John I Count of Holland & Zeeland ¹⁶⁸⁸

  General Notes:

John I was count of Holland and son of Count Floris V. John inherited the county in 1296 after the murder of his father. In the following year, he married princess Elizabeth of England, a daughter of Edward Longshanks, but died soon afterwards in 1299, only fifteen years-old.

With his death without descendents, the heirs to the county of Holland were his cousins of Hainaut, sons of John's great-aunt Adelaide of Holland. Between this date to the extinction of Hainaut as an independent county, Holland formed a personal union with Hainaut. ¹⁶⁸⁸

John married Lady Elizabeth Princess of England on 18 Jan 1297 in Ipswich, Suffolk, England.¹⁶⁸⁸ (Lady Elizabeth Princess of England was born in Aug 1282 in Rhuddlan, Denbighshire, Wales,¹⁶⁸⁸ died on 5 May 1316 in Quendon, Essex, England ¹⁶⁸⁸ and was buried in Walden Abbey, Essex, England ¹⁶⁸⁸.). The cause of her death was Childbirth.

  Marriage Notes:

Ipswich Priory Church ¹⁶⁸⁸