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The Habsburg Netherlands was a geo-political entity covering the whole of the Low Countries (i.e. the present-day Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and most of the modern French départements of Nord and Pas-de-Calais) from 1482 to 1581. The northern Low Countries began growing from 1200 CE, with the drainage and flood control of land, which ...
Seventeen Provinces map by Gabriel Bodenehr English map of the Seventeen Provinces of Low Germanie Coats of Arms of the Seventeen Provinces. After the Habsburg emperor Charles V had re-acquired the Duchy of Guelders from Duke William of Jülich-Cleves-Berg by the 1543 Treaty of Venlo, the Seventeen Provinces comprised:
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The Empire of Charles V, also known as the Habsburg Empire, included the Habsburg hereditary lands in central Europe, the kingdoms of Spain, the colonial Spanish Empire, the kingdom of Naples, the Habsburg Netherlands and other territories and principalities across Europe.
Charles seized the Duchy by force in 1473. Shortly before Charles's invasion Arnold, Duke of Guelders died and left the Duchy to him in his will. [65] The County of Zutphen was a dependency. [66] Guelders re-asserted its independence on Charles's death 1477. [13] His Habsburg heirs attempted to recover the Duchy.
Charles of Austria was born on 24 February 1500 in the Prinsenhof of Ghent, a Flemish city of the Habsburg Netherlands, to Philip of Austria and Joanna of Trastámara. [33] His father Philip, nicknamed Philip the Handsome , was the firstborn son of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor , Archduke of Austria , and Mary of Burgundy , heiress to the ...
To de jure Habsburg control as the Habsburg Netherlands. Inheritance Death of Mary the Rich, Maximilian assumes rule. County of Artois (lost) Treaty Ceded to France by the Treaty of Arras. 1493 Philip IV the Handsome: County of Artois, Burgundy and Charolais: Treaty Treaty of Senlis: 1506 Charles V: All Habsburg-Burgundian lands Inheritance ...
This is a list of stadtholders (Dutch: stadhouders, German: Statthalter) or governors (French: gouverneurs) in the Low Countries, or historical Netherlands region.This includes all the territories in the Low Countries that were acquired by the House of Habsburg in the 15th and 16th century and were politically united as the Habsburg Netherlands, then known as the "Seventeen Provinces".