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Adelaide Of Cleves
Adelaide of Cleves (died 1238), also known as Aleid and Adelheid was, by her marriage to Dirk VII, Countess of Holland. She played an important role in the administration during the reign of her husband, during which she served as regent in 1195, and facilitated the marriage and accession of their daughter Ada amid dynastic disputes in 1203. Life Origins Adelaide was the daughter of Dietrich II, Count of Cleves (died 1172) and Adelaide (Adelheid) of Sulzbach (died 1189). Nothing is known about her childhood and upbringing. She had two brothers: Dietrich III/ IV (died before 1202) and Arnold (died 1200), and a sister, Margaret (Margaretha) (died about 1184). Adelaide's father is called a wealthy man in the Egmond Annals. The counts of Cleves were on good terms with the counts of Holland, who, like them, had an interest in limiting the power of the counts of Guelders, although intermarriages regularly took place between all these regions. The good relationship between H ...
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Countess Of Holland
Countess of Holland House of Holland, 875–1299 House of Avesnes, 1299–1354 House of Wittelsbach, 1354–1432 House of Valois-Burgundy, 1432–1482 House of Habsburg, 1482–1581 Titular Countess of Holland House of Habsburg, 1581–1648 {, width=95% class="wikitable" !width = "8%" , Picture !width = "10%" , Name !width = "9%" , Father !width = "10%" , Birth !width = "8%" , Marriage !width = "8%" , Became Countess !width = "10%" , Ceased to be Countess !width = "10%" , Death !width = "7%" , Spouse , - , align="center", , align="center", Margaret of Austria , align="center", Charles II of Austria(Habsburg) , align="center", 25 December 1584 , align="center" colspan="2", 18 April 1599 , align="center" colspan="2", 3 October 1611 , align="center", Philip III of Spain , - , align="center", , align="center", Elisabeth of Bourbon , align="center", Henry IV of France(Bourbon) , align="center", 22 November 1602 , align="cen ...
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Aleid Overwint De West-Friesen, 1195 Vrouw Aleid Overwint De West-Friezen (titel Op Object), RP-P-OB-78
Aleida is a female given name. It, like the Dutch name Alida and their variations – ''Aleid'', ''Aleide'', ''Aleidis'', ''Aleijd'', ''Aleyda'', etc. – is derived from the Germanic ''Adelheid'' ('noble person'). The medieval names are often translated to ''Adelayde'' or ''Alice'' in English. Aleida and its variations may refer to: People Medieval *Adelaide of Cleves (c.1170–c.1238), also called Aleid, Countess of Holland, wife of Dirk VII * Aleidis of Leuven (c. 1103 –1151), Brabantian Queen consort of England, wife of Henry I *Aleid van Holland, or Aleida van Avesnes (1228–1284), Dutch regent of Holland *Aleid van Poelgeest (c.1370–1392), Dutch murdered mistress of the Count of Holland * Aleydis van Schaarbeek (1204–1250), Brabantian laysister and mystic Modern * Aleida Assmann (born 1937), German academic *Aleida Greve (1670 – 1742), Dutch painter * Aleida Guevara (born 1960), Cuban physician and Marxist, Che Guevara's daughter *Aleida Leurink (1682-1755), Dutch ...
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Countesses Of Holland
Countess of Holland House of Holland, 875–1299 House of Avesnes, 1299–1354 House of Wittelsbach, 1354–1432 House of Valois-Burgundy, 1432–1482 House of Habsburg, 1482–1581 Titular Countess of Holland House of Habsburg, 1581–1648 {, width=95% class="wikitable" !width = "8%" , Picture !width = "10%" , Name !width = "9%" , Father !width = "10%" , Birth !width = "8%" , Marriage !width = "8%" , Became Countess !width = "10%" , Ceased to be Countess !width = "10%" , Death !width = "7%" , Spouse , - , align="center", , align="center", Margaret of Austria , align="center", Charles II of Austria( Habsburg) , align="center", 25 December 1584 , align="center" colspan="2", 18 April 1599 , align="center" colspan="2", 3 October 1611 , align="center", Philip III of Spain , - , align="center", , align="center", Elisabeth of Bourbon , align="center", Henry IV of France(Bourbon) , align="center", 22 November 1602 , align="cente ...
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1238 Deaths
1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of ''unit length'' is a line segment of length 1. In conventions of sign where zero is considered neither positive nor negative, 1 is the first and smallest positive integer. It is also sometimes considered the first of the infinite sequence of natural numbers, followed by  2, although by other definitions 1 is the second natural number, following  0. The fundamental mathematical property of 1 is to be a multiplicative identity, meaning that any number multiplied by 1 equals the same number. Most if not all properties of 1 can be deduced from this. In advanced mathematics, a multiplicative identity is often denoted 1, even if it is not a number. 1 is by convention not considered a prime number; this was not universally accepted until the mid-20th century. Additionally, 1 is the ...
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Blason DE Clèves
Blason is a form of poetry. The term originally comes from the heraldic term " blazon" in French heraldry, which means either the codified description of a coat of arms or the coat of arms itself. The Dutch term is Blazoen, and in either Dutch or French, the term is often used to refer to the coat of arms of a chamber of rhetoric. History The term forms the root of the modern words "emblazon", which means to celebrate or adorn with heraldic markings, and "blazoner", one who emblazons. The terms "blason", "blasonner", "blasonneur" were used in 16th-century French literature by poets who, following Clément Marot in 1536, practised a genre of poems that praised a woman by singling out different parts of her body and finding appropriate metaphors to compare them with. It is still being used with that meaning in literature and especially in poetry. One famous example of such a celebratory poem, ironically rejecting each proposed stock metaphor, is William Shakespeare's Sonne ...
