County of Zeeland information

The County of Zeeland (Dutch: Graafschap Zeeland) was a county of the Holy Roman Empire in the Low Countries. It covered an area in the Scheldt and Meuse...

Zeeland (Dutch: [ˈzeːlɑnt] ; Zeeuws: Zeêland [ˈzɪəlɑnt]; historical English exonym Zealand) is the westernmost and least populous province of the Netherlands...

family of businessmen and landowners who rose to prominence during the early Renaissance in the County of Zeeland of the Seventeen Provinces of the Holy...

County of Zeeland, held by the Counts of Holland; seceded to form part of the United Provinces from 1579. the County of Zutphen, held by the Dukes of...

region of the province of Zeeland in the south-western Netherlands. It lies south of the Western Scheldt that separates the region from the remainder of Zeeland...

Brabant and Limburg in 1430, and seized the Counties of Hainaut, Holland and Zeeland in 1432, and the Duchy of Luxembourg in 1441. His son, the last Burgundian...

upper quarter) and the County of Zutphen the Prince-Bishopric, later Lordship of Utrecht the County of Holland the County of Zeeland The southern provinces...

County of Holland the County of Zeeland the Lordship of Utrecht the Duchy of Guelders the Lordship of Groningen the Lordship of Friesland the County of...

Philip IV of France (1296–1305). The County of Zeeland was an area that had been contested between the Count of Flanders and the Count of Holland since...

Holland, and Zeeland. Although the state was small and had only around 1.5 million inhabitants, it controlled a worldwide network of seafaring trade...

County of Nice and Savoy, which led to the creation of three new departments. Two were added from the new Savoyard territory, while the department of...

Beoisterschelt: the County of Zeeland West and East of the river Scheldt (modern Dutch: Zeeland Bewesten- en Beoostenschelde) Malines: the Lordship of Mechelen French...

ridderhofstede (knightly estate) in the County of Zeeland. The first members were granted a warrant as sole suppliers of arms and armor to Fort Orange, were...

Lady of Voorne, Monschau and Valkenburg, and burgrave of Zeeland. During the Hook and Cod wars she was an important ally of Count William V of Holland...

the Flemish area and the Dutch county of Zeeland. They believe these surnames are medieval and were used in the meaning of 'merchant'. However, other scholars...

Philip the Good would administer the government of the County of Holland, County of Zeeland, and the County of Hainaut. Moreover, should Jacqueline perish...

Philip II of Spain, sovereign of the Netherlands, bought it in 1567. The marquisate, however, fell into arrears in its dues to the County of Zeeland (i.e....

"virtually given birth to modern atomism". Beeckman was born in Middelburg, Zeeland, to a strongly Calvinistic family, which had fled from the Spanish-controlled...

(1590–1625) County of Holland, Lordship of Utrecht, County of Zeeland (complete list) – For the preceding rulers, look under the List of state leaders...

Hanseatic League, several cities in Holland, Zeeland and Zuiderzee. Though originally only meant as a method of containing the growing Danish threat, the...

Holland and Zeeland: 1299–1356 Hainaut, Holland and Zeeland as part of Bavaria-Straubing: 1356–1432 In 1432, Hainaut, Holland and Zeeland joined Flanders...

Namur, the Lordship of Mechelen, the County of Boulogne, and the County of Zeeland. Wim Blockmans, "De samenstelling van de staten van de Bourgondische landsheerlijkheden...

(1590–1625) County of Holland, Lordship of Utrecht, County of Zeeland (complete list) – For the preceding rulers, look under the List of state leaders...