Note 740 — Chapter V · JOHN AND THE POPE 1210–1214

The young countess of Holland, Ada, daughter and heiress of Count Theodoric who died in 1203; see Art de Vérifier les Dates, vol. xiv. pp. 261, 430. Her mother at once married her to Louis, count of Los; her father’s brother, William, claimed Holland against the young couple; he and Louis took opposite sides on the Imperial question, William holding for Otto, Louis for Philip of Suabia; and eighteen days after the wedding William drove Ada’s mother and husband out of Holland, captured Ada herself, and sent her to England to be kept in prison by John. She was still there in 1207, and was only released when her husband had done homage to both John and Otto, Rot. Pat. vol. i. p. 82, 82 b.