The area was part of Frisia.

He is often considered the last independent ruler of Frisia before Frankish domination.

Frisia or Friesland is a coastal region along the southeastern corner of the North Sea, i.e.

One theory proposes that it was developed in Frisia and later spread to England.

Radbod (or Redbad) (died 719) was the king (or duke) of Frisia from c. 680 until his death.

He was succeeded by a long line of counts in the House of Holland (who were in fact known as counts of Frisia until 1101).

He had probably been with the Great Heathen Army, descended on the continent, and became a vassal of the emperor Charles the Fat, controlling most of Frisia between 882 and 885.

East Frisia or Eastern Friesland (German Ostfriesland East Frisian Low Saxon Oostfreesland ) is a coastal region in the northwest of the German federal state of Lower Saxony.

Godfrid, Godafrid, Gudfrid, or Gottfrid ( murdered June 885) was a Danish Viking leader of the late ninth century.

In 1807 Prussian East Frisia and Jever were added to the kingdom but in 1809, after a British invasion, Holland had to give over all territories south of the river Rhine to France.

His ancestry is unclear, but he may have been a son or, more likely, a grandson of the earlier Gerolf, who was a count in the area of Frisia at the time of the reign of Emperor Louis I the Pious (fl.