The Battle of Warns was a battle of the Friso-Hollandic Wars between Count William IV of Holland and the Frisians which took place on 26 September 1345. The annual commemoration of the battle is important for many nationalist Frisians. The Frisians won the battle and repelled the 'Hollanders' from the eastern coast of the Zuiderzee.
The monument of the battle of Warns in Friesland. It says, in Frisian, "Better to be dead than a slave".
Memorial tablet for the lords of Montfoort, Centraal Museum, Utrecht.
Warns is a village in the northern Netherlands. It is located in the municipality of Súdwest-Fryslân, Friesland. It had a population of around 720 in January 2017.
St John the Baptist Church
Memorial to the battle at Warns
Village house (De Spylder) in the street
Reformed church in the street