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2 days ago · Duchy of Lower Lorraine (959–) Frisia: Frisian Freedom (11–16th century) County of Holland (880–1432) Bishopric of Utrecht (695–1456) Duchy of Brabant (1183–1430) Duchy of Guelders (1046–1543) County of Flanders (862–1384) County of Hainaut (1071–1432) County of Namur (981–1421) P.-Bish. of Liège (980–1794) Duchy of Luxem ...
5 days ago · The city on the Meuse or Maas was governed by both the Duke of Brabant (later replaced by the Dutch Republic) and the Prince-Bishop of Liège. Dating from the 13th century, this arrangement meant Maastricht had two mayors, two sets of civil servants and judges representing different rulers, and two religions (Protestantism and Catholicism).
2 days ago · Beethoven was the grandson of Ludwig van Beethoven, a musician from the town of Mechelen in the Austrian Duchy of Brabant in what is now the Flemish region of Belgium, who moved to Bonn at the age of 21.
1 day ago · Charles Martin (10 November 1433 – 5 January 1477) called The Bold, [a] was the last Duke of Burgundy from the Burgundian cadet branch of House of Valois from 1467 to 1477. He was the only legitimate son of Philip the Good and his third wife, Isabella of Portugal. Appointed as the Count of Charolais upon his birth, Charles vied for power and ...
1 day ago · A few months after emperor Henry VII had died in the Tuscan village of Buonconvento and before a successor had been elected, a young man, Ludwig, second son of the duke of Upper Bavaria made his name defeating a much larger Habsburg force. This success could not have come at a more opportune time as it propelled him into contention for the title of King of the Romans and ultimately, emperor.
3 days ago · Leopold I, who had accepted the Belgium throne in 1831, was from the German Saxe-Coburg and Gotha dynasty, which needed to invoke Belgium’s past to lend a sense of legitimacy to the royal line of the newly created country. Philip was thus given the dynastic title Count of Flanders in 1840.
5 days ago · In fact, the way the Sonian Forest looks today is the result of centuries worth of human-animal communities. In the late 12 th century or early 13 th century, the Duke of Brabant built a moated castle in Tervuren which eventually became a hunting lodge for the Habsburgs with a well-maintained game reserve. The gamekeepers kept the animals in ...
