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Louis's pro-French policies and excessive taxations caused an uprising in 1323. Beginning as a series of scattered rural riots, the peasant insurrection escalated into a full-scale rebellion that dominated public affairs in Flanders for nearly five years until 1328.
In September 1322, the old Count Robert III died. Because Robert's son and heir, Louis I, had died two months earlier, the count was succeeded by his grandson Louis.Louis thus, within a time span of two months, inherited the Counties of Nevers and Flanders from his father and grandfather and, in the name of his mother, held real power in Rethel, which he would also formally inherit in 1328 ...
Louis I (1272 – 22 July 1322) was suo jure Count of Nevers and jure uxoris Count of Rethel. Louis was a son of Robert III, Count of Flanders, [1] and Yolande, Countess of Nevers. [2] He succeeded his parents as Count of Nevers. In December 1290, he married Joan, Countess of Rethel, [3] and thus became her co-ruler in the County of Rethel ...
Louis I (1285–1322; married Joan; also count of Nevers) Louis II (1322–1346; also count of Flanders and Nevers; married Margaret, countess of Artois) Louis III (1346–1384; also count of Flanders, Nevers, and Artois) Margaret (1384–1402; also countess of Flanders, Nevers, Artois, and duchess of Burgundy)
Louis II (Dutch: Lodewijk van Male; French: Louis II de Flandre) (25 October 1330, Male – 30 January 1384, Lille), also known as Louis of Male, a member of the House of Dampierre, was Count of Flanders, Count of Nevers, and Count of Rethel from 1346 to 1384, and also Count of Artois and Count of Burgundy from 1382 until his death.
Louis I of Spain (1707–1724) Louis I of Etruria (1773–1803) Louis Bonaparte (1778–1846), King of Holland 1806–1810 as Louis I; Ludwig I of Bavaria (1786–1868) Luís I of Portugal (1838–1889) Louis VIII of France who claimed the throne of England as Louis I of England, (1216–1217) Louis X of France, also known as Louis I of Navarre ...
Coat of arms of the counts of Flanders. The count of Flanders was the ruler or sub-ruler of the county of Flanders, beginning in the 9th century. [1] Later, the title would be held for a time, by the rulers of the Holy Roman Empire and Spain. During the French Revolution, in 1790, the county of Flanders was annexed to France and ceased to exist ...
The music, by Karel Miry (1823–1899), is apparently influenced by Robert Schumann's Sonntags am Rhein. Like France's Marseillaise , De Vlaamse Leeuw is a nationalist battle song. Franco-Belgian political tension in the mid-19th century made the Flemish public mood ripe for such an expression of regional feeling.