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unusual facts about Floris III, Count of Holland



Floris III, Count of Holland

# Ada of Holland (died after 1205), married 1176 Margrave Otto I of Brandenburg.

There was a dispute between Floris and the bishop of Utrecht about a new dam in the Rhine at Zwammerdam in 1165, which had to be settled by emperor Frederick.

The emperor gave Floris the toll right of Geervliet, the most important toll station in Holland at that time.

Schönhausen Palace

In 1662 Countess Sophie Theodore, a scion of the Holland-Brederode family and wife of the Brandenburg general Christian Albert of Dohna, acquired the lands Niederschönhausen and Pankow, then far north of the Berlin city gates.


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