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Birth:          ABT  923 of Egmond-Binnen, Noord Holland
Death:          6 May  988 Egmond Aan Den Hoef, Noord Holland
Burial:         Abdijkerk, Egmond Aan Den Hoef, Noord Holland

Notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirk_II,_Count_of_Holland
Dirk II or Theoderic II (920/930 – 6 May 988) was Count in Frisia (west of the Vlie) and 
Holland. He was the son of Count Dirk I and Geva (or Gerberge).

Career[edit]

In 983 Emperor Otto III confirmed his rights within the Duchy of Lower Lorraine to 
properties and territories in the counties of Maasland, Kinhem (Kennemerland) and 
Texla (Texel), thus stretching along the entire Hollandic coast (as well as inland). 
Count Dirk II built a fortress near Vlaardingen, which later was the site of a battle 
between his grandson Dirk III and an Imperial army under Godfrey II, Duke of Lower 
Lorraine.

Dirk II rebuilt Egmond Abbey and its wooden church in stone to house the relics of 
Saint Adalbert, the project starting in 950. Adalbert was not well known at that time, 
but he was said to have preached Christianity in the immediate surroundings two 
centuries earlier. The abbey was given to a community of Benedictine monks from 
Ghent, who replaced the nuns originally at Egmond Abbey, probably in the 970s. His 
daughter Erlint, Erlinde or Herlinde, who was abbess at the time, was made abbess of 
the newly founded Bennebroek Abbey instead.

Family[edit]

Dirk married Hildegarde (thought to be a daughter of Count Arnulf of Flanders, based 
on the names of her children), and had three known children. His son Arnulf became 
Count of Holland and Frisia after Dirk's death. The younger son Egbert became 
Archbishop of Trier in 977. His daughter Erlinde (Herlinde) was abbess of Egmond 
Abbey, until that institution was changed by her father from a nunnery into a 
monastery, after which she became abbess of Bennebroek.

Dirk died in 988 and was buried in the stone church at Egmond Abbey, which he had 
built there. Hildegard died two years later and was also buried there.

Parents
____ Dietrich (Dirk) I (ABT  880 - 6 Oct  939)
____ Geva (Gerberge) (ABT  880 - )

Siblings
____ Wickmann I (ABT  920 -  961)
____ Dietrich (Dirk) II (ABT  923 - 6 May  988)

Marriage To DE FLANDERS Hildegarde (ABT  935 - 10 Apr  990)
    m. ABT  958 

Notes

Parents
____ Arnulf (Arnold) (Arnoul) I "the Old" (ABT  899 - 28 Mar  965)
DE VERMANDOIS Adele (Alice) (Alix) (ABT  915 - ABT  960)

Children by DE FLANDERS Hildegarde ABT  935 - 10 Apr  990
OF GHENT Arnulf I (ABT  959 - 18 Sep  993)

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