biography
| biography:
| Count of Holland (from 953), the son of Dirk I. He married Hildegarde, daughter of Count Arnulf of Flanders, and after her death became Count of Ghent (from 965) and parts of Flanders. He gained the Land of Waas from Lothair of France. Otto III favoured him, enabling him to gain control of Maastricht, Kennemerland, and Texel. |
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