Lists of rulers in the Low Countries

The Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt Delta of the Low Countries
History of the Low Countries (schematic)
Frisii Germanic tribes Belgae & Celts
Frisii Cana–
nefates[a]		 Chamavi,
Tubantes[b]		 Gallia Belgica (55 BC–c. 5th century AD)
Germania Inferior (83–c. 5th century)
Salian Franks Batavi[a]
unpopulated (4th –c. 5th centuries) Saxons Salian Franks[a] (4th–c. 5th centuries)
Frisian Kingdom (c. 6th century – 734) Frankish Kingdom (481–843)—Carolingian Empire (800–843)
Austrasia (511–687)
Middle Francia (843–855) West
Francia (from 843)		 Middle Francia (843–855)
Kingdom of
Lotharingia[c] (855–959)
Duchy of
Lower Lorraine[d] (from 959)		 Kingdom of
Lotharingia[c] (855–959)
Duchy of
Lower Lorraine[d] (from 959)		 Kingdom of
Lotharingia[c] (855–959)
Duchy of
Lower Lorraine[d] (from 959)
Frisia
County of
Flanders[e] (862–1384)

Frisian
Freedom[f] (11th–16th
centuries)
County of
Holland[g] (880–1432)
Bishopric of
Utrecht[h] (695–1456)
Duchy of
Brabant[i] (1183–1430)

Duchy of
Guelders[j] (1046–1543)
County of
Hainaut (1071–1432)

County of
Namur (981–1421)
Prince-
Bishopric of
Liège
[k](980–1791)
Duchy of
Luxembourg (1059–1443)

Burgundian Netherlands (1384–1482)
Burgundian Netherlands (1384–1482)

Habsburg Netherlands (1482–1795)
(Seventeen Provinces after 1543)[l]
Habsburg Netherlands (1482–1795)
(Seventeen Provinces after 1543)[l]

Dutch Republic (1581–1795)
Spanish Netherlands (1556–1714)
Spanish Netherlands (1556–1714)

Austrian Netherlands (1714–1795)
Austrian Netherlands (1714–1795)

United States of
Belgium (1790)
Republic of
Liège (1789–'91)
United States of
Belgium (1790)

Austrian Netherlands (1795–1797)
P.-Bish.
of Liège (1791–1794)
Austrian Netherlands (1795–1797)

Batavian Republic (1795–1806)
Kingdom of Holland (1806–1810)
associated with French First Republic (1795–1804)
part of First French Empire (1804–1815)

part of First French Empire (1810–1813)

Sovereign Principality of the
Netherlands (1813–1815)
United Kingdom of the Netherlands (1815–1830)
Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (from 1815)

Kingdom of the Netherlands (from 1839)
Kingdom of Belgium (from 1830)

Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (from 1890)

These are lists of rulers in the Low Countries. The Low Countries, historically also called the Netherlands, possessed clearly delineated boundaries only after 1500. Still in many respects they demonstrated common traits and underwent similar development that differentiated them from surrounding countries. The social, economic and political similarities evident throughout most of the region stem from the High Middle Ages, when the Scheldt, Maas and Rhine delta area became an important center of trade. Next to Northern Italy, the Low Countries became the most urbanised and prosperous region in Europe. Its political system exhibited, from relatively early on, a degree of representative government that differed from the more feudal arrangements then existent in much of Europe. Internationally, the region served both as a mediator for and a buffer to the surrounding great powers, France, England, and Germany.[1]

Origins (before 800)

Tribal rulers

Tribes in the Low Countries as recorded by the Romans (present-day borders superimposed)
  • Nervii (57 BC), Boduognatus, commander of the Nervii at the Battle of the Sabis against Julius Caesar, in the southern Low Countries.[2][3]
  • Morini (56–55 BC), unnamed leaders whose people avoided pitched battle by withdrawing into forests and marshes and later attacked Roman troops returning from Caesar’s first expedition to Britain, in the southwestern coastal Low Countries and adjacent northern Gaul.[4]
  • Menapii (56–53 BC), unnamed leaders whose people relied on forests and marshes in their resistance to Caesar, in the western Low Countries around the lower Scheldt and the Rhine–Meuse delta.[5]
  • Eburones (54–53 BC), Ambiorix and Catuvolcus, co-rulers who led the ambush of a Roman legion and the subsequent revolt against Caesar, in the eastern southern Low Countries between the Meuse and Rhine, including present-day Liège and Belgian and Dutch Limburg.[6][7]
  • Tubantes (14 AD), unnamed tribal leaders whose forces joined the Bructeri and Usipetes in attacking the returning army of Germanicus, traditionally associated with Twente and the surrounding eastern Low Countries.[8][9]
  • Frisii (58 AD), Malorix and Verritus, described by Tacitus as rulers of their people, who travelled to Rome to petition Emperor Nero for permission to settle on land along the Rhine, representing the northern coastal Low Countries.[10]
  • Cananefates (47 and 69 AD), Gannascus, a Cananefatian deserter who led Chaucian raiders against the Roman coast in 47, and Brinno, who was chosen to lead the Cananefatian revolt in 69, in the western Rhine–Meuse delta of the coastal western Low Countries.[11][12][13]
  • Batavi (69–70 AD), Gaius Julius Civilis, a Roman-trained Batavian leader who led the Revolt of the Batavi during the Year of the Four Emperors, from Batavia in the central Rhine–Meuse delta of the central Low Countries.[14]
  • Bructeri (69–70 AD), Veleda, a prophetess who exercised considerable religious and political influence over the Batavian-led coalition in the eastern Low Countries from Bructerian territory east of the Rhine.[15]
  • Chamavi (358 AD), King Nebisgast, attested during Emperor Julian’s campaign against the Chamavi along the eastern Rhine frontier of the Low Countries.[16][17]
Roman provinces Germania Inferior and Gallia Belgica

