A maritime county of the Holy Roman Empire on the North Sea coast, ruled from the 13th century by the House of Avesnes and then Wittelsbach counts from their residence at the Binnenhof in The Hague; by the 14th century it was one of the wealthiest and most urbanized territories in the Low Countries, built on herring fishing, cloth trade, and North Sea shipping.
Passed to the Duke of Burgundy, Philip the Good, in 1433 (absorbed into the Burgundian Netherlands), then the Habsburg Netherlands from 1482; became the leading province of the rebel Dutch Republic from 1581 and was formally dissolved as a distinct county administration during the Batavian Revolution of 1795.
The atlas holds 6 border frames for County of Holland — the shape you scrub through changes in 880 · 987 · 1183 · 1240 · 1556 · 1581.
Standard English-language history of the Low Countries (including Holland) across exactly this era, from the Burgundian absorption of Holland in 1433 through the early 16th century.