page_title: William II, Count of Hainaut
section_title: Military career and death
hierarchical_section_title: William II, Count of Hainaut / Military career and death
caption_attribution_description: English: Holland, 1/4 groat of William IV, Count of Holland (1337-1345), struck Geertruidenberg Nederlands: Holland, 1/4 groot van Willem IV, Graaf van Holland (1337-1345), geslagen te Geertruidenberg. Voorzijde: staande leeuw naar links in binnencirkel. Omschrift: adelaar MONTAxMxS'xGERT'. Keerzijde: lang gevoet kruis met driebladige versiering in de kwadranten. Omschrift: GL'xC-OME-SHO-LAD.
context_page_description: William II was Count of Hainaut from 1337 until his death. He was also Count of Holland and Count of Zeeland. He succeeded his father, William I, and married Joanna of Brabant in 1334, but had no issue.
context_section_description: William fought in France as an ally of the English. (He was the brother-in-law of Edward III.) He went on crusade against the Saracens and the Lithuanians. He besieged Utrecht, because his one-time favourite bishop John van Arkel of Utrecht had turned against him. He died at Warns, near Stavoren, during one of the battles of Warns against the Frisians in 1345.
caption: Holland, 1/4 groat, struck in Geertruidenberg by William IV as Count of Holland.
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