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Birth:          ABT 1017 of Vlaardingen, Zuid-Holland
Death:          28 Jun 1061 nr Nederhemert, Gelderland
Cause of Death: murdered

Notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floris_I,_Count_of_Holland
Floris I of Holland (born in Vlaardingen – killed June 28, 1061 in Guelders (Gelderland), 
Netherlands) was Count of Holland, then called Frisia west of the Vlie, from 1049 to 
1061. He was a son of Dirk III and Othelindis.

He succeeded his brother Dirk IV, Count of Holland, who was murdered in 1049. He 
was involved in a war of a few Lotharingian vassals against the imperial authority. On 
a retreat from Zaltbommel he was ambushed and killed in battle at Nederhemert (called 
Hamerth at the time), on 28 June 1061.

Family and children[edit]

He married ca. 1050 Princess Gertrude of Saxony, daughter of Bernard II, Duke of 
Saxony and Eilika of Schweinfurt, and had at least three children by her:
1.Dirk V (c. 1052, Vlaardingen – 17 June 1091).
2.Bertha (c. 1055–1094, Montreuil-sur-Mer), who married Philip I of France in 1072.[1]
3.Floris (b. c. 1055), a canon at Liége.

Gertrude married secondly in 1063 Robert the Frisian, Count of Flanders,[1] who also 
acted as guardian for the children of her previous marriage and as regent for his 
stepson until 1071.

Parents
____ Dietrich (Dirk) III (ABT  981 - 27 May 1039)
____ Othelindia (Otelhild) ( 998 - 9 Mar 1044)

Siblings
____ Floris I (Florens) (ABT 1017 - 28 Jun 1061)

Marriage To OF SAXONY Gertrude (ABT 1028 - 4 Aug 1113)
    m. ABT 1050 

Notes

Parents
____ Bernard II (ABT  995 - 29 Jun 1059)
VON SCHWEINFURT Eilika (Elica) (ABT 1005 - 1059)

Children by OF SAXONY Gertrude ABT 1028 - 4 Aug 1113
OF HOLLAND Adele (ABT 1050 - 1085)
____ Dietrich (Dirk) V (ABT 1052 - 17 Jun 1091)
OF HOLLAND Bertha (ABT 1054 - 15 Oct 1094)

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