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  Brabant, Netherlands (Duchy) - LoveToKnow 1911
The remnant of the duchy, united since i 100 with the rnargraviate of Antwerp, was conferred in 1106 by the emperor Henry V., with the title of duke of Lower Lorraine, upon Godfrey (Godefroid) the Bearded," count of Louvain and Brussels.
The chief city of Brabant, Brussels, became under the Habsburg regime the residence of the court and the capital of the Netherlands.
The important part played by Brabant at this crisis of the history of the southern Netherlands was marked in 1831 by the adoption of the ancient Brabancon colours to form the national flag, and of the lion of Brabant as the armorial bearings of Belgium.
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 Duchy of Brabant - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Brabant, Duchy of, former duchy comprising the present-day provinces of Noord-Brabant (North Brabant) in the Netherlands, and of Antwerpen and...
} The Duchy of Brabant was formally established in 1183/1184.
The title Duke of Brabant was created by the German Emperor Frederick Barbarossa in favour of Henry I of Brabant, son of Godfrey III of...
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  Brabant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
From the 13th century on, the territory of the Duchy of Brabant corresponded approximately to that of the present Dutch province North Brabant and the three Belgian provinces Antwerp, Walloon Brabant and Flemish Brabant.
The Duchy of Brabant was formally erected in 1183/1184.
At the French occupation of the Southern Netherlands in 1795 the duchy of Brabant was dissolved.
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 AllRefer.com - Brabant, duchy of (Benelux History) - Encyclopedia
Brabant, duchy of, former duchy, divided between Belgium (Brabant and Antwerp provs.) and the Netherlands (North Brabant prov.).
The duchy of Brabant emerged (1190) from the duchy of Lower Lorraine.
(For the history of Brabant from 1477 to 1794 see Netherlands, Austrian and Spanish.) Like the rest of the S Low Countries, Brabant owed its extraordinary prosperity during the Middle Ages to its wool and other textile industries and to the commercial enterprise of the inhabitants of its cities and towns.
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 Brabant   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Brabant is a former duchy in the Low Countries.
After the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648, the Netherlands gained independence and the northern part of Brabant was handed to the United Provinces of the Netherlands.
After French occupation, Brabant became part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands (consisting of modern day Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg) at the Congress of Vienna in 1815.
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 a short history of Brabant   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
In 1406 Duchess Johanna of Brabant, was succeeded by Antoon of Burgundy.
During the 16th century the Duchy shared the wealth of its main port Antwerpen, but that was overshadowed by the outbreak of the Eighty Years' War between the Netherlands and the Spanish Habsburgs.
During the rule of Napoleon I Bonaparte, from 1795 - 1814, the remaining southern estates of Brabant were split in the Département de la Dyle (later the Belgian province of Brabant) and the Département des Deux-Nethes (now the Belgian province of Antwerpen).
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 North Brabant: Definition and links.
North Brabant (Dutch: Noord-Brabant) is a province of the Netherlands, located in the south of the country, bordered by Belgium in the south, the Meuse River (Maas) in the north, Limburg in the east and Zeeland in the west.
Until the 17th century, the area that now makes up the province of North Brabant was mostly part of the duchy of Brabant, of which the southern part is in present-day Belgium, although through time several areas have been autonomous entities.
After the Union of Utrecht was signed in 1579, Brabant became a battlefield between the protestant Republic of the Seven United Netherlands and the catholic Spain, which occupied the southern Netherlands.
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 The Low Countries: 5.2 Duchy of Brabant   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
As to the colours of the arms, in 1234 in a Crusade against the Stedingen in East-Frysia, Henry I supposedly used a fl flag, with on the one side the Holy Mary in an aureole, and on the other side a lion or, tongued and nailed gules.
In the Middle Ages, it was occupied by Salic Franks, and was first a part of Austrasia, later of Lorraine, and since the 10th century, it formed the county of Leuven, which became the duchy of Brabant in the 12th century.
In the 13th century, it contained the present-day provinces of Antwerp, Brabant wallon, Northern Brabant and Vlaams-Brabant, and Brussel.
home.online.no /~vlaenen/low_countries/zp-braba.htm   (431 words)

