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Birth:          ABT  880 of Noordwijk-Binnen, Zuid, Holland
Death:          6 Oct  939 
Burial:         Egmond-Binnen, Noord Holland

Notes
adherent of King Charles the Simple
d aft 6 Oct 929 and by 929
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirk_I,_Count_of_Holland
Count in Frisia’[edit]

The actual title of count Dirk I was ‘count in Frisia’. Dirk is thought to be a son of 
Gerulf II, the preceding ‘count in Frisia’, who is named by some sources as one of the 
counts who assassinated their Viking overlord Godfrid ‘the Sea King’ at a place 
named Herespich (modern Spijk) in 885.

Regarding Dirk I, almost nothing is known of his life, a situation further clouded by the 
present-day hypothesis that he had a son, Dirk (numbered Dirk I bis, to avoid 
confusion with the already established numbering), who succeeded him instead of the 
traditional view that he was succeeded by his supposed son Dirk II.

Founding of Egmond Abbey[edit]

In 922 Dirk was present at a place called Bladella (present day Bladel, in the extreme 
south of the Dutch province of Noord Brabant), at which he received certain lands ('at 
a place called Egmond') from the West Frankish king Charles the Simple. Dirk 
subsequently erected a nunnery at the said lands, at which nuns prayed continuously 
for the well-being of the comital dynasty. This was the origin of the later Egmond 
Abbey.

Under Dirk II the wooden convent was rebuilt in stone to house the relics of Saint 
Adalbert. Adalbert was not well known at that time, but he was said to have preached 
Christianity in the immediate surroundings two centuries earlier. The monastery was 
also changed to house a community of Benedictine monks from Ghent, replacing the 
nuns. Count Dirk and many of his descendants were buried in the abbey church.

Parents
____ Gerulf (ABT  840 - ABT  895)
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Siblings
____ Dietrich (Dirk) I (ABT  880 - 6 Oct  939)

Marriage To ____ Geva (Gerberge) (ABT  880 - )
    m.  

Notes

Parents
____ Meginhard (ABT  850 - )
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Children by ____ Geva (Gerberge) ABT  880 - 
____ Wickmann I (ABT  920 -  961)
____ Dietrich (Dirk) II (ABT  923 - 6 May  988)

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