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2 days ago · Philip the Handsome (22 July 1478 – 25 September 1506), also called the Fair, was ruler of the Burgundian Netherlands and titular Duke of Burgundy from 1482 to 1506, as well as the first Habsburg King of Castile (as Philip I) for a brief time in 1506.
6 days ago · On a cold November day in 1905, European royalty gathered in Brussels to attend the funeral of Prince Philippe of Belgium. Also known as the Count of Flanders, Philippe spent most of his life lingering in the shadows of his older brother, who would later become King Leopold II.
1 day ago · And running off with Bertrada endangered his diplomatic relations with Berthe’s stepfather, the count of Flanders, not to mention the goodwill of Anjou, erstwhile a counterweight ally against English claims to Normandy. Philip couldn’t persuade the French bishops, much less the pope, Urban II, to let him divorce Berthe.
5 days ago · Philip would move into the Prinsenhof in Ghent in 1411, and three years later he would become the official governor of Flanders – literally the lieu-tenant, the ‘place-holder’, a function that would be given the name ‘stadtholder’ in the regions of Holland.
Jun 7, 2024 · The first dynasty of counts died out in 1119, but Flanders rose to the height of its power and wealth under a later line of counts whose principal members were Thierry of Alsace (1128–68) and his son Philip (1168–91).
Jun 3, 2024 · The Battle of Bouvines on July 27, 1214, gave a decisive victory to the French king Philip II Augustus over an international coalition of the Holy Roman emperor Otto IV, King John of England, and two French vassals.
May 30, 2024 · Lotharingia's fragmentation and theoretical submission to its neighbours gave Duke Philip something to look out for. Philip married the youngest daughter of the Count of Flanders, which at the time was an area spanning from Northern France to Ghent.
