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The Southern Netherlands (Dutch language: Zuidelijke Nederlanden, Spanish language: Países Bajos del Sur, ) were a part of the Low Countries controlled by Spain (Spanish Netherlands, 1579-1713), Austria (Austrian Netherlands, 1713-1794) and captured by France (1794-1815). This region comprised most of modern Belgium (except the prince-bishopric of Liège, which was an autonomous part of the Holy Roman Empire) and Luxembourg (including the homonymous present Luxembourg, province of Belgium) as well as, before 1581, the present Netherlands, and until 1678, most of the present Nord-Pas-de-Calais region in northern France.

Their place in the broader Netherlands As they were very wealthy, the Netherlands in general were a jewel in the ever debt-burdened Habsburg crown, but unlike others of the Habsburg dominions, they were led by a merchant class. It was the merchant capitalism which made them wealthy and the Spanish attempts at over-taxation, to pay for Habsburg wars#fn_1, which was a major factor in their proud defence of ancient privileges. This together with resistance to the religious intolerance of the staunchly Roman Catholic Spanish monarchy led to a general rebellion of the Netherlands against Spanish rule in the 1570s. Although the northern seven provinces, led by Holland and Zeeland, established their independence as the United Provinces after 1581, the southern Netherlands were reconquered by the Spanish general Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma. The Southern Netherlands passed to the Austrian Habsburgs after the War of the Spanish Succession in the early 18th century. Under Austrian rule, the provinces' defense of their ancient privileges proved as troublesome to the reforming Emperor Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor as it had to his ancestor Philip II of Spain two centuries before, leading to a major rebellion in 1789-1790. The Austrian Netherlands were ultimately lost to the French Revolutionary Wars, and annexed to France. Following the war, Austria's loss of the territories was confirmed, and they were joined with the northern Netherlands as a single kingdom under the House of Orange at the 1815 Congress of Vienna.

The Congress first joined the Southern Netherlands to the United Kingdom of the Netherlands under the House of Orange-Nassau, but with the south-eastern third of Luxembourg Province made into the autonomous Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, because it was claimed by both the Netherlands and Prussia.

In 1830 the predominantly Roman Catholic southern half became independent as the Kingdom of Belgium (the northern half being predominantly Calvin). The autonomy of Luxembourg was recognised in 1839, but an instrument to that effect was not signed until 1867. The King of the Netherlands was Grand Duke of Luxembourg until 1890, when William III of the Netherlands was succeeded by his daughter, Queen Wilhelmina - but Luxembourg still followed the Salic law at the time, which forbade a woman to rule in her own right, so the union of the Dutch and Luxembourger crowns then ended. The north-western two-thirds of the original Luxembourg remains a province of Belgium. The flags of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg () and of the Kingdom of the Netherlands () are still distinguished only in the tint of their colours (although the former is not derived from the latter).

Spanish Netherlands (1547) as depicted in The Cambridge Modern History Atlas (1912); Habsburg lands are shaded green. From 1556 the lands in a line from the Netherlands, through to the east of France, to the south of Italy, Sardinia, and Sicily were retained by the Spanish Habsburgs.The Spanish Netherlands (Dutch: Spaanse Nederlanden, Spanish: Países Bajos españoles) in broad sense were the Seventeen Provinces, that came under Habsburg rule after 1482. After 1556 they were under the Spanish Habsburg branch. The northern provinces separated from Habsburg rule during the Eighty Years' War (1568-1648) and became the independent Dutch Republic after the Oath of Abjuration of 1581. The southern provinces remained under Habsburg rule and formed the Spanish Netherlands in strict sense.

The Spanish Netherlands originally consisted of the whole of the

• county of Flanders, including French- and Walloon Flanders
• county of Artois
• city of Tournai
• Cambrai
• (As a rough guide, the territory concerned which now lies in France is the département of Nord (département) and the northern half of Pas-de-Calais.)
• duchy of Luxembourg
• duchy of Limburg
• county of Hainault
• county of Namur
• lordship of Mechelen (officially a county since 1490)
• duchy of Brabant
• the Upper Quarter (Bovenkwartier) of the duchy of Guelders (around Venlo and Roermond, in the present province of Dutch Limburg)

The capital was Brussels in Brabant.

