Spanish Netherlands

Spanish Netherlands
Spaanse Nederlanden (Dutch)
Países Bajos Españoles (Spanish)
Spanische Niederlande (German)
Spuenesch Nidderlanden (Luxembourgish)
Pays-Bas Espagnols (French)
Belgica Regia (Latin)
1556–1714
Motto: Plus Ultra
"Further Beyond"
Spanish Netherlands (yellow) and the principality of Liege (red) in 1599
Spanish Netherlands (yellow) and the principality of Liege (red) in 1599
StatusPersonal union of Imperial fiefs within Empire
CapitalBrussels
Common languages
Religion
Roman Catholicism (State religion)
Protestantism
GovernmentGovernorate
Governor 
• 1556–1559
Emmanuel Philibert (first)
• 1692–1706
Maximilian Emanuel (last)
Historical eraEarly Modern period
1556
1568–1648
30 January 1648
1683–1684
15 August 1684
1688–1697
1701–1714
7 March 1714
Population
• 1700
1,794,000[3]
CurrencyGulden, Spanish reales
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Habsburg Netherlands
Dutch Republic
Austrian Netherlands
Today part of

Spanish Netherlands (Spanish: Países Bajos Españoles; Dutch: Spaanse Nederlanden; French: Pays-Bas espagnols; German: Spanische Niederlande) (historically in Spanish: Flandes, the name "Flanders" was used as a pars pro toto[4]) was the Habsburg Netherlands ruled by the Spanish branch of the Habsburgs from 1556 to 1714. They were a collection of States of the Holy Roman Empire in the Low Countries held in personal union by the Spanish Crown. This region comprised most of the modern states of Belgium and Luxembourg, as well as parts of northern France, the southern Netherlands, and western Germany with the capital being Brussels. The Army of Flanders was given the task of defending the territory.

The Imperial fiefs of the former Burgundian Netherlands had been inherited by the Austrian House of Habsburg from the extinct House of Valois-Burgundy upon the death of Mary of Burgundy in 1482. The Seventeen Provinces formed the core of the Habsburg Netherlands which passed to the Spanish Habsburgs upon the abdication of Emperor Charles V in 1556. When part of the Netherlands separated to form the autonomous Dutch Republic in 1581, the remainder of the area stayed under Spanish rule until the War of the Spanish Succession.

  1. ^ Bander, James (1 December 2014). Dutch Warships in the Age of Sail 1600-1714: Design, Construction, Careers & fates. Seaforth Publishing. p. 51. ISBN 978-1-84832-157-1. Retrieved 11 January 2024.
  2. ^ Preston, Rupert (1974). The Seventeenth Century Marine Painters of the Netherlands. F. Lewis. p. 88. ISBN 978-0-85317-025-9. Retrieved 11 January 2024.
  3. ^ Demographics of the Netherlands Archived 2011-12-26 at the Wayback Machine, Jan Lahmeyer. Retrieved on 20 February 2014.
  4. ^ Pérez, Yolanda Robríguez (2008). The Dutch Revolt through Spanish eyes: self and other in historical and literary texts of Spanish Golden Age (c. 1548–1673) (Transl. and rev. ed.). Oxford: Peter Lang. p. 18. ISBN 978-3-03911-136-7. Retrieved 5 April 2016.

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