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| | History of Holland | Learn Dutch |
 | | Of his successors the most illustrious was William II (1234 to 1256) who was crowned King of the Romans at Aachen, and would have received from Pope Innocent IV the imperial crown at Rome, had he not been unfortunately drowned while attempting to cross on horseback an ice-bound marsh. |
 | | It was contested by her second son William, who, after a long drawn-out strife with his mother, became, in 1354, Count of Holland and Zeeland with the title William V, Margaret retaining the county of Hainault. |
 | | The marriages of Albert’s son, William, with Margaret the sister of John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy, and of John the Fearless with Albert’s daughter, Margaret, were to have momentous consequences. |
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