Netherlands of the south

The expression Netherlands of the south (or southernmost Netherlands ) is sometimes used to indicate the territories which form the Belgium today (with the exeption of the Principauté of Liege), the Luxembourg and the Nord-Pas-de-Calais.

Initially, the Netherlands were unified by the dukes of Burgundy: they are the Seventeen Provinces Burgundian Netherlands;
In 1581, the 7 provinces of north make secession and form the United Provinces;
the 10 provinces of the south remain under the control of Habsbourg and thus constitute the Netherlands of the south ; two States will follow one another it:

the Spanish Netherlands
the Austrian Netherlands.

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In 1581, the provinces for the majority Protestant and Dutch-speaking, located at the north and the center of the Spanish Netherlands made abjuration of the king (Spanish) and constituted the United Provinces. Some provinces Catholique S remained faithful to the crown of Spain in the Union of Arras; the other Netherlands of the south were reconquered by the royal army.

The July 12th 1611, the archduke Albert, to which one entrusted, with his wife Isabelle, the government of the old Spanish Netherlands, promulgates with Brussels the perpetual Édit , fruit of work of a commission of magistrates and legists charged to unify the applicable duty on these territories since the Roman law. The Perpetual Edict is at the origin of the first Belgian code of laws.

In 1648 the separation of the Netherlands was consolidated by the Traités of Westphalia. The South remained under the Spanish domination, but lost some provinces:

in 1659, the Comté of Artois becomes French, by the Traité of the Pyrenees
in 1678, part of the Flanders (Saint-Omer, Cassel, Bailleul, Ypres), by the Traité of Nimègue, consequence of the Bataille of Peene, with Noordpeene, on April 11th, 1677.

In 1713, the Spanish Netherlands become the Austrian Netherlands by the Traité of Utrecht.

See too

External bond

Chart of the Netherlands, separate since 1648

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