Count Jan HOLLAND, I

   Other names for Jan were John and HOLLAND Count.

   Ancestral File Number: 8WH7-6N.

   General Notes:

Count of HOLLAND.

BOOKS
Kings and Queens of Great Britain, Genealogical Chart, Anne Taute andRomilly Squire, 1990: "John Count of Holland, Died 1299.

The Political History of England, Vol II, George Burton Adams Longmans Green and Co, 1905, Ch XXI, p431:
[1214] "It was about July first that Louis set out to raise the siege of La Roche-au-Moine, andon the 27th the decisive battle of Bouvines was fought in the north before John had resolved on his next move. The coalition, on which John had laboured so long and from which he hoped so much, was at last in the field. The emperor Otto IV, the Counts of Flanders, Bologne, Holland, Brabant, and Limburg, the Duke of Lorraine, and others, each from motives of his own, had joined their forces with the English under the Earl of Salisbury, to overthrow the king of France..."

A History of the Plantagenets, Vol III, The Three Edwards, Thomas B Costain, 1958, Doubleday & Co
p45: "Of the two remaining royal princesses, Elizabeth, Edward's youngest daughter, married John, Count of Holland, a happy if uneventful union..."

ThePolitical History of England 1216-1377, Vol III, T F Tout, AMS Press, 1905,
p191: "...[1295] Edward failed even more signally in his efforts to defeat Philip by diplomacy. He had left no effort unspared to build up a great coalition against the French king. He `sent a great quantity of sterling money beyond the sea,' and made alliances with all the princes and barons that he could find. At first it seemed that he had succeeded. Adolf of Nassau, the poor and dull, but strenuousand hard-fighting King of the Romans, concluded a treaty with England, and did not think it beneath the dignity of the lord of the world to take the pay of the English monarch. Many vassals of the empire, especially in the Netherlands, the Rhineland, and Burgundy followed Adolf's example Edward strengthened his party further by marrying three of his daughters to the Duke of Brabant, the son of the Count of Holland, and the Count of Bar as the price of their adherence to the coalition..."
p223: "...The heavy hand of Edward fell upon earls...the extinction of several important baronial houses made this the easier...The Earl of Hereford died in 1299, and in 1302 his son and successor, another Humphrey Bohun, was bribed by a marriage with the king's daughter Elizabeth, the widowed Countess of Holland, to surrender his lands to the crown and receive them back, like the Earl of Gloucester in 1290, entailed on the issue of himself and his consort..."

ANCESTRAL FILE
Ancestral File 8WH7-6N Mar 18 Jan 1296/1297 vs 14 Nov 1302 Elizabeth Plantagenet ENGLAND Princess, 8WH7-6N Jan, TTE John Count of HOLLAND, Ancestral File Ver 4.10 7Z11-RF Jan I Count of HOLLAND Mar 14Nov 1302, KQGB John Count of HOLLAND.

   Marriage Information:

Jan married Princess Elizabeth Plantagenet ENGLAND, daughter of King Edward ENGLAND, I and Queen Eleanor Castile ENGLAND, on 8 Jan 1296-1297. (Princess Elizabeth Plantagenet ENGLAND was born on 7 Aug 1282 in Castle, Rhuddlan, Deheubarth, Flintshire, Wales, died on 5 May 1316 in Quendon, Essex, England and was buried on 23 May 1316 in Abbey, Walden, Hertfordshire, England.)