 1218), eldest daughter of Otto I van Gelre , at the beginning of 1198 in Stavoren . Five children were born from this marriage: Ada (1208 – 1258), abbess of Rijnsburg Floris IV (1210 – 1234), successor to his father Willem (1212 Otto (1214 – 1249), bishop of Utrecht Ricardis (1216 – January 3, 1262) Wilhem married (2) Maria van Leuven in July 1220 . This marriage has remained childless.
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