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- The County of Flanders was created in the year 862 as a feudal fief in West Francia, the predecessor of the Kingdom of France.
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The County of Flanders was created in the year 862 as a feudal fief in West Francia, the predecessor of the Kingdom of France. After a period of growing power within France, it was divided when its western districts fell under French rule in the late 12th century, with the remaining parts of Flanders came under the rule of the counts of ...
The county of Flanders officially ceased to exist in 1795, when it was annexed by France, and divided into two departments: Lys (present day West Flanders) and Escaut (present day East Flanders and Zeelandic Flanders).
Coat of arms. County of Flanders, 1350, in relation to the Low Countries and the Holy Roman Empire. The county was located where the border between France and the Holy Roman Empire met the North Sea. Status. French and Imperial fiefdom.
Flanders, medieval principality in the southwest of the Low Countries, now included in the French département of Nord ( q.v. ), the Belgian provinces of East Flanders and West Flanders ( qq.v. ), and the Dutch province of Zeeland ( q.v. ). The name appeared as early as the 8th century and is believed to mean “Lowland,” or “Flooded Land.”
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The County of Flanders is first recorded for 862, then as part of the West Frankish Kingdom (of France), to which it belonged until 1495. In the course of the Middle Ages the Counts of Flanders acquired territory beyond the French border, in the Holy Roman Empire : Imperial Flanders (the Land van Aalst).
Contents. Consolidation of territorial states (1384–1567) Among the many territorial principalities of the Low Countries, Flanders, Brabant, Hainaut-Holland, and Gelderland (Guelders) in the mid-14th century had a dominating military and diplomatic position.
