4.2 Meddling neighbours

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4.2 Meddling neighbours

Part 1

At the end of this lesson...

• You can explain how the Dukes of Burgundy increased their power in the 14th century.
• You can give three examples showing how Philip the Good opposed particularism in the Dutch regions.

Dutch Revolt

Middle Ages

• The Netherlands was divided in  regions known as provinces (gewesten).

Provinces had their own...

1. Government
2. Laws
3. Currency

Our own way!

• The people in the provinces had their own rights and priviliges which they wanted to keep.
• They wished to stay independent
• Particularism
• The Netherlands was not a nation-state.

The efforts done by the Dutch people to stay independent cities and provinces.

Special rights that were provided by the ruler of each province.

State in which the same laws and rules apply everywhere.

Burgundy

• In the fourteenth century, these various areas were under the control of a French high nobleman, the Duke of Burgundy.

They gained territory...

1. by receiving inheritances
2. through political marriages
3. by buying land
4. by conquering territories.

Burgundian

• Political marriage caused Philip the Bold to rule over the province of Flanders.
• Him and his successors controlled large parts of the Netherlands for a century.
• Burgundian Netherlands

Central rule?

• The different provinces were very difficult to control and govern.
• Philip the Good tries to set up a central council

How?

1. Instigates Stadtholders 
2. assembles what was first each provinces meeting of the states and calls it the States General.
3. made Brussels the capital of the Netherlands. French became the official language.

Delegate for the lord within a province.

Delegate for the lord within a province.

Homework

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