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Charles V abdicated in 1556 and decreed that the territories of the Burgundian Circle should be held by the Spanish Crown.

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From 1512 the Provinces formed the major part of the Burgundian Circle.

There were a number of fiefdoms in the Low Countries that were not part of the Seventeen Provinces, mainly because they did not belong to the Burgundian Circle but to the Lower Rhenish-Westphalian Circle.

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As part of the Burgundian Circle, the Spanish Netherlands were subject of a special defence guarantee by the Empire, according to the agreement of Augsburg of 1548 between the Empire and Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor ( who was also King of Spain ).

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This should not to be confused with so-called " Whole-Netherlandism " or Burgundism or even Burgundi-Hinduism ( after the historical Burgundian Circle ), whose aim is to establish a " Whole-Netherlands " ( Heel-Nederland ).

This term has been hijacked by the Belgicists, who created the " Whole-Netherlandism " ideology or Burgundism, whose aim is a so-called " Whole-Netherlands " ( Heel-Nederland ) combining all the Low Countries into a single multilingual entity This would unite, not the territories in which Dutch people live, but all of Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands ( which would be similar to the former United Kingdom of the Netherlands ) and Northern France, most likely Nord-Pas de Calais ), along the lines of the historical Burgundian Circle ), creating a Greater Belgium.

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Vintages in Burgundian Circle | Burgundy

Combined with the Landen van Overmaas ( the lands beyond the Meuse: Dalhem, Herzogenrath and Valkenburg ) and Maastricht, the duchy became one of the Seventeen Provinces held by the Habsburgs within the Burgundian Circle established in 1512.

All others, including Burgundian and Vandalic, are known, if at all, only from proper names that survived in historical accounts, and from loan-words in other languages like Spanish and French.

The Duke of Burgundy had assembled a large territory, including his native duchy and the Burgundian Netherlands.

With the help of the Old Swiss Confederacy, they routed the Burgundian army and captured three capes of the of the Golden Fleece which belonged to Charles the Bold including one with the emblems of Philip the Good, his father.

The Chardonay from Le Clos Jordanne placed first out of the 14 white wines, some of which were notable international wines, including: Chateau Montelena, Mer Soleil, Kumeu River, an aged reserve wine from Rosemount Estates, and a number of Burgundian entrants from producers such as Drouhin, Lamy, Boisset, Jadot and others.

Clovis, his son Theuderic I, and his Burgundian allies proceeded to conquer most of Visigothic Gaul, including the Rouergue ( 507 ) and Toulouse ( 508 ).

The Anglo-Burgundian army mustered about 4, 000 men, including 1500 ( 500 English and 1000 Burgundian ), 2000 English archers, some Burgundian crossbowmen and pioneers and 40 veuglaires ( light artillery ), manned by the citizens of Auxerre.

The Burgundian Ordonnance army was a formidable combined-arms force relying on close cooperation between heavily armored knights, dismounted men-at-arms, a variety of ranged troops including archers and crossbowmen, and an early form of field artillery.

Maximilian however regarded the Burgundian Netherlands including Flanders and Artois as the undivided domains of his wife and himself and marched against the French.

When the last Burgundian duke Charles the Bold died at the Battle of Nancy on 5 January 1477, his territories in France including Burgundy proper, Flanders, Artois and the Picardy were seized as reverted fiefs by the French king.

Maximilian's wife had inherited the vast Burgundian domains in France and the Low Countries upon her father's death in the Battle of Nancy on 5 January 1477.

In view of French claims raised to Maximilian's Burgundian heritage, the 1512 Diet initiated the official use of the name Holy Roman Empire of ( the ) German Nation () in its Final Act.

In her testament, Mary of Burgundy had bequested the Burgundian heritage to her and Maximilian's son, Philip the Handsome.

" In chronicles, poems, sermons, even in legal documents, an immense sadness, a note of despair and a fashionable sense of suffering and deliquescence at the approaching end of times, suffuses court poets and chroniclers alike: Huizinga quotes instances in the ballads of Eustache Deschamps, " monotonous and gloomy variations of the same dismal theme ", and in Georges Chastellain's prologue to his Burgundian chronicle, and in the late fifteenth-century poetry of Jean Meschinot.

The precise division of Francia into a Neustrian, Austrasian, and Burgundian kingdom dates only from the late sixth century, so earlier kings who ruled from Soissons or Paris are here excluded.

Amsterdam remained loyal to the Spanish / Burgundian empire until relatively late in the eighty years war, which allowed the city a lot of trade opportunities, but made it unsuitable for the seat of government of the emerging ' rebel ' state.

* Aliénor de Poitiers who documented the etiquette of the Burgundian Court in the late 15th century.

In Europe plate armour reached its peak in the late 15th and 16th centuries, with the full suits of Gothic plate armour worn on the battlefields of the Burgundian and Italian Wars.

The few things known about him can be read in a hagiographic source, the Vita domni Willelmi in fourteen chapters written by his disciple, the Burgundian monk Raoul Glaber in 1031, and revised probably by demand of the later Abbot John of Fécamp during the late 11th century.

He was the leading figure of the late Burgundian school after the death of Guillaume Dufay.

His thirty chansons show a diversity of style, some being rather similar to the late Burgundian style ( for example, as seen in Hayne van Ghizeghem or Gilles Binchois ), and others using the more current imitative polyphonic style.

In the late 15th century, the Zytglogge and the other Bernese gate towers were extended and decorated after the Burgundian Romantic fashion.

Many of the most famous musicians in Europe either came from Burgundy, or went to study with composers there ; in addition there was considerable interchange between the Burgundian court musical establishment and French courts and ecclesiastical organizations in the late 15th century.

The Burgundian style gave birth to the Franco-Flemish style of polyphony which dominated European music in the late 15th and early 16th centuries.

His son, the last Burgundian duke Charles the Bold, in 1473 annexed the Duchy of Guelders, which had been pawned by late Arnold of Egmond.

Claudio Pari ( 1574 – after 1619 ) was a Sicilian composer, of Burgundian birth, of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras.

Fauxbourdon ( also Fauxbordon, and also commonly two words: Faux bourdon or Faulx bourdon ) – French for false bass – is a technique of musical harmonisation used in the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance, particularly by composers of the Burgundian School.

The wine is produced by picking the Savagnin as ripe as possible, in some cases becoming a sort of late harvest wine, and after fermentation storing it in Burgundian aging barrels for over 6 years.

By late in the 15th century the Burgundian style was subsumed into the larger stream of Franco-Flemish music.