Roman rulers

The Low Countries as part of Frisia and northwestern Austrasia

Frankish rulers

  • List of Salian rulers (ca. 388–511), rulers of Salian Frankish groups traditionally associated with present-day Salland in the northeastern Low Countries, later established in Batavia and Texandria, and eventually centred on Tournai in the southern Low Countries.[20][21][22]
  • List of rulers of Austrasia (511–751), rulers of the northeastern Frankish kingdom, whose northwestern territories included substantial parts of the southern and eastern Low Countries.
  • List of Frankish kings (751–800), the Carolingian rulers under whom the southern Low Countries remained fully integrated into the Frankish realm, while the Frisian and Saxon territories in the northern and eastern Low Countries were gradually conquered and incorporated.[23]

Frisian rulers

  • List of rulers of Frisia (ca. 600–775), rulers associated with early medieval Frisia along the North Sea coast of the northern Low Countries, with Dorestad serving as a major commercial centre in the central river area contested by Frisians and Franks.[24]

Ecclesiastical rulers with later temporal power

Medieval dioceses Utrecht, Thérouanne (Terwaan), Arras (Atrecht), Tournai (Doornik), Cambrai (Kamerijk) and Liège (Luik) covered most of the Low Countries, while Osnabrück, Münster, Cologne (Keulen) and Trier extended into its eastern fringes (map does not show the bishops’ temporal territories).

Fragmentation (800–1400)

Middle Francia with the Low Countries in the north

Sovereign overlords and partitions (800–959)

Southwestern Low Countries

Southern and central Low Countries

Northern Low Countries

Consolidation (1384–1795)

Habsburg Netherlands

Burgundian and Habsburg Netherlands

Secular micro-states outside consolidation

Northern and central Low Countries

Eastern Meuse-Rhine Border

Dutch Republic, Spanish Southern Netherlands and ecclesiastical states

Dutch Republic

Centralization (1789–present)

Revolts and short-lived polities

Departments of the First French Empire in the Low Countries (1812)

French period

Direct French rule in the Low Countries

Successive French client states in the northern Low Countries

1815: Netherlands 1-3 in personal union with Luxembourg 4-5. 1831: Netherlands 1-2; Belgium 3-5. 1839: Netherlands 1 in personal union with Limburg and Luxembourg 2-5; Belgium 3-4. 1866: Netherlands 1-2 in personal union with Luxembourg 5; Belgium 3-4. 1890: Netherlands 1-2; Belgium 3-4; Luxembourg 5.

Kingdom of the Netherlands

Provinces within present-day the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg.

