The Hook and Cod wars comprise a series of wars and battles in the County of Holland between 1350 and 1490. Most of these wars were ostensibly fought over who should hold the title of "Count of Holland", but some have argued that the underlying reason was a power struggle conducted by the bourgeois in the cities against the ruling nobility.
Jacqueline of Bavaria, entering the conquered Gorkum, faces the corpse of William, Lord of Arkel
Belfort from 1275 above Delft city hall
The Nobelpoort in Zierikzee
The Siege of Gorkum, 1417
The County of Holland was a state of the Holy Roman Empire and from 1433 part of the Burgundian Netherlands, from 1482 part of the Habsburg Netherlands and from 1581 onward the leading province of the Dutch Republic, of which it remained a part until the Batavian Revolution in 1795. The territory of the County of Holland corresponds roughly with the current provinces of North Holland and South Holland in the Netherlands.
Rorik of Dorestad in a 1912 illustration by Hermanus Willem Koekkoek
Dirk VI, Count of Holland, 1114–1157, and his mother Petronella visiting the work on the Egmond Abbey, Charles Rochussen, 1881.
Count Willem II of Holland Granting Privileges by Caesar van Everdingen and Pieter Post, 1654.
The Relief of Leiden by the Geuzen in 1574, by Otto van Veen.
