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Original fileThis print shows a stylized historical figure from a 16th-century book on the genealogy of the Counts of Holland. The figure is clad in ornate Renaissance-era plate armor with a plumed helmet and a heavy fur-lined cloak, holding a massive sword over his shoulder. The adjacent page contains a biography in Dutch Gothic script detailing his lineage and military conflicts.
While primarily a dynastic history, this work was designed by Hendrick Goltzius, the central figure of the Haarlem Mannerists. This circle of artists and thinkers was deeply engaged with Neoplatonic philosophy and the professionalization of the engraving craft as a medium for complex intellectual and esoteric ideas.
t’iaer 1048 De vi. Graef reg. 14 iare Floris de eerste van die na- me was de zone van Graef Dirck de derde / ende een Broeder van Graef Dirck de vierde hy hadde te Wijff Gheertruydt Hertogh Heymans van Sas- sen dochter daer hy by wan Dirck die na de- hem Grave werdt/ Albert/ Floris/ Peter/ welke alle 3 Canonicken waeren inden domkercke tot Luydick / ende een schoon Jonckfrouwe gheheten Machtelt dien ko- ningh Philips van Vranckrijck de eerste van dien name troude. De Bisschoppen van Kuelen ende Lup- dick de Graef van Brandenbergh/ende an- dere zommighe zulcke Graven/ ende in een verplichte Prince/ die Hollandt inde graeu- we grondt pooghden te verderven. Heeft hp int Jaer dupzent acht ende vijftigh op sinte Odulphus dagh (hebbende den we daer zp neerquamen/ hepmelicken bp nacht opghedoluen ende met stro overdeckt) met groote cloeckhepdt van zijnder ondersaten hals manlicken gheweert. Vier iaren [Right margin notes:] t S. vade tot Dort- recht. Heyman Keyser Henricus de IIII. In dese strijt zijn over de- zee ende tsestigh duyzen- menschen ghesla- ghen inde ver- decte put ten ver- droncken
Translation
AD 1048 In the 6th year of his reign, 14 years Floris the first of that name was the son of Count Dirk the third / and a brother of Count Dirk the fourth. He had for a wife Gertrude, the daughter of Duke Herman of Sax- ony, by whom he fathered Dirk, who after him became Count / Albert / Floris / Peter / who all 3 were Canons in the cathedral church at Liège / and a beautiful young lady named Machteld, whom King Philip of France, the first of that name, married. The Bishops of Cologne and Li- ège, the Count of Brandenburg / and some other such Counts / and a compelled Prince / who tried to destroy Hol- land down to the grey earth. He in the year one thousand forty- eight on Saint Odulph's day (having dug the way where they came down, secretly by night and covered it with straw) with great bravery of his subjects manfully resisted them. Four years [Right margin notes:] The St. Bavos at Dort- recht. Herman Emperor Henry the IV. In this battle were over sixty- six thou- sand people slain and in the covered pits drowned
Carel van Mander
Van Mander was a close associate of Goltzius in the Haarlem Academy and recorded the history of these engravings in his Schilder-boeck.
Object
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
copper (metal)
diameter 2.7 cm x weight 4.36 g
portrait
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