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Ada was the only surviving daughter of Count Dirk VII of Holland and his wife Adelaide of Cleves. [2] She succeeded her father but immediately had to deal with her uncle William, who claimed Holland for his own. Ada married Count Louis II of Loon to strengthen her position. She was in such a hurry, that she married even before her father was ...
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Ada was Countess regnant of Holland between 1203 and 1207, ruling jointly with her husband, Louis II of Loon. She was deposed and exiled by her paternal uncle, William I. Introduction Ada, Countess of Holland
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Ada of Holland (died 1258) Ada of Holland (1208 – 15 June 1258) was a Dutch abbess of Rijnsburg Abbey from 1239. Ada was born in about 1208 to Willem I, Count of Holland (ca. 1168-1222) and Aleid van Gelre (ca. 1178-1218). She first appears in written records in 1233 and in 1239 she moves from being a nun to being the abbess of Rijnsburg Abbey.
Read more on Wikipedia. Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ada, Countess of Holland has received more than 36,639 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Ada, Countess of Holland is the 11,527th most popular politician (down from 9,216th in 2019).
Countess of Holland, in the beginning of the thirteenth century.At the death of her father, Diederyk, or Theodora the Seventh, which took place in 1203, she was in the sixteenth year of her age, and it being a question whether Holland, then a fief of the Empire, would be given to a young unmarried female, her ambitious mother married her immediately on the death of Diederyk, to Count Louis van ...