Low Countries
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Sep 19, 2026
Mark SmithNARRATOR
It appears that drinking glasses may have been among the items manufactured.
Mark SmithNARRATOR
The majority of the glass drinking vessels on earth at Jamestown were made in England, although a few were manufactured in Germany, Italy, and the Low Countries.
Mark SmithNARRATOR
In the collection are fragments from goblets, beakers, bowls, and wine-glasses.
Mark SmithNARRATOR
Four of the English wine-glass stems bear maker's seals, rare marks seldom found on English drinking vessels.
JoelHOST
I talked a little bit about this branching of the Protestant thought.
JoelHOST
And meanwhile, you have this area of the world very broadly called the Netherlands or the Low Countries, which has nothing to do with the fact that where Dan and I are sitting is called the Low Country
BrianHOST
in
JoelHOST
the U.S. either.
JoelHOST
That's just because it's swampy here.
BrianHOST
Yeah.
JoelHOST
So in the low countries, then the low countries is kind of what we would broadly think of the Netherlands today plus Belgium.
JoelHOST
At the time, they weren't separate.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
She had been shorn of almost all her outlying possessions.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
The Low Countries had fallen to Austria, together with Milan, Naples, and Sardinia.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Sicily to the Duke of Savoy.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Later an exchange was made between Sardinia and Sicily.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Venice was far the strongest of the cities, having recently recovered from the Turks her dominion in the Morea, though she was soon again to lose it, and still holding some of the Ionian Isles and some of the mainland across the Adriatic.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Italy, with ten governments, was a house divided against itself and helped to make Austria strong without being strong herself.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
The most important item in the Treaty of Utrecht was the transfer from Spain to Austria of the government of the Low Countries or Netherlands, henceforth known as the Austrian Netherlands.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
The Dutch certainly engaged in the War of the Spanish Succession in order that they might themselves be secure against the attacks of France.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
At this time a revolution took place in Flanders which had a special interest for Englishmen.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
The people of the Low Countries were always well affected to the English with whom they were united by commercial interests, but the counts of Flanders favored France.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
In the days of Edward III, the Flemings under James van Artevelde had for some time thrown off allegiance to their count and openly allied themselves with England.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
And now, under the guidance of Philip van Artevelde, the son of their former leader, they in like manner rose against Count Louis II, who was driven out of Ghent, first to Bruges and afterwards into France.
4 HRS 21 MINS LATER
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
His private life had been very discreditable.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
He had married in 1423 the heiress of the Count of Hainaut, a lady who had a husband then alive, and had only been able to obtain a divorce from him by applying to the Antipope Benedict.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
To vindicate his claim to her possessions he had invaded the Low Countries, and by so doing had almost provoked the Duke of Burgundy even then to renounce his alliance with England.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Yet after all he got tired of her and began to take pleasure in the society of another woman called Eleanor Cobham, whom he first made his mistress and afterwards his wife.
Gordon DarrochHOST
because they will now play for Morocco, which is another story.
Gordon DarrochHOST
But in 1610, the Sultan of Morocco signed a treaty of friendship with the Low Countries.
Gordon DarrochHOST
And as part of that process, the Dutch sent him three warships, which the Spanish saw as an escalation.
Gordon DarrochHOST
They expelled even more Muslims from Spain as a retaliation.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
One led west to the Orkneys, the Shetlands, and the coast of Scotland, and then either south to the shores of Ireland, or further west to Iceland, Greenland, and America.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
The other led to the North Sea to England, the Low Countries, and the coast of Gaul.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Both were used, and used freely by the Vikings, and in both directions they accomplished enduring results.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Iceland and the kingdoms of the isles in the north, the beginnings of town life and commerce in Ireland, the Dane law in England, and the duchy of Normandy.
Jen RaimundoNARRATOR
The Spanish government, helpless and drowsy as it was, could not be altogether insensible to the dangers which threatened Flanders and Brabant.
Jen RaimundoNARRATOR
Castanaga was recalled, and William was invited to take upon himself the government of the Low Countries with powers not less than regal.
Jen RaimundoNARRATOR
Philip II would not easily have believed that, within a century after his death, his great-grandson would implore the great-grandson of William the Silent to exercise the authority of a sovereign at Brussels.
Jen RaimundoNARRATOR
The offer was in one sense tempting, but William was too wise to accept it.
Jen RaimundoNARRATOR
A large party among the Episcopalians of England could not forgive him for having consented to the establishment of the Presbyterian polity in Scotland.
Jen RaimundoNARRATOR
A large party among the Presbyterians of Scotland blamed him for maintaining the Episcopal polity in England.
Jen RaimundoNARRATOR
If he now took under his protection masses, processions, graven images, friaries, nunneries, and, worst of all, Jesuit pulpits, Jesuit confessionals, and Jesuit colleges, what could he expect but that England and Scotland would join in one cry of reprobation? He therefore refused to accept the government of the Low Countries, and proposed that it should be entrusted to the Elector of Bavaria.
Jen RaimundoNARRATOR
The Elector of Bavaria was, after the Emperor, the most powerful of the Roman Catholic potentates of Germany.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
But an effort was made to limit her power of aggression.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
In the Low Countries, a strong military state was created by the formation of the Kingdom of the United Netherlands.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
On the Rhine, Prussia replaced the petty principalities and ecclesiastical states and barred the entrance into Germany.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
In the second place, the practical statesmen of Vienna accepted the ambition of governments as a factor in politics.
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Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Of infinitely greater importance was the effect of the revolution on Belgium.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
The kingdom of the United Netherlands had been the chef-d'œuvre of the Congress of Vienna and was in a measure the cornerstone of the political edifice there erected.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
It appeared to solve a problem which had exercised the diplomatic mind of Europe since the decline of Spanish power in the second half of the 17th century by creating an effective barrier against French aggression in the Low Countries.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
And more than this, it seemed to promote the interest of those most concerned.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
In the 5th century the Franks fell into three sections.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
There were the Franks who remained near the cradle lands of the race in Thuringia, those who settled along the middle Rhine and who were called the Ripuarian Franks, and those who moved farther north and occupied those lands north of the Roman province of Gaul that were afterwards called the Low Countries.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Early in the 5th century these northern Franks under a chief named Clodian moved southward and drove the Roman garrison out of Cambrai in 445.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Clodian then seized Tournai, which became the capital of a new Frankish kingdom.
RaineyHOST
For then the sightings trickled across the centuries, almost all from Germany and Central Europe.
RaineyHOST
Scattering from France, the Low Countries, and the Baltic.
RaineyHOST
By one careful count, three are around 57 reliable records in all, most holding between three and a dozen animals, a few reaching into the 30s.
RaineyHOST
In nearly every case, the rats were Rattus Rattus, the old black house rat with the long and supple tail.
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