A History of Holland

George Edmundson

• Publisher: Endymion Press
• Year: 2018
• eBook ISBN: 9781531293116
• Topic: Personal Development
• Subtopic: Travel

The last duke of the ancient Capetian house of Burgundy dying in 1361 without heirs male, the duchy fell into the possession of the French crown, and was by King John II bestowed upon his youngest son, Philip the Hardy, Duke of Touraine, as a reward, it is said, for the valour he displayed in the battle of Poictiers. The county of Burgundy, generally known as Franche-Comté, was not included in this donation, for it was an imperial fief; and it fell by inheritance in the female line to Margaret, dowager Countess of Flanders, widow of Count Louis II, who was killed at Crécy. The duchy and the county were soon, however, to be re-united, for Philip married Margaret, daughter and heiress of Louis de Male, Count of Flanders, and granddaughter of the above-named Margaret. In right of his wife he became, on the death of Louis de Male in 1384, the ruler of Flanders, Mechlin, Artois, Nevers and Franche-Comté. Thus the foundation was laid of a great territorial domain between France and Germany, and Philip the Hardy seems from the first to have been possessed by the ambitious design of working for the restoration of a powerful middle kingdom, which should embrace the territories assigned to Lothaire in the tripartite division of the Carolingian empire by the treaty of Verdun (843). For this he worked ceaselessly during his long reign of forty years, and with singular ability and courage. Before his death he had by the splendour of his court, his wealth and his successes in arms and diplomacy, come to be recognised as a sovereign of great weight and influence, in all but name a king. The Burgundian policy and tradition, which he established, found in his successors John the Fearless (murdered in 1419) and John's son, Philip the Good, men of like character and filled with the same ambitions as himself.

Table of contents

• THE BURGUNDIAN NETHERLANDS
• HABSBURG RULE IN THE NETHERLANDS
• THE PRELUDE TO THE REVOLT
• THE REVOLT OF THE NETHERLANDS
• WILLIAM THE SILENT
• THE BEGINNINGS OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC
• THE SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT
• THE TWELVE YEARS’ TRUCE
• MAURICE AND OLDENBARNEVELDT
• FROM THE END OF THE TWELVE YEARS’ TRUCE TO THE PEACE OF MUENSTER (1621-48). THE STADHOLDERATE OF FREDERICK HENRY OF ORANGE
• THE EAST AND WEST INDIA COMPANIES. COMMERCIAL AND ECONOMIC EXPANSION
• LETTERS, SCIENCE AND ART
• THE STADHOLDERATE OF WILLIAM II. - THE GREAT ASSEMBLY
• THE RISE OF JOHN DE WITT. - THE FIRST ENGLISH WAR
• THE ADMINISTRATION OF JOHN DE WITT 1654-1665 - FROM THE PEACE OF WESTMINSTER TO THE OUT-BREAK OF THE SECOND ENGLISH WAR
• THE LAST YEARS OF DE WITT’S ADMINISTRATION, 1665-1672. THE SECOND ENGLISH WAR. THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE. THE FRENCH INVASION
• WAR WITH FRANCE AND ENGLAND. WILLIAM III, STADHOLDER. MURDER OF THE BROTHERS DE WITT, 1672
• THE STADHOLDERATE OF WILLIAM III, 1672-1688
• THE KING-STADHOLDER, 1688-1702
• THE WAR OF THE SPANISH SUCCESSION AND THE TREATIES OF UTRECHT, 1702-1715
• THE STADHOLDERLESS REPUBLIC, 1715-1740
• THE AUSTRIAN SUCCESSION WAR. WILLIAM IV, 1740-1751
• THE REGENCY OF ANNE AND OF BRUNSWICK. 1751-1766
• WILLIAM V. FIRST PERIOD, 1766-1780
• STADHOLDERATE OF WILLIAM V,continued, 1780-1788
• THE ORANGE RESTORATION. DOWNFALL OF THE REPUBLIC, 1788-1795
• THE BATAVIAN REPUBLIC, 1795-1806
• THE KINGDOM OF HOLLAND AND THE FRENCH ANNEXATION, 1806-1814
• THE FORMATION OF THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS, 1814-1815
• THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS—UNION OF HOLLAND AND BELGIUM, 1815-1830
• THE BELGIAN REVOLUTION, 1830-1842
• WILLIAM II. REVISION OF THE CONSTITUTION. 1842-1849
• REIGN OF WILLIAM III TO THE DEATH OF THORBECKE,1849-1872
• THE LATER REIGN OF WILLIAM III, AND THE REGENCY OF QUEEN EMMA, 1872-1898
• THE REIGN OF QUEEN WILHELMINA, 1898-1917
• EPILOGUE