Kingdom of Belgium

Grand Duchy of Luxembourg

See also

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 Roman foederati
  2. ↑ The Chamavi merged into the confederation of the Franks; the Tubantes merged into the confederation of the Saxons.
  3. 1 2 3 Part of East Francia after 939, divided in Upper Lorraine (as part of West Francia) and Lower Lorraine (as part of East Francia) in 959.
  4. 1 2 3 Lower Lorraine—also referred to as Lothier—disintegrated into several smaller independent territories and only the title of a "Duke of Lothier" remained, held by Brabant.
  5. ↑ Including County of Artois (part of Flanders until 1237) and Tournaisis.
  6. ↑ Lordship of Frisia and Lordship of Groningen (including the Ommelanden) after 1524 and 1536 respectively.
  7. ↑ Including County of Zeeland, that was ruled by neighboring County of Holland and County of Flanders (until 1432).
  8. ↑ Utrecht included Lordship of Overijssel (until 1528), County of Drenthe (until 1528) and County of Zutphen (until 1182).
  9. ↑ Duchy of Brabant included since 1288 also the Duchy of Limburg (now part of Belgium's Liège Province) and the "Overmaas" lands Dalhem, Valkenburg and Herzogenrath (now part of the Dutch Province of Limburg).
  10. ↑ The county, later duchy, of Guelders consisted of four quarters, as they were separated by rivers: situated upstream Upper Quarter (the present day northern half of the Dutch province of Limburg), spatially separated from the three downstream Lower Quarters: County of Zutphen (after 1182), Veluwe Quarter and Nijmegen Quarter. The three lower quarters emerged from the historic gau Hamaland (named after the Chamavi tribe), and formed the present day province of Gelderland. Guelders did not include the Cleves enclave Huissen and the independent counties of Buren and Culemborg, that were much later seceded to the province of Gelderland.
  11. ↑ Throughout the Middle Ages, the bishopric was further expanded with the Duchy of Bouillon in 1096 (ceded to France in 1678), the acquisition of the county of Loon in 1366 and the county of Horne in 1568. The Lordship of Mechelen was also part of the Prince-Bishopric of Liège.
  12. 1 2 The name Seventeen Provinces came in use after the Habsburg emperor Charles V had re-acquired the Duchy of Guelders, and an continuous territory arose.
  13. ↑ During the Dutch Revolt, the Duchy of Brabant and the County of Flanders were divided between the Dutch Republic and the Spanish Habsburg Netherlands. The Peace of Münster of 1648 confirmed the Republic's possession of the conquered northern parts: Staats-Brabant, comprising most of present-day North Brabant, and Staats-Vlaanderen, broadly corresponding to present-day Zeelandic Flanders. They were governed directly by the States General as Generality Lands, while the remaining parts of Brabant and Flanders remained under Spanish rule as part of the Spanish Netherlands.
  14. ↑ The Duchy of Luxembourg did not join the United Belgian States. The Sovereign Congress was presided over successively by François de Nélis and Henri de Crumpipen. Habsburg rule was restored in December 1790.
  15. ↑ Jean-Remy de Chestret and Jacques-Joseph Fabry served in 1789–1790, followed by Fabry and Arnold-Godefroid de Donceel in 1790–1791. They were leading officials of the city and the revolution, rather than formal heads of state of the Republic of Liège.
  16. ↑ The committee comprised Claude-Pierre Jobard, Remacle Poncelet, François-Gérard Pirson, Pierre Castilhon, Renéaume-Latache, Dominique Millard and Jean-Joseph Nannan. Whether the republic was formally proclaimed is disputed; some accounts describe the new body as an ad hoc Council of State exercising executive authority in the duke’s absence.
  17. ↑ The nine principal departments created were Deux-Nèthes, Dyle, Escaut, Forêts, Jemappes, Lys, Meuse-Inférieure, Ourthe and Sambre-et-Meuse. Zeelandic Flanders, formerly Staats-Vlaanderen, was ceded by the Batavian Republic to France under the Treaty of The Hague of 1795 and incorporated into the department of Escaut. The annexed eastern border Meuse–Rhine microstates were incorporated into the Department of Meuse-Inférieure and included the former autonomous lordships and counties of Rekem, Gronsveld, Wittem, Kessenich, Stein, Wijlre, Pietersheim, Leut, Rijckholt, Rimburg, Terblijt, Mesch and Elsloo. The left-bank territories of the duchies of Jülich and Cleves, including several of their possessions in the Meuse–Rhine borderlands, were organized chiefly as the Department of Roer in 1798.
  18. ↑ The territories ceded in March 1810 were divided among Bouches-de-l'Escaut, comprising the remaining Dutch-held part of Zeeland; Bouches-du-Rhin, comprising eastern North Brabant and the part of Gelderland south of the Waal; and the existing department of Deux-Nèthes, to which western North Brabant, including the arrondissement of Breda, was added. The remainder of the former Kingdom of Holland was divided from 1 January 1811 into Zuyderzée, combining Amstelland and Utrecht; Bouches-de-la-Meuse, corresponding to the former department of Maasland; Yssel-Supérieur, comprising most of Gelderland north of the Waal; Bouches-de-l'Yssel, corresponding mainly to Overijssel; Frise, corresponding mainly to Friesland; Ems-Occidental, combining Groningen and Drenthe; and Ems-Oriental, comprising East Frisia. Zeelandic Flanders was excluded from Bouches-de-l’Escaut because it had already formed part of the Department of Escaut since 1795.
