Comté d'Artois(French) Graafschap Artesië(Dutch) Comitatus Artesiae(Latin)
1237–1659
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Coat of arms
County of Artois (1350)
Status
Fiefdom of France, then state of the Holy Roman Empire (1493–1659)
Capital
Arras (Atrecht)
Common languages
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch, French
Government
Feudal county
Count of Artois
• 1237–1250
Robert I (first)
• 1404–1419
John the Fearless (last)
Historical era
Middle Ages
• To France as dowry
28 April 1180
• Count Robert I
1237
• Part of Burgundy
1384
• Passed to Habsburg
1493
• Joined Burgundian Circle
1512
• Reverted to France
5 November 1659
• Abolition of French noble titles
21 September 1792
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Kingdom of France
Kingdom of France
Burgundian Netherlands
Today part of
France
Blaeu: Artesia Comitatus, 1645
The County of Artois (French: comté d'Artois, Dutch: graafschap Artesië; Picard: Comté d'Artoé) was a historic province of the Kingdom of France, held by the Dukes of Burgundy from 1384 until 1477/82, and a state of the Holy Roman Empire from 1493 until 1659.
Present-day Artois lies in northern France, near the border with Belgium. Its territory has an area of around 4000 km2 and a population of about one million. Its principal cities include Arras (Dutch: Atrecht), Calais (Dutch: Kales), Boulogne-sur-Mer (Dutch: Bonen), Saint-Omer (West Flemish: Sint-Omaars, Lens and Béthune. It forms the interior of the French département of Pas-de-Calais.
In northern Gaul the Belgic tribe of the Atrebates lived in the future area of Artois, the name of which (Latin: Atrebatia) reflects theirs. A Carolingian feudal county in its own right from the late-8th century, Artois was annexed by the County of Flanders (898 onwards). It came to France in 1180 as the dowry of a 10-year-old Flemish noblewoman, Isabelle of Hainaut, and was again made a separate county in 1237 for Robert, a grandson of Isabelle. Through inheritance, Artois once again came under the rule of the counts of Flanders in 1384, this time as part of a large agglomeration of low countrie territories held by the dukes of Burgundy and their heirs the Habsburg kings of Spain. Artois briefly joined in the Dutch Revolt in 1576, participating in the alliance of the Pacification of Ghent until it became a member of the Union of Arras in 1579.
After the Union, Artois and Hainaut (Dutch: Henegouwen) reached a separate agreement with Philip II of Spain. Artois remained part of the Spanish Netherlands until it was conquered by the French during the Thirty Years War of 1618-1648. The annexation was acknowledged in the Treaty of the Pyrenees in 1659, and Artois became a French province.
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