Editing History of the Netherlands (section)

===The rise of Holland===
[[File:Rochussen Egmond.jpg|thumb|left|[[Dirk VI, Count of Holland]], 1114–1157, and his mother Petronella visiting the work on the [[Egmond Abbey]], Charles Rochussen, 1881. The sculpture is the [[commons:File:Egmond tympanum.jpg|Egmond Tympanum]], depicting the two visitors on either side of Saint Peter.]]
[[File:The Saint Elizabeth’s Day Flood by Master of the St Elizabeth Panels c1490-1495.jpg|thumb|Two wings of an altar piece, {{circa|1500}}, depicting the [[St. Elizabeth's flood (1421)|St Elizabeth Flood]] of 18–19 November 1421, with Dordrecht at the front left]]

The center of power in these emerging independent territories was in the [[County of Holland]]. Originally granted as a fief to the Danish chieftain [[Rorik of Dorestad|Rorik]] in return for loyalty to the emperor in 862, the region of [[Kennemerland|Kennemara]] (the region around modern [[Haarlem]]) rapidly grew under Rorik's descendants in size and importance. By the early 11th century, [[Dirk III, Count of Holland]] was levying tolls on the Meuse estuary and was able to resist military intervention from his overlord, the Duke of Lower Lorraine.

In 1083, the name "Holland" first appears in a deed referring to a region corresponding more or less to the current province of South Holland and the southern half of what is now North Holland. Holland's influence continued to grow over the next two centuries. The [[counts of Holland]] conquered most of [[Zeeland]] but it was not until 1289 that Count [[Floris V]] was able to subjugate the Frisians in West Friesland (that is, the northern half of North Holland).