 Abt 1055 - 1091 (36 years)
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| Name |
HOLLAND Theodorus |
| Birth |
Abt 1055 |
Netherlands  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
17 Jun 1091 |
Netherlands |
| Notes |
- Theodore V (Dirk) [Theoderici V filii Florentii comitis[1]], Count of West-Frisia 1061-1091 and Count of Holland 1081-1091 was born about 1052 at Dordrecht.[2]
Dirk V, was the son and heir of Floris I, and Count of Holland from 1049 until 1061. He wife was, Gertrud Princess of Saxony.[2]
Dirk V was the brother of:[2]
Adelheid Countess of Holland, married with Arnulf IV (I) Count of Looz born about 1044 died about 1141;
Albrecht Count of Holland born about 1051 Dordrecht;
Dirk V Count of Holland born about 1052, Dordrecht, died 17 June 1091;
Pieter Count of Holland born about 1053, Dordrecht;
Bertha Countess of Holland born about 1054, Dordrecht, died 1093/94, Montreuil-sur-Loire France;
Floris Count of Holland born about 1055, Dordrecht, died young;
Machteld Countess of Holland born about 1057, Dordrecht;
Floris Count of Holland born about 1059, Dordrecht, died young;
Adela (Christina) Countess of Holland born about 1061, Dordrecht, died 1085;
His father, Floris I, was murdered near Nederhemert, Gelderland, Netherlands, on 28 June 1061, and he succeeded his father as Dirk V Count of Holland under the guardianship of his mother, Gertrude of Saxony. Dirk's lands were limited to those west of the Vlie and around the mouths of the Rhine because William I, Bishop of Utrecht, claimed and occupied territory in Holland that was confirmed to William by two charters of the emperor Henry IV. (April 30, 1064 and May 2, 1064).[2]
In 1063, Dirk's mother, Gertrude, married Robert, the second son of Baldwin V of Flanders, and Robert became ruler of all Frisia (Zeeland), partly in his own right and partly that of his stepson, and was known by his Flemish Countrymen as Robert the Frisian. The death of Robert's brother, Baldwin VI. in 1070 led to civil war in Flanders which Robert won in a decisive victory at Cassel in February 1071.[2]
During the civil war in Flanders, the people in the lands held by William of Utrecht rose in revolt. By order of the emperor Henry IV, an army under the command of Godfrey IV (the Hunchback), duke of Lower Lorraine, suppressed the rebellion. On 26 February 1076, Duke Godfrey IV died (a few days after being stabbed in his behind while on the toilet by a person in the employ of Matilda, his wife, or Dirk V or Dirk's stepfather[3]). William of Utrecht died two months later, on 17 April 1076. William's successor, Bishop Conrad of Utrecht, when besieged in the castle of Ysselmonde by Dirk V and the army raised with the assistance of his stepfather Robert, purchased his liberty by surrendering all claim to Dirk's disputed lands.[2]
Dirk married before 26 July 1083 with Othelhildis (Othelhilda[4]) Countess of Holland, born about 1054 at Vlaardingen, died 18 November ?, and they had children:[2]
Floris II "the Fat" Count of Holland born about 1085, Dordrecht, died 2 March 1121;
Mathilde[1], Countess of Holland born about 1087, Dordrecht;
Dirk V died 17 June 1091 and was succeeded by his son, Floris II "the Fat" Count of Holland born about 1085, Dordrecht, died 2 March 1121.[2]
Dirk V was buried at Egmond.[1] The Benedictine St. Adelbert Abbey, also known as the Abbey of Egmond, was in Egmond-Binnen,[5] a village now in the Dutch province of North Holland.
Sources
↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Charles Cawley, "HOLLAND & FRISIA: Chapter 2. COUNTS OF HOLLAND [900]-1299", Medieval Lands, Foundation for Medieval Genealogy, March 2015, http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/HOLLAND.htm#FlorisIdied1061, accessed 22 August 2015.
↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 L C Geerts, "The history of Holland and the story of its ancient Capital and Residence Dordrecht Part 1 From the year 993 to 1222", Holland history pages, http://geerts.com/index.php/dordrecht/history-of-dordrecht-1, accessed 22 August 2015.
↑ Dr. Kees C. Nieuwenhuijsen, "The Assassination of Godfrey the Hunchback", kees.nieuwenhuijsen, http://www.keesn.nl/murder/text_en.htm, accessed 22 August 2015.
↑ Dr. Kees C. Nieuwenhuijsen, "Dutch Medieval Sources: Egmonds charter, AD 1083: Personal names", kees.nieuwenhuijsen, http://www.keesn.nl/sources/en_start.htm, accessed 22 August 2015.
↑ Abbey of Egmond, http://www.abdijvanegmond.nl/abdij-van-egmond/, accessed 22 August 2015.
[1] - gives date of birth as 1052.
See also:
Wikipedia:Dirk V, Count of Holland accessed 22 August 2015. This Wikipedia article cites no sources and has a broken external link to The history of the Lowlands. See the archived webpage of The history of the Lowlands Part 2, accessed 22 August 2015. The new version of this webpage is the source used for the inline citations in this profile. The sources used by this website are listed at http://geerts.com/index.php/home/sources.
http://www.genealogieonline.nl/Stamboom Kok, Jagt, Bottinga, Maarhuisen, Kuipe, [dead link on 22 August 2015].
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| Person ID |
I59397 |
Freeman-Smith |
| Last Modified |
27 Jan 2026 |
| Father |
FLANDRE Robert, b. Abt 1033, Flanders, Belgium d. 13 Oct 1093, Flanders, Belgium (Age 60 years) |
| Relationship |
Stepchild |
| Mother |
BILLUNG Gertrude, b. Abt 1030, Schweinfurt, Unterfranken, Bavaria d. 03 Aug 1113, Vlaardingen, Vlaardingen, Zuid-Holland (Age 83 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Marriage |
1063 |
| Family ID |
F26474 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Father |
HOLLAND Floris, b. Abt 1016, Vlaardingen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland d. 22 Jun 1061, Nederhemert, Gelderland, Nederland (Age 45 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Mother |
BILLUNG Gertrude, b. Abt 1030, Schweinfurt, Unterfranken, Bavaria d. 03 Aug 1113, Vlaardingen, Vlaardingen, Zuid-Holland (Age 83 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Marriage |
1049 |
| Family ID |
F26091 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
UNKNOWN Othilde, b. Abt 1054, Vlaardingen, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands d. 28 Jul 1083, Egmond, Bergen, Netherlands (Age 29 years) |
| Children |
| | 1. HOLLAND Floris, b. 26 Jul 1080, Vlaardingen, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands d. 02 Mar 1121, Egmond, Noord-Holland, Netherlands (Age 40 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
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| Family ID |
F26381 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
27 Jan 2026 |
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