  
 Duchy of Brabant | Europe Travel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The Duchy of Brabant was formally erected in 1183/1184.
The title “Duke of Brabant” was created by the German Emperor Frederick Barbarossa in favour of Henry I of Brabant, son of Godfrey III of Leuven, Duke of Lower Lotharingia.
During the French occupation of the Southern Netherlands in 1795 the duchy of Brabant was dissolved.
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 Flemish Brabant
The duchy of Brabant was at the zenith of its power in the 13th century.
The duchy was divided during the Dutch war of independence, North Brabant becoming a Dutch province and South Brabant remaining under the control of the Spanish.
Brabant became an autonomous Belgian province in 1995, based on the division of the Flemish and Walloon communities.
www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0017971.html   (301 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Brabant   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The title "Duke of Brabant" was created when the counts of Leuven/Louvain acquired the duchy of Lower Lorraine after the death of Godfrey of Bouillon.
In 1430, the Duchy was taken over by Philip the Good of Burgundy, and in 1477 by the Hapsburgs.
The subsequent history of Brabant is part of the history of the Austrian Netherlands and the Spanish Netherlands.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Brabant   (339 words)

  
 The American Brabant Association |
The Brabant draft horse is the foundation horse for the American Belgian.
After World War II the Brabant was bred in Europe to be thicker bodied and more drafty, with heavy feathering on the legs, while in the United States the Belgian was bred to be taller, lighter bodied and clean legged.
Brabants are the heaviest and most docile of all draft horses in the world today.
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 duchy of Brabant — Infoplease.com
The duchy of Brabant emerged (1190) from the duchy of Lower Lorraine.
The dukes of Brabant, who relied on the towns to finance their wars and luxurious lifestyles, granted them virtual self-government and an ever-increasing share in the management of the duchy.
Brabant - Brabant Brabant, former province, central Belgium.
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 Brabant
Brabant is a former province of Belgium, located roughly in the geographical centre of the country, comprising the southern part of the former duchy.
In 1995, it was divided into two provinces, one Walloon (Walloon Brabant) and one Flemish (Flemish Brabant).
Major cities include Halle and Leuven in Flemish Brabant, and Nivelles and Wavre in Walloon Brabant.
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 Veghel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The municipality was officially founded in 1310 when Duke John II of Brabant granted the inhabitants the right to use common grounds.
As a former part of the duchy of Brabant, Veghel is situated in the Meierij of 's-Hertogenbosch.
As a Catholic village, Veghel (like all the other areas of Brabant and Limburg which were transferred to the Netherlands by the Peace of Westphalia) suffered economic and religious oppression from the Protestant Dutch and was counted part of the Dutch military boundary area.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Veghel   (442 words)

  
 Brabant - Enpsychlopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The territory of the Duchy of Brabant corresponded approximately to that of the present Dutch province North Brabant and three provinces and one region of Belgium: Antwerp, Walloon Brabant, Flemish Brabant and Brussels-Capital Region.
The title "Duke of Brabant" was created when the counts of Leuven acquired the Duchy of Lower Lorraine after the death of Godfrey of Bouillon.
In 1430, the Duchies of Brabant and Limburg were taken over by Philip the Good of Burgundy.
www.grohol.com /wiki/Brabant   (479 words)

  
 History .. Middle Ages
The county extends, inter alia, by the conquest of Chièvres, Soignies and Hal, in the Brabant.
The Duchy of the Brabant and the seigniory the Malignant ones
The duchy knows its period of glory under the reign of the duke Jean III After his death, in 1355, the Brabant gives up in the Flanders the supremacy of the Netherlands, and loses Antwerp and the seigniory of Malignant.
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 Van der Heiden Family History
Brabant came under the rule of the Counts of Leuven (Louvain), who enlarged their domain considerably between the 10th and 12th centuries, with the county of Ukkel-Brussel (Uccle-Brussels), the abbeys of Nijvel and Gembloers, and the domains of Antwerpen and Orthen, later 's-Hertogenbosch (Bois-le-Duc).
Wilhelmina Van den Asseldonk was born _____________, at ______________, Province of North Brabant, Netherlands, the daughter of ______________ and _____________ (________) Van den Asseldonk.
Hendrina Van Nistelroy was born _____________, at ______________, Province of North Brabant, Netherlands, the daughter of ______________ and _____________ (______________) Van Nistelroy.
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 Dukes of Brabant
The predecessor to Brabant was the duchy of Lower Lorraine that had been created in 959.
This duchy included the larger part of Belgium and parts of western Germany but it soon disintegrated into smaller counties and duke of Lower Lorraine became a meaningless title.
The house of Valois-Burgundy acquired Brabant through marriage 1406 and it was inherited by Filips the Good of Burgundy where after its history is identical with Belgium's.
www.tacitus.nu /historical-atlas/regents/benelux/brabant.htm   (109 words)

