Lords of Amstel
And this is where the Lords of Amstel come into play: they are stewards and are therefore responsible for collecting tax money from the residents of the area. They have to do that, because Elten is far from Nardinclant.
However, that tax money is intended for the Missile Foundation in Elten, and the Lords of Amstel are not interested in that. “They didn’t care about the ladies of Elten and started playing boss,” Hoogenraad continues.
This continued for a while until Abdes Godelinde van Elten (head of the women’s monastery, ed.) decided in 1280 to lease the Nardinclant to Floris V, the Count of Holland.
Thus the Nardinclant, which was increasingly called the Gooi, became part of the county of Holland despite the attempts of the bishop of Utrecht to regain it. Of that county of Holland, the northern part later became the province of North Holland.