  19. ↑ Most other former Batavian and Holland colonies were already under British occupation by 1810; Britain conquered Java in 1811.
  20. ↑ The possessions formerly administered by the Dutch West India Company had reverted to the States General in 1792 and passed to the Batavian Republic in 1795. On 24 December 1795, the VOC directors were replaced by the state-appointed Committee for East Indian Trade and Possessions.
  21. ↑ The eight departments were Ems, Old IJssel, Rhine, Amstel, Texel, Delf, Dommel and Scheldt and Meuse. Although named in the Staatsregeling of 1798, their detailed territorial boundaries took effect under the law of 30 March 1799.
  22. ↑ The departments were Bataafs Brabant, Friesland, Gelderland, Holland, Overijssel, Stad en Landen van Groningen, Utrecht and Zeeland. Drenthe remained united with Overijssel; Ameland was assigned to Friesland; Wedde and Westerwolde to Groningen; IJsselstein to Holland; Vianen to Utrecht; and Culemborg and Buren to Gelderland.
  23. ↑ Under the Treaty of Fontainebleau of 11 November 1807, Holland acquired East Frisia and Jever, which were incorporated in 1808 as the eleventh department of East Frisia, while the lordships of Kniphausen and Varel were placed under Holland’s sovereignty; Varel was subsequently restored to Oldenburg. The former Cleves territories taken into possession in 1808 comprised Zevenaar and the Ambt Liemers, Huissen, Malburgen and Hulhuizen. Holland also received the northern part of Luyksgestel, while ceding Vlissingen and its surrounding territory, Lommel and the southern part of Eersel to France.
  24. ↑ Several other former Dutch colonies were already under British occupation. The administration of the Guinea Coast was reorganized under Louis Bonaparte in 1807 and 1809. Following the annexation of the Kingdom of Holland in 1810, the remaining overseas possessions came under French imperial authority.
  25. ↑ Utrecht and Drenthe were restored as separate provinces, and the province of Holland was reunited. The Constitution of 1814 listed Gelderland, Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Friesland, Overijssel, Groningen, Brabant and Drenthe as the nine provinces, which were to retain their old boundaries, subject to specified territorial adjustments.
  26. ↑ South Brabant retained the boundaries of the former Department of Dyle, East Flanders those of Escaut, West Flanders those of Lys, Hainaut those of Jemappes, and Antwerp those of Deux-Nèthes. Limburg comprised the whole of Meuse-Inférieure together with the parts of Roer assigned to the kingdom by the Vienna settlement; Liège comprised Ourthe minus the territories excluded by that settlement, while Namur comprised the part of Sambre-et-Meuse not assigned to the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. Most of the former Forêts department became part of Luxembourg, which was held by the Dutch monarch in personal union and belonged to the German Confederation.
  27. ↑ The former Cleves territories transferred to the Netherlands in 1816 included Huissen, Malburgen, Zevenaar, Duiven and Wehl; Lobith, Hulhuizen, Kekerdom and Leuth followed in 1817, while Schenkenschanz passed to Prussia. Parts of former Jülich territory west of the newly established frontier were incorporated into Limburg. Under the Dutch–Prussian boundary settlement of 1816, the disputed district of Moresnet was divided between the two states: Moresnet was assigned to the Netherlands, Neu-Moresnet to Prussia, while the zinc-mining territory around Kelmis became Neutral Moresnet, administered jointly by the Netherlands and Prussia and, after the Belgian secession, by Belgium and Prussia. East Frisia, although part of the Kingdom of Holland from 1807 to 1810, was not restored to Dutch sovereignty and was transferred by Prussia to Hanover in 1815. The Dutch–Prussian frontier was further delimited by the Treaty of Aachen and the Treaty of Cleves in 1816.
  28. ↑ The approximately 69 km² placed under Dutch administration on 23 April 1949 included Elten, the Selfkant around Tüddern, Suderwick-West and several smaller border strips. Almost all were returned in 1963, while the Duivelsberg or Wylerberg remained part of the Netherlands.
  29. ↑ The nineteenth-century duchy should not be confused with the medieval Duchy of Limburg. The Dutch province of Limburg had already been established in 1815; its admission to the German Confederation in 1839 did not constitute a new territorial incorporation of the former Meuse–Rhine lordships.
  30. ↑ In the Baarle area, where no continuous boundary could be established, the convention recorded the Belgian or Dutch nationality of individual cadastral parcels, thereby preserving the enclaves of Baarle-Hertog and the Dutch counter-enclaves of Baarle-Nassau.
  31. ↑ Under the Treaty of London (1839), the western part of the grand duchy became the Belgian province of Luxembourg, while the remaining territory continued as the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg under the Dutch monarch. The Treaty of London (1867) established Luxembourg’s permanent neutrality, required the withdrawal of the Prussian garrison and the dismantling of the fortress. The personal union with the Netherlands ended in 1890 following the death of William III, when the grand-ducal crown passed to Adolphe of Nassau-Weilburg.

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