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Up to 1477, the core area under French suzerainty was west of the Scheldt and was called "Royal Flanders" (Dutch: Kroon-Vlaanderen, French: Flandre royale ). Aside from this, the counts, from the 11th century onward, held land east of the river as a fief of the Holy Roman Empire: "Imperial Flanders" ( Rijks-Vlaanderen or Flandre impériale ).
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.
Thanks to it being inherited by the Habsburgs, Flanders ended up, uniquely, as the only territory that began the Middle Ages as part of France but ended them, as it still is, alienated from France. Today, most of historical Flanders, except for Picardy, is part of Belgium. (Additional information by Geoffrey Tobin.)
Oct 10, 2014 · Most of the French-speaking south of Flanders fragmented into numerous autonomous lordships and counties, which were mainly recovered in the course of the eleventh century. The small, long-lasting counties of Boulogne, Saint-Pol and Guines were, however, established in the south-west, which owed allegiance to the counts of Flanders in the ...
Flanders, Flemish Vlaanderen, Medieval principality extending along the coast of the Low Countries. Its lands are now included in the French département of Nord, the Belgian provinces of East Flanders and West Flanders, and the Dutch province of Zeeland.
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May 9, 2018 · Flanders a region in the south-western part of the Low Countries, now divided between Belgium (where it forms the provinces of East and West Flanders), France, and the Netherlands.
Dec 29, 2023 · Defending French in Flanders, 1873–1974. David J. Hensley. 27 Accesses. Abstract. This chapter examines the major issues at stake in the Flanders of the fin-de-siècle, where a propertied, educated elite, while “ethnically” Flemish, spoke French as a matter of tradition (and, some argued, snobbery).
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