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In the history of the Low Countries , the Burgundian Netherlands refers to the period when the Dukes Of Burgundy ruled the area, as well as Luxembourg and northern France from 1384 to 1477. DYNASTIC A fair share (but not most) of these territories were inherited by the Burgundian dukes, a younger branch of the French royal House Of Valois in 1384, upon the death of Louis de Mâle, Count Of Flanders . His heiress, Margaret III Of Flanders had married Philip II, Duke Of Burgundy, "Philip The Bold" (1342–1404), the first of the Valois dukes of Burgundy, who thus inherited the counties of Flanders , Artois , Rethel , Burgundy , and Nevers . Together they initiated an era of Burgundian governance in the Low Countries. The Burgundian territories were expanded with the ), and the Low Countries passed through Mary Of Burgundy to Maximilian Of Habsburg (see Seventeen Provinces ). The Burgundian dukes who ruled the Netherlandish territories were:
POLITICAL The sheer burden of variety of bishoprics and independent cities, the intensely local partisanship, the various taxation systems, weights and measures, internal customs barriers, fiercely defended local rights were a hindrance to a good Valois, but attempts at enlarging personal control by the dukes resulted in revolts among the independent towns, sometimes supported by independent local nobles, and bloody military suppression in response, and an increasingly modernized central government with a bureaucracy of clerks allowed the dukes to become celebrated art patrons and establish a glamorous court life that set conventions of behavior that lasted for centuries. Philip the Good (1419-1467) extended his personal control to the southeast bringing Brussels, Namur, and Liège under his control. He suppressed the traditional independence of the cities and consolidated the region's economy. DUCAL PATRONAGE From 1441, Philip based his ducal court in Brussels, but , the Van Eyck brothers, and Rogier Van Der Weyden SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC ''To Do'' EXTERNAL LINKS
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