John I, Count of Holland

Infobox Monarch|name=John I of Holland
title=Count of Holland


caption=John I as imagined in the 16th century
reign=Count of Holland: 1296–1299
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predecessor=Floris V
successor=John II
consort=Elizabeth of England
issue=childless
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father=Floris V
mother=Beatrice of Flanders
date of birth=1284
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place of death=Haarlem
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. 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.

Ancestors

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1= John, Count of Holland
2= Floris V, Count of Holland
3= Beatrice of Flanders
4= William II, Count of Holland and King of Germany
5= Elisabeth of Brunswick-Lüneburg
6= Guy, Count of Flanders
7= Mathilde of Béthune
8= Floris IV, Count of Holland
9= Mathilde of Brabant
10= Otto I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
11= Mathilde of Brandenburg
12= William II, Lord of Dampierre
13= Margaret II, Countess of Flanders
14= Robert VII, Lord of Béthune
15= Elisabeth of Morialmes
16= William I, Count of Holland
17= Adelheid of Gelre
18= Henry I, Duke of Brabant
19= Mathilde of Boulogne
20= William of Winchester, Lord of Lüneburg
21= Helena of Denmark
22= Albert II, Margrave of Brandenburg
23= Mathilde of Landsberg (Wettin)
24= Guy II, Lord of Dampierre
25= Mathilde of Bourbon
26= Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders, Emperor of Constantinople
27= Marie of Champagne
28= William II, Lord of Béthune
29= Mathilde of Dendermonde
30= Arnold, Lord of Morialmes
31= Jeanne of Bailleul

External links and sources

* [http://home.scarlet.be/~ijpelaan/Graven/Jan-I.html Jan I, graaf van Holland] (Dutch)
* [http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/HOLLAND.htm Count Holland and Frisia, Chapter 2. COUNTS OF HOLLAND (900)-1299]

ee also

*Counts of Hainaut family tree
*Counts of Holland family tree