On a bright and sunny autumn day, I went all the way to the south of the Netherlands. I went to Roermond to the visit the Munster church which has one of the oldest surviving tombs in the Netherlands. This tomb belongs to Margaret of Brabant and her husband Gerard III. Margaret was born between [read more]
Loosduinen Abbey is pretty unknown even in the area, but once upon a time, it was a place where a legend was born. It involved Margaret of Holland, Countess of Henneberg. She was the daughter of Floris IV of Holland and Matilda of Brabant. Not much is known of her youth, but she married Count [read more]
Ada of Huntingdon and Elisabeth of Brunswick-Lüneburg were both Countesses of Holland 60 years apart. Ada of Huntingdon was the wife of Floris III and she lived from 1146 to about 1206. Elisabeth of Brunswick-Lüneburg was the wife of William II and lived from 1235 to 1266. Though Elisabeth is relatively unknown there is an [read more]
Ada of Holland was one of the three surviving daughters of Dirk VII of Holland and his wife Adelaide of Cleves, daughter of Dietrich II, Count of Cleves and Adelaide of Sulzbach. Her father paved the way for her succession by making Holland inheritable by women. At the time of Dirk’s death in 1203, Ada [read more]
Petronilla of Lorraine was born circa 1092 as the daughter of Theodoric II, Duke of Lorraine and Hedwig of Formbach. She was their eldest daughter. She received the customary education for noble women. She was taught embroidery and needlepoint, but she was also taught to read and write. Around 1100 she married the Count of Holland, [read more]
Maria of Brabant was born circa 1226 as the daughter of Henry II, Duke of Brabant en Maria of Hohenstaufen. She was one of six children, and she had a further two half-siblings from her father’s second marriage to Sophie of Thuringia. Little is known of her youth, but she was possibly betrothed to the [read more]
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