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without permission of the church, provoking the anger of the church and of the 12 existing noble members of that knightly order. This story has no historical basis, just like another story that claims that Gerard of Velzen participated in the conspiracy because Floris supposedly raped his wife. What is certain is that Floris was remembered as a saint by the peasants of
Holland and that the "God of the Peasants" became a symbolic hero in the struggle for independence from Spain in the
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Otto II served as Floris V's guardian until he was twelve years old (1266) and considered capable of administering
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of local peasants. In panic Gerard of Velzen killed the count, and the lords fled. Gerard was eventually captured and killed in
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in 1287, but the local nobility sided with the count of
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