Kevin Patrick Mostyn Family - Person Sheet
Kevin Patrick Mostyn Family - Person Sheet
NameDirk I Count Of Holland, 32G Grandfather
FatherGerulf Of Holland (~845->900)
Web Notes notes for Dirk I Count Of Holland
Notes leovdpas@@iinet.net.au (Leo van de Pas) posted to
GEN-MEDIEVAL-L-request@@rootsweb.com on 4 Sep 1998
Subject: Counts of Holland I:
"The area now known as Holland was formerly known as Friesland, or West-Friesland, and its first counts were entitled Count of Friesland. At that time, Friesland covered the area from the mouth of the river Weser (near Germany's Bremen) to nearly inside modern Belgium. Today this area is divided into five provinces : Zeeland, South-Holland, North-Holland, Friesland and Groningen. However, the area ruled over by these counts was only a small section of the total. From when the first known count lived around the year 889, it took until 1100 before his descendants became known as Counts of Holland. Apparently the name Holland was derived from the word 'Holtland', which meant either 'Land with a hollow' or 'wood (hout/holt) land'. In 922, Count Dirk I received (from Charles The Simple, King of the West-Franks, or France) the church in Egmond and its estates which became the centre of his county. In 925, while formally belonging to the Lorraine area, Holland became part of the Holy Roman Empire. However, the Count and his subjects preferred to think themselves independent of any overlord; accordingly they made their own alliances as they saw fit."
GEN-MEDIEVAL-L-request@@rootsweb.com on 4 Sep 1998
Subject: Counts of Holland I:
"The area now known as Holland was formerly known as Friesland, or West-Friesland, and its first counts were entitled Count of Friesland. At that time, Friesland covered the area from the mouth of the river Weser (near Germany's Bremen) to nearly inside modern Belgium. Today this area is divided into five provinces : Zeeland, South-Holland, North-Holland, Friesland and Groningen. However, the area ruled over by these counts was only a small section of the total. From when the first known count lived around the year 889, it took until 1100 before his descendants became known as Counts of Holland. Apparently the name Holland was derived from the word 'Holtland', which meant either 'Land with a hollow' or 'wood (hout/holt) land'. In 922, Count Dirk I received (from Charles The Simple, King of the West-Franks, or France) the church in Egmond and its estates which became the centre of his county. In 925, while formally belonging to the Lorraine area, Holland became part of the Holy Roman Empire. However, the Count and his subjects preferred to think themselves independent of any overlord; accordingly they made their own alliances as they saw fit."