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 | | In 1498 Maximilian reversed the policy of his father Frederick III., and detached this territory, known afterwards as the province of Friesland, from the empire. |
| | He gave it as a fief to Albert of Saxony, who thoroughly crushed out all resistance. |
| | In 1523 it fell with all the rest of the provinces of the Netherlands under the strong rule of the emperor Charles, the grandson of Maximilian and Mary of Burgundy. |
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