  
 ninemsn Encarta - Search Results - Brabant Duchy of
Brabant, Duchy of, former duchy comprising the present-day provinces of North Brabant, Netherlands, and of Antwerp and Brabant, Belgium.
The Treaty of Münster, 1648, established the independence of the Dutch provinces of the Austrian Netherlands, of which Brabant was a part, as the...
The name of the city is probably derived from Broekzelle, a Dutch word meaning “village of the marsh”.
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 BELGIUM-ROOTS Project: The Southern Netherlands (until 1795) - Duchy of Brabant
The peat canals of the Duchy of Brabant
Oude Brabantse Geslachten (Old Lignages from the Duchy of Brabant) by Jozef VanderBiest (+) (uploaded by VVF Dilbeek)
The Duchy of Brabant (JacobAertsz' De Vyerighe Colom)
belgium.rootsweb.com /bel/bel_ar/brabant   (148 words)

  
 Meierij   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The Meierij van 's-Hertogenbosch (Bailiwick of Bois le Duc) was one of the four parts of the former duchy of Brabant, the others being the areas of Louvain, Brussels and Antwerp.
The capital city of North Brabant and the most important city of the Bailiwick is 's-Hertogenbosch.
From now the former Brabant and Limburg areas were placed under the reign of the generality as well as Zeeuws-Vlaanderen which had been taken from Flanders.
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 Francia Media:  Lorraine & Burgundy
To the east, Upper Lorraine bordered on Alsace, part of the Duchy of Swabia, on the south, the Free County of Burgundy, and on the west, Champagne.
The Duchy proper came to be the equivalent of the Duchy of Brabant, and the Low Countries developed their own identity, especially as possessions of the Valois Dukes of Burgundy.
Brabant eventually fell to the Dukes of Burgundy, along with Flanders, a fief of France, and other former fiefs of Lower Lorraine, Hainault, Holland, Limburg, Namur, and Luxemburg.
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 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Duchy of Brabant
Brabant, Duchy of, former duchy comprising the present-day provinces of Noord-Brabant (North Brabant) in the Netherlands, and of Antwerpen and...
Brabant, the name of two provinces in central Belgium, Flemish Brabant and Walloon Brabant.
Brabant: picture of horse developed in Brabant area
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 braben
In the 11th century, the Duchy of Brabant had been founded by the union of several counties under the rule of the Count of Louvain.
Brabant, at the limit between two languages and two cultures, was for centuries an area with exchanges of populations.
This can be observed by the mixing of surnames on both sides of the "language border", as well as in the marriages between those communities, which is the case in my family's origins.
home.tiscali.be /raymond.herbigniaux/braben.htm   (472 words)

  
 North Brabant Province (The Netherlands)
During the Dutch Republic the Staten of Brabant continued the lion as arms of Brabant.
In the 13th century, it contained the present-day provinces of Antwerp, Brabant Walloon, Northern Brabant and Vlaams-Brabant, and Brussels.
As to the colours of the arms, in 1234 in a Crusade against the Stedingen in East-Frisia, Henry I supposedly used a fl flag, with on the one side the Holy Mary in an aureole, and on the other side a lion or, tongued and nailed gules.
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 Regional History Centre Tilburg / 2. Origin of the borders   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
That same family, probably originating from the South Brabant area from a place called Landen, where one of the old-established centres of the Carolingian 'domestic estates' was situated, owned the 'Ter Rijt' estate in West Tilburg.
The rising of the Netherlands against their sovereign Philip II actally became the fall of the old Duchy of Brabant.
The pre 1795-border was restored for the greater part as the border between the province of North Brabant on the one hand and the provinces of Antwerp and Limburg on the other hand, resulting in the new state border after 1831.
rhc.tilburg.nl /receptie/histb/chapter02.htm   (1049 words)

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