Bavaria-Straubing 1347-1436
Holland, Zeeland and Friesland, Hainaut, Straubing
Just published, in the Hors série of the " Art et Archéologie " collection of the Revue du Nord (n° 33), a collective work edited by Ludovic Nys (Université Polytechnique Hauts-De-France/ISH, LARSH) and Alain Marchandisse (Université de Liège), supported by LARSH, entitled Les Bavière-Straubing 1347-1436. Holland, Zeeland and Friesland, Hainaut, Straubing.
The fruit of an international collaboration involving German (Stadtarchiv Straubing, University of Kiel), Dutch (University of Groeninge, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam), Belgian (University of Liège, Université Saint-Louis de Bruxelles, Conseil d'héraldique de la Communauté française de Belgique) and French (University of Lille, Université polytechnique Hauts-de-France (Valenciennes), Université de Tours), this book, which focuses on Hainaut in the last centuries of the Middle Ages, covers a decisive period in our history, on the eve of the Burgundian and early modern periods. The panorama that emerges, resolutely trans-European, features several territorial entities of the former Netherlands (Hainaut, Holland, Zeeland and Friesland) and the confines of the Danube (Niederbayern) that saw their fates linked as a result of the second marriage of Emperor Louis IV of Bavaria († October 11, 1347) and a young Hainuyère princess native to Valenciennes or Le Quesnoy, Marguerite d'Avesnes.
