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From King and Country to King or Country? Loyalty and Treason in the Revolt of the Netherlands: Read at the Society's Conference 10 September 19811

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 February 2009

Alastair Duke
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The ‘seventeen Netherlands’ owed their existence entirely to the energies of their rulers. Until 1548 when this hotchpot of duchies, counties and lordships was united in the Burgundian circle of the Empire, the boundaries of the Low Countries had expanded or contracted according to the military and diplomatic fortunes of their princes: there was nothing natural or inevitable about them. Charles V had, for example, threatened to annexe the prince-bishopric of Münster in 1534–5, as he had added Utrecht only a few years earlier. Nor can the incorporation of the duchy of Gelre in 1543 be considered the outcome of an ineluctable historical process. Since the late fifteenth century the rulers in the Low Countries had sought to assert their control over the duchy. But there had been times when it seemed as though Gelre, which looked Januslike both up and down the Rhine, might, in combination with Jülich and Cleves, have constructed a formidable anti-Habsburg constellation into whose orbit a large part of the northern Netherlands would be drawn.

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Transactions of the Royal Historical Society , Volume 32 , December 1982 , pp. 113 - 135
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102 In 1587 Gerard Prouninck van Deventer published a pamphlet in which he sought to mitigate the wave of anti-English sentiment in the Union of Utrecht after William Stanley and Roland York's treachery at Deventer by listing the Netherlands nobles, who had ‘betrayed’ the towns and provinces entrusted to their care (Bor, , Oorsprongk, II, 883)Google Scholar.

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