De affaire Van Borselen en de consolidatie van de Bourgondische macht in de Nederlanden (1425-1435)

Robert Stein, The Borselen Affair and the Consolidation of Burgundian Power in the Netherlands Over a period of barely three years, Philip the Good, duke of Burgundy, manifested himself as the most important prince of the Low Countries. In the years 1427-1430, he seized the principalities of Hainault, Holland, Zeeland, Brabant and Limburg, which he added to his extensive possessions in Flanders, Artois and Burgundy. In this same period, Philip acquired significant rights to the succession to Luxembourg, which eventually took place in 1444. In this way, he laid the foundation of the later unifi... Mehr ...