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	Battle of the Golden Spurs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Battle of the Golden Spurs (Dutch: De Guldensporenslag, French: "bataille des éperons d'or") was fought on July 11, 1302, near Kortrijk in Flanders.
		The reason for the battle was a French attempt to subdue the county of Flanders, which was formally part of the French kingdom and added to the crown lands in 1297, but resisted centralist French policies.
		The Battle of Courtrai or the Battle of the Golden Spurs — July 11th 1302.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_the_Golden_Spurs (1005 words)

	List of battles (geographic) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Battle of Sedgemoor - 1685 - Monmouth Rebellion
		Battle of Grotnik - 1439 - Polish rebellion*Battle of Grunwald - 1410
		Battle of Niquitao - 1813 - Campaña Admirable
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_battles_(geographic) (1517 words)

	The Battle of the Golden Spurs (1302). Guldensporenslag. Tourist information about the city of Kortrijk, Courtrai in ...
		The Battle of the Golden Spurs was fought on July 11th 1302 near Kortrijk, between the rebellious Flemish towns, led by Bruges, and an army sent by Philip IV of France, who had annexed Flanders in 1301.
		The battle of 1302 between the army of French knights and the rebellious Flemish was the military apex of the rebellion against the attempts by the French kings to annex the County of Flanders.
		In the 19th century the commemoration of the Battle of the Golden Spurs became a symbol of the struggle for Flemish recognition in the French-dominated Belgian State (founded in 1830).
	www.trabel.com /kortrijk/kortrijk-battle.htm (801 words)

	Battle of the Golden Spurs at opensource encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Battle of the Golden Spurs was fought on July 11, 1302, near Kortrijk in Flanders.
		The reason for the battle was a French attempt to annex the country of Flanders.
		The battle showed that mounted knights were not invincible and so marked the beginning of their decline in European warfare.
	www.wiki.tatet.com /Battle_of_the_Golden_Spurs.html (534 words)

	Kortrijk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Battle of the Golden Spurs (Dutch: Guldensporenslag) took place near Kortrijk on July 11, 1302, when the local Flemish population mounted a successful uprising against the French rulers of Flanders.
		The chapel of the count ("Gravenkapel") in the church of Our Lady (Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekerk) has a large number of golden spurs painted on the ceiling.
		Another reminder of Kortrijk's medieval history are the Broel towers and the small bridge in between spanning one arm of the river.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kortrijk (301 words)

	J.F.Verbruggen The Battle of the Golden Spurs: Courtrai, 11 July 1302
		Part two of the book consists of a detailed description of the battle including the terrain on which it was fought, the relative strength of the two armies involved and the tactics employed.
		The section on the terrain at Courtrai is particularly valuable given the importance of the position of watercourses on the battlefield and the influence which they had on its eventual outcome.
		Verbruggen’s final conclusions divide into two: on the one hand he sees the battle as of enormous importance in establishing the national identity of Flanders given expression in the confidence and cohesion of the town militias.
	www.deremilitari.org /REVIEWS/review19.htm (585 words)

	Kortrijk (Municipality, Province of West Flanders, Belgium)
		The battle, aka the Golden Spurs battle, was the first victory of infantry against knights and is a founding event of the Flemish identity; it is described in more detail below.
		He was killed by the Flemish and the battle turned into a general scattering of the French knights; those who could not cross back the brook were slaughtered by the Flemish.
		The battle of the Golden Spurs was the first victory of an army fighting on foot against horsemen.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/be-vwvko.html (1663 words)

	Famous Defeats of the French quiz -- free game (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		One such a case was a battle near Courtrai, now close to the French-Belgian border, during which the French knights sustained a crushing defeat at the hands of a force of Flemish weavers and other workmen.
		Like the later Battle of Agincourt (1415), the Battle of Crécy (Aug. 26, 1346) was fought between a retreating English army and a French army interposing itself between the invaders and the Channel ports.
		The decisive factor in the battle of Crécy was undoubtedly the introduction of new weaponry.
	www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=150973 (479 words)

	Flanders Fields - New York Times
		There were four major battles at Ieper; in the second (1915), the German army introduced a new weapon, poison gas, while the third (1917) was a particularly infamous disaster of roiling mud and extreme casualties in which the Allies gained only a few kilometers.
		The Battle of the Golden Spurs (which the French call the Battle of Courtrai) was fought immediately outside the city walls.
		A 45-foot-high neo-Gothic monument was erected in 1902 on the spot where the Battle of the Golden Spurs was fought in 1302, and it is commemorated on the weekend closest to July 11 with a parade or a tournament.
	travel2.nytimes.com /fodors/top/features/travel/destinations/europe/belgium/brussels/fdrs_feat_35_7.html?/partner/rssnyt&pagewanted=all (2941 words)

