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18-637: It was founded in the 13th century by William II of Holland as "Onze Lieve Vrouwenkapel", and the white sandstone tower was added in 1520 . After the Siege of Haarlem when 1500 soldiers were held here before being killed by the Spanish after their victory, the church was used to store turf for fifty years. Inscribed above the 1620 doorway on the north side is the Latin text Si laudem nova qui struxerunt templa tulere cur non qui renovant et vetus hocce ferant 1639 . The church

36-656: A frozen lake by himself, because he was lost, but his horse fell through the ice. In this vulnerable position, William was killed by the Frisians, who secretly buried him under the floor of a house. His body was recovered 26 years later by his son Floris V, who took terrible vengeance on the West-Frisians. William was then buried in Middelburg . Contemporary sources, including the chronicle of Melis Stoke , portray William as an Arthurian hero. A golden statue of William can be found on

54-579: A number of wars against the West Frisians . He built some strong castles in Heemskerk and Haarlem and created roads for the war against the Frisians. William gave city rights to Haarlem , Delft , 's-Gravenzande and Alkmaar . According to the Annales Wormatienses , on 10 November 1255 William "eliminated the rights of citizens who are called Pfahlbürger so that among other restrictions, none of

72-499: A siege of five months, William besieged Aachen for six months before capturing it from Frederick's followers. Only then could he be crowned as king by Archbishop Konrad of Cologne. He gained a certain amount of theoretical support from some of the German princes after his marriage to Elizabeth , daughter of the Welf duke Otto of Brunswick-Lüneburg , on 25 January 1252. He was elected as King of

90-577: Is currently in use as exhibition space for the workgroup of the Archeologisch Museum Haarlem . 52°22′53″N 4°38′30″E  /  52.38139°N 4.64167°E  / 52.38139; 4.64167 William II of Holland William II (February 1227 – 28 January 1256) was the Count of Holland and Zeeland from 1234 until his death. He was elected anti-king of Germany in 1248 and ruled as sole king from 1254 onwards. William

108-541: Is located. In 1610, the Castle Heemskerk was renamed to Castle Marquette and was at first the residence for many nobles and later inhabited by patricians . The last noble family that lived there were the House of Gevers. Today Castle Marquette is owned by the Spanish hotelgroup NH Hoteles and is the site of many weddings, conferences, and company courses, while the estate grounds are favoured for wedding photos. Located on

126-748: The Binnenhof in The Hague , the inner court of the parliamentary complex of the Netherlands. Heemskerk Heemskerk ( Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɦeːmskɛr(ə)k] or [ɦeːmsˈkɛr(ə)k] ) is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands , in the province of North Holland . It is located in the Kennemerland region. The town was formed during the Middle Ages . In an official deed from

144-568: The West Frisians . In the fifteenth century the residents of Heemskerk fought each other during the Hook and Cod wars , in which both castles were destroyed. The Oud Haerlem castle was never rebuilt, Castle Heemskerk however was. In 1492, a rebellion by the people of Kennemerland was brutally beaten down by the Austrian conquerors, on the place where today the cemetery of the Hervormde Kerk (Reformed Church)

162-510: The Rhineland." In his home county, William fought with Countess Margaret II of Flanders for control of Zeeland. As king of Germany, he made himself count of Zeeland. In July 1253, he defeated the Flemish army at Westkapelle (in modern-day Belgium ) and a year later a pause in hostilities followed. His anti-Flemish policy worsened his relationship with France . From 1254 to his death he fought

180-815: The Romans a second time on 25 March 1252 at Brunswick. The electors were the Archbishops of Cologne, Mainz and Trier, the Margrave of Brandenburg and the Duke of Saxony. The Count Palatine Otto II , who was also Duke of Bavaria, was excluded from taking part in the election on the ground that, as a supporter of Conrad IV, he was under sentence of excommunication. After the election, the King of Bohemia sent ambassadors conveying his consent to it. However, although "William lacked neither courage nor chivalrous qualities... his power never extended beyond

198-400: The church. After the time of knights and nobles, Heemskerk remained a small, quiet village near the dunes. Its residents, who mainly worked in agriculture and keeping cattle, had good, but also some very bad times. From the time that products—mainly strawberries for the neighbouring town Beverwijk , where the fruits were sold—were brought to the market with donkeys, people from Heemskerk got

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216-511: The cities were permitted to have them or receive them"; a later scribe added a gloss to clarify that the Pfahlburger s "were citizens who were not resident in the city". William married Elisabeth of Brunswick-Lüneburg , daughter of Otto the Child, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg , in 1252. They had a son, Floris V (1254 – 1296). In battle near Hoogwoud on 28 January 1256, William tried to traverse

234-509: The eastside of Heemskerk is Castle Assumburg , built from the remains of Kasteel Oud Haerlem in 1546. The Nederlandse Hervormde Kerk (Dutch Reformed Church) at the Nielenplein and Kerkplein is built in 1628, but it has a tower from the Middle Ages. In the graveyard around the church is a copy of a monument dedicated to the father of painter Maarten van Heemskerck . The original is located inside

252-469: The name of Donkey as a nickname and symbol. The former town hall was built in 1911 after a design by Jan Stuyt and was raised with an additional floor in 1949. Today this is the building where Janssen's notary office is located. The Roman Catholic Laurentiuskerk, designed by architect J. H. Tonnaer , was completed in 1891 and is a rare example of a Catholic church in Holland in a neo-renaissance style. There

270-563: The year of 1063, the town was known as Hemezen Kyrica , Latinized Frisian meaning Church of Hemezen, a Frisian nun who lived in a religious house there. Heemskerk knows many historical monuments, among them the Huldtoneel (lit. the "Inaugurate Stage"), an artificial hill located near the current Rijksstraatweg, where once the Counts of Holland were inaugurated. According to tradition, the Huldtoneel

288-400: Was excommunicated by Pope Innocent IV . He succeeded Landgrave Henry Raspe of Thuringia who had died within a year after his election as anti-king in 1246. The next year, William decided to extend his father's hunting residence to a palace which met his new status. This would later be called the Binnenhof ( Inner Court ) and was the beginning of the city of The Hague . Meanwhile, after

306-502: Was the eldest son and heir of Count Floris IV of Holland and Matilda of Brabant . When his father was killed at a tournament at Corbie , William was only seven years old. His paternal uncles William and Otto , bishop of Utrecht , were his guardians until 1239. With the help of his maternal uncle Duke Henry II of Brabant and the Cologne archbishop Konrad von Hochstaden , William was elected king of Germany after Emperor Frederick II

324-569: Was used before the Roman Era as a Germanic sanctuary. In the nineteenth century Jonkheer Gevers finally made the Huldtoneel a monument - as it is known today - and ordered passers-by to honour the monument. Many battles have been fought in Heemskerk. Two castles— Oud Haerlem Castle and Heemskerk Castle —were built in the twelfth and thirteenth century respectively to protect the County of Holland against

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