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WILLIAM (1227-1256)

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 671 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: WAT-WIL
WILLIAM (1227-1256) , king of the Romans and count of Holland, was the son of Count Floris IV. and his wife Matilda, daughter of
Henry
 , duke of Brabant. He was about six years of age when his father was killed in a tournament, and the fact that his long minority was peaceful and uneventful speaks well for the good government of his two paternal uncles, who were his guardians. William was, however, suddenly in 12Y7 to become a prominent figure in the
great
 
Guelph
 -Ghibelline struggle, which at that time was disturbing the peace of Europe. The quarrel between the church and the emperor Frederick II. had now reached an acute stage.
Pope
  Innocent IV., who had failed in repeated efforts to induce various princes to accept the dignity of king of the Romans in place of the excommunicated Frederick, found the youthful William of Holland ready to accept the proffered crown. After a long siege William succeeded in taking the imperial city of Aix-la-Chapelle, where he was crowned on All Saints' Day 1248. As the recognized head of the
Guelph
  party he spared no efforts to win for himself friends
in Germany, but he never really succeeded in forming a party or gaining for himself a footing in the Empire during the lifetime of Frederick. With the extinction of the Hohenstaufen
house
  in 1254 his chances were much improved, but shortly afterwards his death occurred on the 28th of January 1256 through his horse breaking through the ice during an obscure campaign among the Frisian marshes. William was more successful in his struggles with Margaret, countess of Flanders and Hainaut, known as " Black Meg." She wished her succession to pass to the sons of her second
marriage
  with William of Dampierre in preference to those of his first
marriage
  with Bouchard of Avennes. But John of Avennes, her eldest son, had married William's sister Aleidis. William took up arms in defence of his brother-in-law's rights and Margaret was decisively beaten at West Kappel in 1253, and was compelled to acknowledge John of Avennes as her successor to the county of Hainaut.
See A. Ulrich, Geschichte des romischen Konigs, Wilhelm von Holland (Hanover, 1882).


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