	SoGoNow.com Vacation and Travel ideas - Sailing Aboard the Golden Odyssey . . .Barging Europe in Style (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In later years (1302) the town was the scene of the Battle of the Golden Spurs in which the Guildsmen of Flanders bested invading French knights.
		The Golden Odyssey is truly the vacationer's magic carpet ready to transport them the vast European waterway system (ten thousand kilometers in France alone) it would require volumes to describe the enticing possibilities.
		In the final analysis, Golden Odyssey is a wholly remarkable vessel providing her passengers with a truly memorable travel adventure, unique in the entire world...
	www.sogonow.com /archives/2005/08/saling_aboard_t.php (1051 words)

	The Battle of the Golden Spurs
		For a detailed analysis of this battle, readers are encouraged to consult The Battle of the Golden Spurs: Courtrai, 11 July 1302, by J.F. Verbruggen or the De Liebaart Website.
		When battle was joined those in the castle, mindful of their friends, threw down fire from the castle, as they had done often before and had set alight many houses in Courtrai and consumed one beautiful house by fire, to terrify the Flemings.
		The total of those who were either killed in the battle or died of their wounds soon afterwards was as much as twenty thousand, and many took flight.
	www.deremilitari.org /resources/sources/goldenspurs.htm (1073 words)

	Where We Come From... II
		In the Battle of Hastings in the year 1066 the Norman cavalry under William the Conqueror defeated an army of Anglo-Saxons fighting on foot.
		The English king Harold II was killed in the battle and the crown was awarded to William.
		Alongside depictions of the Battle of Hastings, the coronation of William I was a popular motif in the history painting of the 19th century.
	www.dhm.de /ausstellungen/mythen/english/woherb.html (4441 words)

	Battle of Golden Spurs 1302, 0851158889, £50.00/$85.00, 294pp, 2002
		The French knights, products of a lifetime's training, were ably led; but so too were the Courtrai townspeople, in addition to being well-armed, and their victory, despite their lack of military skills (and golden spurs), put an end to the enduring myth of the invincibility of the knight.
		Verbruggen's study is prefaced by discussion of the problems of reconstruction and extensive consideration of the sources, showing the difficulties faced by medieval military historians in attempts to interpret them.
		A classic of military history, enduring as the indispensable study of the battle and the foundation of all subsequent scholarship.
	www.boydell.co.uk /51158889.HTM (523 words)

	The Low Countries: 5.3 County of Vlaanderen
		Sanders present on the arms of Pieter de Coninck at the Battle of the Golden Spurs on July 11, 1302 near the Groeningekouter.
		The army, sent by Philip August to learn the Flemish a lesson, was defeated in the Battle of the Golden Spurs on July 1302; the Flemish even invaded Artois.
		At Mons-eb-Puelle, an undecided battle took place, and at the end of September 1304 a provisional treaty was signed.
	home.online.no /~vlaenen/low_countries/zp-vl.htm (1626 words)

	Belgium
		In the Battle of the Golden Spurs in July 1302 a militia of guild workers from the Flemish cities fighting on foot prevailed over an army of knights of the French king near the town of Kortrijk (Courtrai) in western Flanders.
		The spurs that were taken off the dead French cavaliers gave the battle its name.
		With this stunning victory the Flemish succeeded in repulsing the attempt of Philip the Fair to conquer Flanders; the king had been seeking to gain a direct influence on the country principally because of the economic strength of the Flemish towns.
	www.dhm.de /ausstellungen/mythen/english/belgien.html (772 words)

	July 11
		This is the date of The Battle of the Golden Spurs.
		Raoul saw that the battle was lost but plunged into it as a sort of suicide rush.
		The spurs which are in the church today are fake ones but don't tell anyone and everyone will still dig it.
	webpages.charter.net /astroweaver/history/july11.html (729 words)

	De Liebaart - The Battle of the Golden Spurs
		A battle is but won when the victorious army can hold the battlefield until the next morning.
		From the battlefield, apart of the expensive knightly armours, some five hundred pairs of golden spurs are found.
		Thanks to this fact and because of its extraordinary origins this battle is one of the most remarkable in history.
	www.liebaart.org /slag_e.htm (1243 words)

	The educational encyclopedia, medieval history (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Battle of Courtrai or the battle of the golden spurs - july 11th 1302
		Battle of Hastings (1066) Harold the Second and Duke William fight for the throne of England.
		Battle of Stamford Bridge it was the last Viking battle on English soil and ended the Viking era of English history
	users.telenet.be /educypedia/education/medievalbattles.htm (354 words)

	Kortrijk / Courtrai, Belgium
		On July 11, 1302 close to Kortrijk the Battle of the Golden Spurs took place on the battlefield on the Groeningekouter.
		After the battle the victorious Flemish weavers collected over 700 knights' spurs and hung them as a symbol of their triumph in the nave of the Onze-Lieve-Vrouwkerk in Kortrijk.
		They remained there until 1382 when the French inflicted a crushing defeat on the Flemish near Rozebeke, and one of their first acts after the victory was to expunge the humiliation of 1302 and remove the spurs from the church.
	www.planetware.com /belgium/kortrijk-courtrai-b-wv-koco.htm (477 words)

