Person
Floris V
Count of Holland and Zeeland
Count Floris V of Holland and Zeeland (24 June 1254 – 27 June 1296), "der Keerlen God" (God of the Peasants), is one of the most important figures of the first, native dynasty of Holland (833–1299).
His life is documented in detail in the Rijmkroniek by Melis Stoke, his chronicler.
He is credited with a mostly peaceful reign, modernizing administration, policies beneficial to trade, generally acting in the interests of his peasants at the expense of nobility, and reclaiming land from the sea.
His dramatic murder engineered by King Edward I of England and Guy de Dampierre, count of Flanders, makes him a hero in Holland.