It changed hands between the Habsburg Netherlands and France several times, until it was assigned to France by the 1659 Treaty of the Pyrenees.
Deeply disappointed, he entered into the disastrous Burgundian Wars and was killed in the Battle of Nancy.
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After the extinction of the Spanish Habsburgs and the War of the Spanish Succession, the southern provinces were also known as the Austrian Netherlands from 1715 onwards.
The situation was further complicated by acquisitive desires of Emperor Rudolph II and the Wettin dukes of Saxony — the former particularly worrying to Henry IV of France and the Dutch Republic, who feared any strengthening of the Habsburg Netherlands.
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From inside prison he also made connections to several prominent persons, all the way up to the governor of Habsburg Netherlands and Duke of Alba, Fernando Álvarez de Toledo.
Jean Taisner (Taisnier) (Latin: Johannes Taisnerius; 1508, Ath, Habsburg Netherlands – 1562, Cologne) was a priest.
The conflict between the Spanish King Philip II and the Dutch rebels in the Spanish-ruled Habsburg Netherlands, culminating in the Eighty Years' War, symbolized the prominent European power struggle of the 16th century between Catholics and Protestants.
Alexander Farnese, Prince of Parma (1635–1689), governor of the Habsburg Netherlands