	Greetings,
		French in the battle of the Golden Spurs 1302
		In the Battle of the Golden Spurs (Courtrai, 1302), the defending crossbowmen with pavise entered into a crossbow duel with the French resulting almost no casualties on either side.
		John Keegan's "The Face of Battle" the first third of the book deals with Agincourt, and a healthy section of that discusses how the English longbow was employed.
	www.combat-archery.com /histarch.htm (1843 words)

	Courtrai (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		They too got caught in the river and march, and reached the battle in disarray, where they were able to prevent the massacre of the van, but not to break the Flemish line.
		Courtrai is also known as the Battle of the Golden Spurs, from the number of knightly spurs recovered.
		Thus, the French did not learn any lessons from the battle, and were vulnerable to the English infantry tactics of the hundred years war.
	www.corvalliscommunitypages.com /Europe/france/courtrai.htm (532 words)

	Belgium Before 1500 A.D. quiz -- free game
		Bishop Balderik II of Liège, count Lambrecht of Leuven and count Robert of Namur fought a battle in 1013 near a village that is very well known to lovers of Belgian beer.
		The Flemish authorities and most of the major Flemish employers celebrate July 11th, in rememberance of the Battle of the Golden Spurs.
		One of the main squares in Ghent is dominated by the statue of the dean of the guild of cloth weavers (1290-1345), who opposed the French king and tried to start a revolt, with the aid of the English king Edward III.
	www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=210241 (476 words)

	De Liebaart - The Battle of Courtrai or the Battle of the Golden Spurs - July 11th 1302
		De Liebaart - The Battle of Courtrai or the Battle of the Golden Spurs - July 11th 1302
		When they were at school they might have learned about the Middle Ages and this one battle in which the Flemings once, long ago, won on the French.
		That distant battle from long ago was the Battle of the Golden Spurs!
	www.liebaart.org /gulden_e.htm (659 words)

	In english
		This battle is called the "Battle of the Golden Spurs", after the spurs that were captured from the slain French knights.
		The intellectuals who organised the subsequent peaceful resistance against the neglect of the Dutch-speaking majority are now known as the 'Flemish Movement.' In the 19th century, the Flemish Movement was made up mostly of literary figures.
		These include J F Willems (the "Father of the Flemish Movement"), Hendrik Consience (author of the historical novel The Lion of Flanders, about the battle of the Golden Spurs in 1302), Charles De Coster (Tijl Uilenspiegel), and priest-poet Guido Gezelle.
	www.vlaamsblok.be /site_engels_11.shtml (1861 words)

	Language Log: schild en vriend
		Another example of the military use of a shiboleth cited by Mark Liberman took place 700 years ago in in what is now Belgium.
		On July 11, 1302 the resistance of the people of Flanders to the attempted annexation of their country by the King of France, known as the Flanders War of Liberation, came to a head in the Battle of the Golden Spurs, fought outside the city of Courtrai.
		The battle is of significance in military history as the first recorded occasion on which an army of footsoldiers defeated professional cavalry.
	itre.cis.upenn.edu /~myl/languagelog/archives/000424.html (208 words)

	Amazon.com: The Battle of Crécy, 1346 (Warfare in History): Books: Andrew Ayton,Sir Philip Preston (Bart) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Battle of the Golden Spurs (Courtrai, 11 July 1302) : A Contribution to the History of Flanders' War of Liberation, 1297-1305 (Warfare in History) by J.F. Verbruggen
		The battle of Crécy is of huge significance for both the course of the Hundred Years War and the continent of Europe as a whole.
		But the battle itself was brilliantly documented by the chronicler Jean Froissart and his account provides not only a great account of a very successfully executed battle on the part of the English but an excellent account of how war was fought in the high middle ages.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1843831155?v=glance (1676 words)

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		Clearly Lord Abraham was not murdered with a pair of spurs since every pair was on the battlefield.
		The popular uprising leading to the Battle of Kortrijk originated when the King of France, at the time in titular control of Flanders, provoked the Counts of Flanders and the Flemish citizenry with heavy-handed taxation and revocation of the charters and privileges of the major cities.
		From the battlefield some five hundred pairs of golden spurs, worn only by knights, were found.
	www.midrealm.org /darkriver/springevent/feast.html (684 words)

	Brugge Things To Do - Travel Guides - VirtualTourist.com
		Both Breydel and de Coninck participated in the 1302 uprising of the Flemish against the occupation by the French king, known as the Battle of the Golden Spurs'.
		This battle was also the central theme of the book 'De Leeuw van Vlaanderen' (the lion of Flanders) written by Hendrik Conscience in 1838.
		He romanticized the Flemish uprising and it became a symbol of the Flemish movement which fought for recognition of the Dutch language and Flemish culture in the French-language dominated Belgium of the 19th century.
	www.virtualtourist.com /travel/Europe/Belgium/Provincie_West_Vlaanderen/Brugge-357609/Things_To_Do-Brugge-R-73.html (1112 words)

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