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Loon War
The Loon War (Dutch: ''Loonse Oorlog'') was a war of succession over the County of Holland (and its dependency Zeeland) from 1203 until 1206, brought on by the death of count Dirk VII. The war was waged between Dirk's brother William of Frisia, and Dirk's daughter Ada who had quickly married count Louis II of Loon. Course Succession crisis Count Dirk VII of Holland died on 4 November 1203, having fathered only daughters, with only Ada surviving him. On his deathbed, he declared that he wanted to discuss his succession with his brother, William of Frisia. However, his wife, countess Adelaide of Cleves, who had already fought a battle near Alkmaar against the rebellious William in 1195, wanted Ada to receive the inheritance instead. Because Holland and Zeeland were so-called "sword fiefs" and not "spindle fiefs", Ada, as a woman, had no right to inherit the counties, but Adelaide tried to accomplish this anyway by quickly finding a husband for Ada. Even before her father w ...
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Rijnsburg
Rijnsburg () is a village in the eastern part of the municipality of Katwijk, in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. The name means Rhine's Burg in Dutch. History The history starts way before the 2th century when there was a castle called " castle on the rhine". The king who ruled was called William 1 Count of Holland. But he was also the king over Germany. His grandson was called Floris VI and was also count of Holland. And, like his grandfather Willem 1, he also ruled over the United States. The people of the United States loved the king Floris VI. Because he always had new ideas for the people. This saved the people a lot of money. Rijnsburg used to be a separated municipality until 1 January 2006, when, together with Valkenburg, it was added to the municipality of Katwijk. Before that, the municipality covered an area of of which was water, and had a population of 14851 inhabitants (1 June 2005). Rijnsburg's main claim to fame is that the philosop ...
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John Lackland
John (24 December 1166 – 19 October 1216) was King of England from 1199 until his death in 1216. He lost the Duchy of Normandy and most of his other French lands to King Philip II of France, resulting in the collapse of the Angevin Empire and contributing to the subsequent growth in power of the French Capetian dynasty during the 13th century. The baronial revolt at the end of John's reign led to the sealing of , a document considered an early step in the evolution of the constitution of the United Kingdom. John was the youngest of the four surviving sons of King Henry II of England and Duchess Eleanor of Aquitaine. He was nicknamed John Lackland because he was not expected to inherit significant lands. He became Henry's favourite child following the failed revolt of 1173–1174 by his brothers Henry the Young King, Richard, and Geoffrey against the King. John was appointed Lord of Ireland in 1177 and given lands in England and on the continent. He unsuccessfully atte ...
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Leiden
Leiden (; in English and archaic Dutch also Leyden) is a city and municipality in the province of South Holland, Netherlands. The municipality of Leiden has a population of 119,713, but the city forms one densely connected agglomeration with its suburbs Oegstgeest, Leiderdorp, Voorschoten and Zoeterwoude with 206,647 inhabitants. The Netherlands Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) further includes Katwijk in the agglomeration which makes the total population of the Leiden urban agglomeration 270,879, and in the larger Leiden urban area also Teylingen, Noordwijk, and Noordwijkerhout are included with in total 348,868 inhabitants. Leiden is located on the Oude Rijn, at a distance of some from The Hague to its south and some from Amsterdam to its north. The recreational area of the Kaag Lakes ( Kagerplassen) lies just to the northeast of Leiden. A university city since 1575, Leiden has been one of Europe's most prominent scientific centres for more than four centuri ...
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Louis II, Count Of Loon
Louis II was count of Loon between the end of the 12th century to 1218. He was the son of Gerard, Count of Looz, and Adelaide of Gelderland, daughter of Henry I, Count of Guelders, and Agnes of Arnstein, daughter of Louis III of Arnstein. He also claimed to be the legitimate Count of Holland during the Loon War (1203–1206). He waged war against duke Henry I of Brabant for the county of Moha and the rights on Maastricht and Sint-Truiden. He had the rights of both cities, because he was regent of Duras. This culminated in the decisive Battle of Steppes in 1213 in which Louis prevailed. Louis married Ada, Countess of Holland in 1203 after her father died and she inherited Holland. She waged war against her uncle William I of Holland, to defend her inheritance of Holland. Despite her marriage to Louis for extra protection, she was taken prisoner in Leiden and brought first to Texel and then to England. Louis sought support from Hugo de Pierrepont, bishop of Liège, w ...
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Egmond Castle
Egmond Castle ( nl, Kasteel Egmond), also called the ''Ruins of Egmond'' ( nl, Ruïne van Egmond), is a ruined medieval castle in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is located in Egmond aan den Hoef in the municipality of Bergen and lies about west of Alkmaar. The castle dates from the 11th century and is the ancestral seat of the Egmond family, whose members became sovereign Dukes of Guelders, Counts of Egmond and Princes of Gavere, Counts of Buren and Leerdam. It is a national monument of the Netherlands. History Origins The origins of Egmond Castle is closely connected to Egmond Abbey, which was founded by the counts of Holland in Egmond-Binnen. When the Abbey lands became too large, the abbot decided to appoint a certain Berwout as steward of these estates in 1129. Berwout and his descendants lived in a (fortified) farm or manor ("Hoeve") north of the abbey. As Berwout and his descendants took part in the crusades, they were rewarded with the hereditary lordship ov ...
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Zeeland
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