biography
pronunciation:
[ahda]
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| female
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| lived:
| (1158–c.1223)
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| biography:
| Countess of Holland, the only daughter of Dirk VII of Holland and Zeeland. She married Louis II, Count of Loon, hoping he would support her claim to Holland against her uncle, the future Count William I. The quarrel was absorbed into the European dispute between the Guelphs/England and the Hohenstaufens (Ghibellines)/France. During hostilities she was captured and taken prisoner to England. Louis arranged her freedom and William acknowledged her claims, but did nothing to give up the county. She died childless. |
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