John I Count of Holland

Male 1284 - 1299  (15 years)


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  • Name John I Count of Holland 
    Born 1284 
    Gender Male 
    Died 10 Nov 1299  Haarlem, North Holland, Netherland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I692  King of Scots
    Last Modified 13 Feb 2009 

    Family Elizabeth Rhuddlen (Countes of Herford),   b. 07 Aug 1282, Rhuddlen Castle Rhuddlen, Denbighshire, Wales Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 05 May 1316, Quendon, Essex County, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 33 years) 
    Married 08 Jan 1297  Ipswich, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 13 Feb 2009 
    Family ID F285  Group Sheet

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  • Notes 
    • John I (1284-Nov 10, 1299, Haarlem) was Count of Holland and son of Count Floris V. John inherited the county in 1296 after the murder of his father.

      Shortly after his birth, after negotiations between Floris and King Edward I of England in April 1285, he was betrothed to princess Elizabeth of England, a daughter of Edward and his first Queen consort Eleanor of Castile. Soon after this the infant John was sent to England to be raised and educated there at Edward's court. In 1296, after the murder of John's father Count Floris V, King Edward invited a number of nobles from Holland with English sympathies, amongst whom were John III, Lord of Renesse and Wolfert I van Borselen. On Jan 7, 1297 John married Edward's daughter Elizabeth at Ipswich. Soon after this, he was allowed to return to Holland, although being made to promise to heed the council of Renesse and Borselen. Elizabeth was expected to go to Holland with her husband, but did not wish to go, leaving her husband to go alone. After some delay and spending Christmas 1297 with part of her family in Ghent, Elizabeth did join her husband in Holland in 1298.

      At first Renesse acted as regent, but on 30 April 1297, John had appointed Wolfert van Borselen regent in his stead, until his fifteenth birthday. As regent, Wolfert van Borselen, pursued a policy of neutrality towards Flanders and England. He came into conflict with the city of Dordrecht and was killed there by a mob on 30 August 1299. After this Count John II of the house of Avesnes took over the regency, for a few months. Count John I of Holland died at Haarlem in the same year, on 10 November, childless and only fifteen years old, reportedly of dysentery, but there were suspicions he was murdered.

      With his death without descendants, and all his siblings having died young, the heirs to the county of Holland were his cousins of Hainaut, sons of John's great-aunt Adelaide of Holland. From this time to the extinction of Hainaut as an independent county, Holland was in personal union with Hainaut.

      Three years after John's death, his young widow remarried to Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford.

      External links and sources
      Jan I, graaf van Holland (Dutch)
      Count Holland and Frisia, Chapter 2. COUNTS OF HOLLAND (900)-1299

      See also
      Counts of Hainaut family tree
      Counts of Holland family tree
    • Reign Count of Holland: 1296?1299
      Born 1284
      Died November 10, 1299
      Place of death Haarlem
      Predecessor Floris V
      Successor John II
      Consort Elizabeth of England
      Offspring childless
      Father Floris V
      Mother Beatrice of Flanders


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