History of the Netherlands

A common misperception is that once Roman influence ended by 476 CE, the European continent went into a dark abyss with ... Read more

Philip the Bold and his wife Margaret ruled Flanders for twenty years from 1384-1404 and during that time would expand t... Read more

Today we are taking you on an epic adventure, being passed from hand to hand and from group to group, throughout medieva... Read more

The disintegration of Charlemagne’s empire at the end of the 9th century left the lowlands part of a larger entity, Loth... Read more

Friesland was an autonomous anomaly in Europe, free from the feudal obligations that had so deeply entrenched themselves... Read more

In the latter half of the 8th century, events and circumstances around Europe become vastly influenced by a man who rule... Read more

The last few episodes have focused heavily on the “Game of Thrones” layer of history; that’s to say, nobles killing each... Read more

We break away from the main chronology of the series a little bit, to zoom out and re-focus on one particular topic: how... Read more

By the mid-1300s the fractured mini-states of the lowlands were being pulled apart by competing political and economic i... Read more

Freed from the need to be working the land due to the improvements in agriculture discussed in episode 6, people in the ... Read more

For the last 12 months we have been working on an artwork for Amsterdam Light Festival #8. The theme this year is 'Disru... Read more

At the end of the first decade of the 1400s, everything seemed to be going peachy for John the Fearless, the Duke of Bur... Read more

In the late 1200s many of the trends and forces that we've been exploring, such as feudalism, urbanisation and industria... Read more

In the latter half of the 14th century, a series of technological developments as well as ripe social and economic condi... Read more

Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, kicked off a dynasty that would forever change the Low Countries. After his marriage ... Read more

On September 23, 1408, a combined allied army of the duke of Burgundy, the count of Holland, and the bishop-elect of Liè... Read more

At this stage in our journey through the History of the Netherlands we have emerged into the 1300s: a century which for ... Read more

Today we are going to break the pattern of the last few episodes and make the outrageous move of not talking about Belgi... Read more

The Flemish victory over the French at the Battle of the Golden Spurs led to a vast change in social structures, but tha... Read more

On his death-bed in 1417, William VI, Count of Hainault, Holland and Zeeland, named his daughter Jacqueline of Bavaria a... Read more