The count's river town where the Merwede, the Maas and the Noord meet, the meeting place of the Rhine trade and the sea, with the count's toll and his favourite residence in the south.
Dirk VII will die here in 1203.
Who holds it
- Name
- Dirk VII
- Title
- Count of Holland
- Since
- 1190
- Confidence
- high
Lord in 1200
Count Dirk VII of Holland; the town court is the count's
How things stand that morning
The count's town.
Charter
None yet: the town charter is of 1220 (Count William I)
Communities
Merchants trading to Cologne and England; not pinned in detail
Walls and castle
No walls yet (walls are of the later thirteenth century); the count's court
Trade and crafts
Rhine wine and stone downstream, wool, cloth and grain from England and Flanders upstream; the count's toll on the rivers
What the year holds
What happened next, if nothing in play changes it. Each event carries what it depends on and what would stop it.
- 4 November 1203Dirk VII dies here and Ada marries Louis of Loon the same day
Where the sources disagree
Evidence: Death place and the 1220 charter are certain; the town of 1200 is reconstructed.
Primary sources for Holland
Chronicles, registers, sagas and inscriptions written in or near 1200 that cover this entry. Each has its own page with editions, translations and where to read it.
- Annals of Egmond (12th century to about 1205). The house annals of Egmond, the counts of Holland's abbey, and the main native source for Holland around 1200. Read online
- Chronicle of the abbots of Wittewierum (Bloemhof), Emo of Wittewierum (from 1219 to 1237, continued by Menko to 1273). The chronicle opens only in 1204 with the founding of Emo's Premonstratensian house in the Groningen Ommelanden, so it has nothing for 1200 itself. Read online
Sources and studies
Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.