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Duke of Brabant. 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 ...
John II (27 September 1275 – 27 October 1312), also called John the Peaceful, was Duke of Brabant, Lothier and Limburg (1294–1312). He was the son of John I of Brabant and Margaret of Flanders .
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The Duchy of Brabant (adjective: Brabantian or Brabantine) was historically divided into four parts, each with its own capital. The four capitals were Leuven, Brussels, Antwerp and 's-Hertogenbosch. Before 's-Hertogenbosch was founded, Tienenwas the fourth capital. Its territory consisted essentially of the three modern-day Belgian provinces of Fle...
The modern flag of Belgium takes its colors from Brabant's coat of arms: Sable a lion or armed and langued gules (a gold lion on a black fieldwith red claws and tongue). Probably first used by Count Lambert I of Louvain (ruled 1003–1015), the lion is documented in a 1306 town's seal of Kerpen, together with the red lion of Limburg. Up to the presen...
The region's name is first recorded as the Carolingian shire pagus Bracbatensis, located between the rivers Scheldt and Dijle, from braec "marshy" and bant "region".[citation needed] Upon the 843 Treaty of Verdun it was part of Lotharingia within short-lived Middle Francia, and was ceded to East Francia according to the 880 Treaty of Ribemont. In e...
Brabant had fortified walled cities and unwalled cities. The unwalled cities did not have the right to construct walls. Trade was allowed in the walled areas and usually this right resulted in a larger population and the development of major villages and later cities. The unwalled cities also had the right to hold markets, which they held on large ...
Edmundson, George (1911). "Brabant (duchy)" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 4 (11th ed.). pp. 356–357.
Dec 16, 2022 · John I of Brabant, also called John the Victorious (Leuven 1252/1253 – May 3, 1294 in Leuven) was Duke of Brabant (1267–1294), Lothier and Limburg (1288–1294). He was the son of Henry III, Duke of Brabant and Aleidis of Burgundy, daughter of Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy.
- Leuven, Flanders
- April 03, 1253
- "John the Victorious"
- Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Flanders, Belgium
history of Low Countries. …during the 13th century, while John I, Duke of Brabant, sought expansion toward the Rhine valley, which offered protection for the growing trade that moved from Cologne overland through Brabant. Duke John II, however, left such formidable debts that Brabant merchants were arrested abroad, which made them claim ...
2 days ago · In the twelfth century, the term Brabant came to denote the possessions of the house of Louvain; in the thirteenth, the title ‘duke of Brabant’ replaced the designation ‘duke of (Lower) Lorraine’. W. Kienast, Der Herzogstitel in Frankreich und Deutschland (Munich, 1968), 395–404. 1106–1128. Godfrey I, the Bearded (count of Louvain ...
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John II, also known as John the Peaceful, was the Duke of Brabant, Lothier, and Limburg from 1294 until his death in 1312. He succeeded his father, John I of Brabant, and continued to oppose French expansion. His attempt to conquer South Holland from the pro-French Count John II of Holland was unsuccessful.
