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The Duchy of Brabant, a state of the Holy Roman Empire, was established in 1183. It developed from the Landgraviate of Brabant of 1085–1183, and formed the heart of the historic Low Countries . The Duchy comprised part of the Burgundian Netherlands from 1430 and of the Habsburg Netherlands from 1482, until it was partitioned after the Dutch ...
Coat of arms of the Duchy of Brabant.. The Duke of Brabant (Dutch: hertog van Brabant, French: duc de Brabant) was the ruler of the Duchy of Brabant since 1183/1184. The title was created by the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa in favor of Henry I of the House of Reginar, son of Godfrey III of Leuven (who was duke of Lower Lorraine at that time).
The early fourteenth century, a period of economic boom for Brabant, marks the rise of the duchy's towns, which depended on imports of English wool for their essential cloth industry. During John's minority, the major towns of Brabant had the authority to appoint councillors to direct a regency, under terms of the Charter of Kortenberg granted ...
John IV, Duke of Brabant (11 June 1403 – 17 April 1427) [1] was the son of Antoine of Burgundy, Duke of Brabant, Lothier and Limburg and his first wife Jeanne of Saint-Pol. He was the second Brabantian ruler from the House of Valois .
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The conflict was concluded with the victory of John I, Duke of Brabant at the Battle of Worringen in 1288. The Duchy of Limburg and its dependent territories then became possessions of the Duke of Brabant. It is at the time of the acquisition by Brabant that the area became known as the "Lands of Overmaas". [1]
The Chancellor of Brabant was the head of the civilian government of the late medieval and early-modern Duchy of Brabant as president of the Council of Brabant. List of chancellors [ edit ]
Statue of Saint Thomas Aquinas at the Dominican cloister of Huissen, Lingewaard.. De regimine Judaeorum, ad Ducissam Brabantiae (lit. ' On the government of the jews, to the Duchess of Brabant '), also known as the Epistula ad Ducissam Brabantiae, is an epistle written by Dominican friar and Catholic saint Thomas Aquinas to Adelaide of Burgundy, Duchess of Brabant.