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The siege of Arras took place from 22 June to 9 August 1640, during the Franco-Spanish War that had begun in 1635, a connected conflict of the Thirty Years' War. A French army besieged the Spanish-held town of Arras, capital of the province of Artois, then part of the Spanish Netherlands, which surrendered after holding out for 48 days.
Matthias was born in Arras, but little else is known about his early life. Career In 1344 he was summoned to Prague from the papal court of Avignon by Charles IV to lead works on the newly founded Saint Vitus Cathedral. He is also widely recognized as the architect of Karlstein Castle, although this fact is not fully authenticated.
Charles IV's statue in Karolinum. Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, from the House of Luxembourg was King of Bohemia (1346–1378) and Holy Roman Emperor (1355–1378). A powerful and intellectual ruler, Charles has been remembered for his munificient patronage, especially in the Kingdom of Bohemia which reached the apex of political and cultural power under his reign.
The Belfries of Belgium and France are a group of 56 historical buildings designated by UNESCO as World Heritage Sites, in recognition of the civic (rather than church) belfries serving as an architectural manifestation of emerging civic independence from feudal and religious influences in the former County of Flanders (present-day French Flanders area of France and Flanders region of Belgium ...
Matthias of Janov. Matthias of Janov ( Czech: Matěj z Janova; Latin: Matthias de Janow; c. 1350 – 1393/1394 in Prague) was a fourteenth-century Bohemian ecclesiastical writer and one of the most significant authors of the nascent Bohemian Reformation. [1]
Sight 1: Beffroi. Jean-Pol GRANDMONT / CC BY 4.0. The belfry of Arras is a structure in the commune of Arras, in the French department of Pas-de-Calais. Just like the town hall to which it is attached, it is a historical monument. Wikipedia: Beffroi d'Arras (FR) 564 meters / 7 minutes.
There have been several treaties of Arras : Treaty of Arras (1435), between Charles VII of France and Philip the Good of Burgundy. Treaty of Arras (1482), between Louis XI of France and the governments of the Low Countries. Treaty of Arras (1579), signed in May 1579. Union of Arras (January 1579), the pledge of loyalty to Spain by the Southern ...
