Gravin Geertruida VII en graven Robrecht VIII, Godfried IX, Dirk X en Floris XI by Hendrick Goltzius

Five figures are depicted in a horizontal row, dressed in highly stylized armor and aristocratic costumes with elaborate plumes and drapery. Each figure stands above a block of Dutch text and is accompanied by a heraldic shield showing the lion of Holland. The work displays the exaggerated poses and intricate line-work characteristic of the Haarlem Mannerist style.

Geertruyd vij. t'Iaier 1020. Gravinne. reg. 2. Iaier. GEertruyt nae dat Graef Floris haer Man vvas doot, Maer een Iaer alleen fy dees landen regeerde, Van haer kints wegen: twelck foo't haer verdroot, Trouvvde vveder een Man van eftyme groot, Met s'landts Ridderfchaps wel, die fy begheerde, Robrecht de Vries genaemt, by welck fy genereerde Twee Soonen, drie Dochters reyn van feden: Om haer deucht en s'Mans vroomheydt menfe hoochlijck eerde. Nae dat hy acht Iaer t'landt befeten hadt met vreden, Vertrock tot Ghent, en is aldaer overleden. Robrecht viij. t'Iaier 1064. Grave. reg. 7. Iaier. DIt is Robrecht ghenaemt die Vries, een vromer Helt VVelck onder dees Graven oock vverdt gheftelt, Om dat hy over de jongen Graef voocht was ghemaeckt, VVt Rodes en Cypers verdreef dees met ghewelt, De Saraceens om dat fy Chriftum hadden verfaeckt, Nae dees met veel Vorften int heylich lant is gheraeeckt, Daer hy hem toonde als een Prins vroom en wel. Al was hy uyt t'Landt verjaecht, ick feght onghelaeeckt, Verdreef vveder, die den jonghen Graef vvaren rebel: Daer nae hy fterf, en vverdt begraven tot Caffel. Godevart ix. t'Iaier 1071. Grave. reg. 7. Iaier. GOdevart met den bult, fo de Cronijck doet vveten. VVas in Hollandt voor een rechte Graef noyt ghekent, Maer heeft door quaet ingheven en des Biffchops vermeten, Van VVtrecht gheweldich Hollandt beferen, Ende den jonghen Graef verdreven, en fijn landt ghefchent. Die ftadt van Delft ftichte dees en daer omtrent, Een Cafteel daer hy op woonde feer fterc ghebout. t'Antwerpen opt privaet fittende daer hy vvas ghevvent, Graef Floris dienaer hem van onderen flack feer ftout, VVaer af hy tot Maftricht fterf, dit vvel onthout. Diderick x. t'Iaier 1075. Grave. reg. 15. Iaier. ALs Godevart fijn leven aldus hadde ghelaten, Quam den jongen Graef in Hollandt, ten mocht niet baten Den Biffchop, al had hy s'lants frontieren befet: Hy verdreef met hulp fijns voochts en onderfaten Den vyandt uyt fijn erf-landen hier vvel op let, En trouden naer defen va Saxen een Princeffe net, Daer hy by creech een Dochter Machtelt ghenaemt, Met een Soon Floris, vvelck vvas van naturen vet: Nae veel victoris fterf dees Grave feer vvijt befaemt, En vvert t'Egmont met rou begraven, foo dat betaemt. Floris xj. t'Iaier 1092. Grave. reg. 31. Iaier. ALs Dideric vvas doot, vvert fijn Soon vercoren dra Floris, genaemt de vette Graef, een Prince reyn, In rijckdom en deucht ging te boven foo ick verftae Hy fijn voor-ouders. Des Keyfers Sufter Petronella Sijn VVijf vvas ee Gods-vruchtige Vrou certeyn, Welcke ftichte t'Cloofter tot Reyn fburg, ick fegt u pleyn, En creech by hem een Dochter met drie Sonen ghevvis, De rebelle Vriefen bedvvangh hy alghemeyn. Een en dertich Iaer regeerde hy, foo ick gis, En fterf in vreden, t'Egmont hy begraven is.

Geertruyd 7. The year 1020. Countess. reigned 2 years. Geertruyt, after Count Floris her husband was dead, Only one year she governed these lands alone, On behalf of her child: which, as it grieved her, Married again a man of great esteem, With the land's knighthood, whom she desired, Robert the Frisian named, by whom she generated Two sons, three daughters pure of customs: For her virtue and her husband's bravery one highly honored her. After he had possessed the land in peace for eight years, Departed to Ghent, and passed away there. Robert 8. The year 1064. Count. reigned 7 years. This is Robert named the Frisian, a brave hero Who is also placed among these Counts, Because he was made guardian over the young Count, From Rhodes and Cyprus drove these with force, The Saracens because they had forsaken Christ, After this with many Princes entered the Holy Land, Where he showed himself as a Prince brave and well. Although he was banished from the land, I say unblamed, Drove away again those who were rebel to the young Count: Thereafter he died, and is buried at Cassel. Godfrey 9. The year 1071. Count. reigned 7 years. Godfrey with the hump, as the chronicle makes known, Was never recognized in Holland as a rightful Count, But has through evil suggestion and the Bishop's presumption Of Utrecht, powerfully possessed Holland, And driven away the young Count, and violated his land. The city of Delft he founded and thereabout, A castle where he lived upon, very strongly built. At Antwerp sitting on the privy where he was accustomed, Count Floris' servant struck him from below very boldly, Of which he died at Maastricht, keep this well in mind. Dirk 10. The year 1075. Count. reigned 15 years. When Godfrey had thus let go his life, Came the young Count to Holland, it could not avail The Bishop, although he had occupied the land's frontiers: He drove with the help of his guardian and subjects The enemy out of his hereditary lands, mark this well, And married after this a neat Princess of Saxony, By whom he got a daughter named Machtelt, With a son Floris, who was by nature fat: After many victories died this Count very widely famed, And was buried at Egmont with mourning, as is fitting. Floris 11. The year 1092. Count. reigned 31 years. When Dirk was dead, was his son chosen quickly Floris, named the fat Count, a pure Prince, In wealth and virtue surpassed, as I understand, His ancestors. The Emperor's sister Petronella His wife was a God-fearing woman certainly, Who founded the monastery at Rijnsburg, I tell you plainly, And got by him a daughter with three sons for sure, The rebel Frisians he subdued altogether. Thirty-one years he reigned, as I guess, And died in peace, at Egmont he is buried.

Gravin Geertruida VII en graven Robrecht VIII, Godfried IX, Dirk X en Floris XI

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