John I, Count of Holland

[4] On 7 January 1297, John married Edward's daughter Elizabeth at St Peter's Church, Ipswich.

[5] Soon after this, he was allowed to return to Holland, although being made to promise to heed the council of Renesse and Borselen.

[6] After some delay and spending Christmas 1297 with part of her family in Ghent, Elizabeth did join her husband in Holland in 1298.

As regent, Wolfert van Borselen, pursued a policy of neutrality towards Flanders and England.

Three years after John's death, his young widow remarried to Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford.

Penny or 'kopje' with portrait of John I