Spanish Netherlands

It's not like, "Oh, okay, fine, you know, I don't, you know, we're having no kids, you know, off you, off you scuttle back to Spain." It's, it is a completely- It has European ramifications.

It upsets the pope, which then means that means that all the good Catholic countries such as, uh, France and Spain, and don't, don't forget that Spain also at this point controls the, what we would call now the low countries, which will become the Spanish Netherlands, which is France and Belgium, um, that gives them the justification to put a large army basically within a couple hours sailing of, of, of, of England.

It, it is an absolute- so Henry is really up against it with this one.

It's not a popular move, and he needs all the, he needs a crew behind him.

But around the corner from the cathedral, up a slight incline, is Brussels Park.

It was built in the ruins of the park of the Dukes of Burgundy and the governors of the Spanish Netherlands.

The park stands proudly between the federal parliament and the royal palace, which are both symbols of power and monarchy.

So the architects knew what they were doing and the landscapers too.

Upon James's accession, however, either to clear himself of all suspicion of abetting a pretender to the throne, or as some have asserted, to thwart the new king's design of having his nephew seized and sent a prisoner to England, William procured his departure from Dutch territory.

Monmouth retired to Brussels, but at the instance of James, who wrote a letter to the governor of the Spanish Netherlands charging him with high treason, he was ordered by that functionary to quit the king of Spain's dominions and return to Holland.

Then followed his ill-fated enterprise, throughout the brief course of which William maintained an attitude of strict loyalty toward his father-in-law.

He not only dispatched the six English and Scotch regiments in the Dutch service to assist in suppressing the insurrection, but he offered, if James wished, to take command of the royal troops in person.

Even that most patient of people showed signs of disaffection.

Louis made private overtures to the States-General with the intention, of course, of his proposals being brought to the ear of William.

Through the neutral King of Denmark he signified his willingness to restore all the conquests he had made during the present war, to renounce his pretensions to the Low Countries, and to agree that the Elector of Bavaria should have the Spanish Netherlands in case of the death of the King of Spain, and that the commercial arrangements of Europe should be put on their old footing.

The great crux of the negotiations, and of all negotiations with a similar object, was, and was known to be, the question of the recognition or non-recognition of the de facto King and Queen of England.

The exotic tubers first brought to Europe by explorers and conquerors coming back from South America in the 1500s were considered inedible for centuries.

In Belgium, the story is that fried potatoes also originated in Spain in the 16th century and were brought north to a region called the Spanish Netherlands, which is near modern-day Belgium.

There, in the 17th century, fishermen who struck out at sea would carve potatoes into fish shapes and fry them up for a stand-in supper.

Panayi is the author of Fish and Chips: A History.

So she goes to different locations in France, and then she is sent to the Low Countries.

More specifically, she is sent to present-day Belgium, which was then known as the Spanish Netherlands.

because long story the netherlands had come into the possession of the spanish royal family long time prior to that but although france was kind of at peace the low countries were at war with spain And actually, that war is known as the Eighty Years' War.

Protestants declared their independence from Spain and their independence from the Roman Catholic Church.

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the state of those roads however though contemporaries described it as dangerous beyond all example did not deter men of rank and fashion from making the joyous pilgrimages to newmarket half the dukes in the kingdom were there most of the chief ministers of state swelled the crowd nor was the opposition unrepresented montague stole two or three days from the treasury and orford from the admiralty godolphin was there looking after his horses and his bets and probably went away a richer man than he came but racing was only one of the many amusements of that festive season on fine mornings there was hunting for those who preferred hawking choice falcons had been brought from holland on rainy days the cockpit was encircled by stars and blue ribbons on sundays william went to church and state and the most eminent divines of the neighbouring university of cambridge preached before him he amidst a dull opportunity of showing marked civility to taillard the ambassador informed his court that his place at table was next to the royal arm-chair and that his health had been most graciously drunk by the king all this time both at kensington and newmarket the spanish question was the subject of constant and earnest discussion to trace all the windings of the negotiation would be tedious the general course which it took may easily be described the object of william was to place the electoral prince at bavaria on the spanish throne to obtain the consent of lewis to such an arrangement seemed all but impossible but william manoeuvred with rare skill though he frankly acknowledged that he preferred the electoral prince to any other candidate he professed himself desirous to meet as far as he honourably or safely could the wishes of the french king there were conditions on which england and holland might perhaps consent though not without reluctance that a son of the dauphin should reign at madrid and should be master of the treasures of the new world these conditions were that the milanese and the two sicilies should belong to the archduke charles that the elector of bavaria should have the spanish netherlands that louis should give up some fortified towns in artois for the purpose of strengthening the barrier which protected the united provinces and that some important places both in the mediterranean sea and in the gulf of mexico should be made over to the english and dutch for the security of trade minorca and havana were mentioned as what might satisfy england chapter twenty three of a history of england

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