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Excerpt from The Connection Between England and Burgundy During the First Half of the Fifteenth Century: The Stanhope Essay, 1909
The latter half of the fourteenth century saw an extra ordinary development in the affairs of the Low Countries. The consciousness of a growing tendency towards Nationalism on the part of the seemingly diverse nations which formed the population of these territories coincided, in a most remarkable manner, with the foundation on a new basis of the House of Burgundy, in the expansion of which they were soon to be merged. The new Valois Dukes of Burgundy formed the natural heads of the Flemish and Wallon movement towards a national independence from the Empire, as well as from France. By the marriage of Margaret of Flanders to Philip le Hardi in 1369 the foundations of a new European power were laid down. A fairly detailed account of the rise of the House of Burgundy from its foundation in 1363 will form therefore, a necessary preliminary to any consideration of the relations into which its Dukes, secure on their new footing in the Netherlands, entered with the Kings of England. In 1361 the Duchy of Burgundy, which had been governed since 1032 by Dukes who were descendants of Robert the Pious. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