In the early seventeenth century there was a flourishing court at Brussels, which was under the government of King Philip III of Spain sister Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia of Spain and her husband, Archduke Albert of Austria (1559-1621). Among the artists who emerged from the court of the "Archdukes," as they were known, was Peter Paul Rubens. Under the Archdukes, the Spanish Netherlands actually had formal independence from Spain, but always remained unofficially within the Spanish sphere of influence, and with Albert's death in 1621 they returned to formal Spanish control, although the childless Isabella remained on as Governor until her death in 1633.

The failing wars intended to regain the 'heretical' Northern Netherlands meant significant loss of (still mainly Catholic) territories in the north, which was consolidated in the 1648 Westphalian peace, and given the peculiar, inferior status of Generality Lands (jointly ruled by the United Republic, not admitted as member provinces) : Zeeuws-Vlaanderen (south of the river Scheldt), the present Dutch province of Noord-Brabant and Maastricht (in the present Dutch province of Limburg).

In the wars between the French and the Spanish in the Seventeenth century, the territory of the Spanish Netherlands was repeatedly nipped at. The French annexed Artois and Cambrai by the Treaty of the Pyrenees of 1659, and Dunkirk, France was ceded to the English. By the Treaties of Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (1668) (ending the War of Devolution in 1668) and Treaty of Nijmegen (ending the Franco-Dutch War in 1678), further territory up to the current Franco-Belgian border was ceded, including most of Walloon Flanders (around the city of Lille), as well as much of county of Hainaut (including Valenciennes). In the later War of the Reunions, and the Nine Years War France annexed other parts of the region.

Austrian Netherlands Under the Treaty of Utrecht (1713), following the War of the Spanish Succession, what was left of the Spanish Netherlands was ceded to Austria and thus became known as the Austrian Netherlands. However, the Austrians themselves generally had little interest in the region (aside from a short-lived attempt by Emperor Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor to compete with British and Dutch trade through the Ostend Company), and the fortresses along the border (the Barrier Fortresses) were, by treaty, garrisoned with Dutch troops. The area had, in fact, been given to Austria largely at British and Dutch insistence, as these powers feared potential French domination of the region.

Throughout the latter part of the eighteenth century, the principal foreign policy goal of the Habsburg rulers was to exchange the Austrian Netherlands for Bavaria, which would round out Habsburg possessions in southern Germany. The Austrian Netherlands rebelled against Austria in 1788 as a result of Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor centralizing policies. The different countries established the United States of Belgium (January 1790). Austrian imperial power was restored by Joseph's brother and successor, Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor by the end of 1790.

French annexation After the French Revolution, in 1794 the entire region (including territories that were never under Habsburg rule, like the Bishopric of Liège) was overrun by France ending the existence of this territory as Spanish/Austrian Netherlands. This was resisted by the Flamingant movement organized by Roman Catholic clergy. It became an integral part of France, and was divided into départements:

• Deux-Nèthes
• Dyle (département)
• Escaut (département)
• Forêts
• Jemmape (département)
• Lys (département)
• Meuse-Inférieure
• Ourte
• Sambre-et-Meuse

Austria confirmed the loss of its territories by the Treaty of Campo Formio, in 1797.

After the defeat of Napoleon in 1815 the region was given to the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, however after the Belgian Revolution of 1830 it separated and became the independent state of Belgium.

See also

• List of Governors of the Spanish Netherlands
• List of plenipotentiaries of Austrian Netherlands
• Seventeen Provinces
• Union of Atrecht (Including map, 1579)
• Spanish Armada

Footnote

• #fn_1_back The example of these expensive wars which is best known to English-speaking people is that of the Spanish Armada. However, that came in 1588, a little after the Dutch had become exasperated to the extent of signing the Union of Utrecht in 1579.

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