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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26549	The present state of the United Provinces of the Low-Countries as to the government, laws, forces, riches, manners, customes, revenue, and territory of the Dutch in three books / collected by W.A., Fellow of the Royal Society.	Aglionby, William, d. 1705.	1669 (1669)	Wing A766; ESTC R21416	140,978	444

the Romans the title of companions seeming not kind enough since the Countrey was over-run by the Danes and Normans who were long masters of it but in the time of Pepin King of France they recover'd their liberties CHAP. II. Therry of Aquitain the First Earl THe most receiv'd opinion of the learned Antiquaries is That Thyerry or Childeric Duke of Aquitain was made Earl of Holland by Charles the ball'd Emperour and King of France He took possession of it in the year 863 and tam'd the fury of the Frizelanders his Subjects growing weary of the long peace which he did politickly keep with all his neighbours conspir'd against him and drive him out of Holland but by the assistance of the Emperour's Forces he subdued them and punished the authors of the rebellion His Wife was Jane daughter to King Pepin of Italy Having reigned forty years in Holland he dyed peaceably leaving his State to his Son Thyerry the Second Succeeding his Father married Hulgard Daughter to Lewis King of France He overcame the Frizelanders in two pitch'd Battels and re-built the Monastery of Egmont which they had burn'd He died after he had governed eighty eight years and lyes buried at Egmont Arnulph or Arnout the Third This Earl maintain'd a long War against the Frizelanders in which he was at last kil●'d and buried at Egmont having reign'd five years Thyerry the Fourth Thyerry the third was preferr'd to the dignity of Earl of Holland before his elder Brother and married the Daughter of the Emperour Otho In his time there appeared a Comet which seem'd to prognostick the War that happen'd with the Bishop of Utrect after the loss of much Nob●lity the said Bishop was taken and kept prisoner for a long time because he did obstinately refuse all conditions of peace This Duke to revenge his Fathers death over-ran and ruin'd most of East-Frizeland and at last gave it to Florent his younger Son After this he undertook a pilgrimage to Jerusalem and died coming back Thyerry the Fifth Thyerry the fourth of this name and Earl of Holland being gone to Leege to a publick Turnament and having in it kill'd the Bishop of Cullen in revenge thereof was pursued to Dort and there kill'd Florent the Sixth Florent the first of this name succeeded in his Brothers place who died without issue he forsook Frizeland to come and govern Holland he had W●r with the Archbishop of Cullen the Bishop of Leege and the Earl of Louvain whom he defeated luckily by a stratagem invented by an old man who advis'd him to cause deep Ditches to be made upon his enemies way and to cover them over with straw and hay this design succeeded and his enemies falling in great numbers he charg'd them so smartly and at such an advantage that he obtain'd a great victory the Archbishop nevertheless having rallied his scattered Army came again into Holland and was again defeated A little after the Earl Florent was treacherously kill'd Gertrude of Saxony the Seventh This Princess took the reins of the Government in hand after the death of her Husband and during the minority of her Son She was married a second time to Robert of Frizeland and died having govern'd in great tranquillity She left divers Children by both her Husbands Robert of Frizeland the Eighth This Prince is reckoned amongst the Earls of Holland though he were but Guardian to the young Thyerry he acquitted himself with much integrity and honour of this his employment but he was driven out of his State by Godfrey of Lorrain who by the strength and assistance of the Bishop of Utrect possest himself of his Countrey Godfrey the Ninth Godfrey being in possession of Holland built the Town of Delft subdued the Frizelanders and after a happy Reign was at last treacherously murdered Thyerry the Tenth This Prince the true and lawfull Heir having at last recover'd his own made it his business to clear his Countrey of the Bishop of Utrect's Forces which he did by making peace with him after which he set upon the Frizelanders and having pass'd his Army over the Ice he encountred theirs and kill'd four thousand upon the place nevertheless they rallied and coming up with new Forces challenged the Earl and his Army which he bore so impatiently that immediately charging them with all fury he routed them and in pursuit of his victory spar'd neither man woman nor childe This bloody execution made them promise obedience After which the Earl died in 1091. having reigned fifteen years his W●fe was of the House of Saxony Florent the Fat the Eleventh This Flo●ent govern'd Holland for thirty one years being a very tall corpulent man his inclination was peace and was very charitable He left four Children by his Wife Petronella of Saxony Sister to the Emperour Lotaire He died in the flower of his age and left the administration to his Wife during the minority of his Children All his Subjects had a great respect and veneration for his piety Thyerry the Twelfth Thyerry the sixth of that name was married to Sophia Daughter to Otho Count Palatine by whom he had four Sons and three Daughters He chastized the Friz●landers but they rallying again fell stoutly upon North-Holland and burnt the Town of Alcmaer being in a way to make their anger still more sensible to his State if he had not resolutely opposed them A little after hearing that his Brother-in-law was taken prisoner by them and that his Forces were also defeated by the Bishop of Utrect he immediately led his Army and sate down before the Town with so much resolution that he had undoubtedly taken it had not the Bishop for a last shift put on his Pontificall habit and come out with the rest of his Clergy to excommunicate the Count. Thyerry then fell upon his knees and to avoid the excommunication asked pardon and raised his siege He was at l●st kill'd by the Frizelanders having reign'd forty five years Florent the Thirteenth Florent took place after Thyerry and married with great transport of joy the Daughter of the King of Scotland which Wibold Abbot of Egmond had brought to one of the Sea-Towns He had by her four Sons and four Daughters He chastized the Frizelanders who had once again burnt Alcmaer and died gloriously at Antioch after he had seen the Sarrasins defeated and driven out of the holy Land Thierry the Fourteenth Thierry succeeded and had by his Wife Alide of Cleves two Daughters whereof one was married to Henry of Gueldre and the other to the Earl of Loen He made War in Brabant and took Boisteduc but was at last taken prisoner by the Duke of Lorrain Ada the Fifteenth Ada Countess of Holland and Daughter to Thierry did not govern long for being married to the Earl of Loen whom most of the neighbouring Princes did envy there were many seditions fomented in her State which at last broke out with great effusion of blood William the Sixteenth William the first of the