Dirk II, Count of Holland

In 983 Emperor Otto III confirmed Dirk's rights within the Duchy of Lower Lorraine to properties and territories in the counties of Maasland, Kinhem (Kennemerland) and Texla (Texel), thus stretching along the entire Hollandic coast, as well as inland.

Count Dirk II built a fortress near Vlaardingen, which was later the site of the Battle of Vlaardingen between his grandson Dirk III and an Imperial army under Godfrey II, Duke of Lower Lorraine.

Starting in 950, Dirk II rebuilt Egmond Abbey and its wooden church in stone, in order to house the relics of Saint Adalbert.

The abbey was given to a community of Benedictine monks from Ghent, who replaced the nuns originally housed there, probably in the 970s.

Dirk married Hildegarde who is thought to be a daughter of Count Arnulf of Flanders.