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In Belgium, the title of Duke of Brabant ( historically the most prestigious in the Low Countries, and containing the federal capital Brussels ), if still vacant, has been awarded preferentially to the eldest son and heir presumptive of the king, other male dynasts receiving various lower historical titles ( much older than Belgium, and in principle never fallen to the Belgian crown ), such as Count of Flanders ( King Leopold III's so-titled brother held the title when he became the realm's temporary head of state as prince-regent ) and Prince of Liège ( a secularised version of the historical prince-bishopric ; e. g., the present King Albert II until he succeeded his older brother Baudouin I ).
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Ridder, Dutch for " knight ", is a hereditary noble title in the Netherlands and Belgium.
European dynasties usually awarded apanages to princes of the blood, typically attached to a feudal noble title, such as Britain's royal dukes, the Dauphin in France, the Count of Flanders in Belgium, and the Count of Syracuse in Sicily.
In 1995, Lorenz received the additional title of Prince of Belgium.
After Belgium and the Netherlands separated in 1830, the title of duke no longer existed in the Netherlands.
The proper title of the Belgian monarch is King of the Belgians rather than " King of Belgium ".
The title " King of the Belgians " indicates a popular monarchy linked to the people of Belgium ( i. e., a living and hereditary Head of State ; yet ratified by popular will ), whereas the former would indicate standard constitutional or absolute monarchy linked to territory or state.
In contrast to King Albert II's title, King of the Belgians, Prince Philippe is called Prince of Belgium, not Prince of the Belgians, a title that does not exist.
This title precedes the title Prince of Belgium.
Members of the Royal Family hold the title Prince ( Princess ) of Belgium with the style of Royal Highness.
In Belgium, the title " psychologist " is protected by law since 1993.
The Cathedral of Alcalá is notable as one of only two churches in the world to be granted the special title " Magistral " ( along with St. Peter's Church in Leuven, Belgium ).
The show is also broadcast on Swedish commercial channel Sjuan, in the Netherlands by public broadcaster KRO, Belgium on VRT channel Canvas and in Finland on the Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE using the name " Hiljainen todistaja ", which is a direct translation of the original title.
One of the first examples was the unofficial use of the title " grand duke " by the dukes of Burgundy during the 15th century, when they ruled a vast tract of modern day eastern France as well as most of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg.
He added the title ' Queen of Peace ' to her Litany, and gave his support to an understanding of Mary as Mediatrix of All Graces ( by approving a Mass and office under this title for the dioceses of Belgium ) and affirmed that " together with Christ she redeemed the human race " by her immolation of Christ as his sorrowful mother ( in his apostolic letter Inter sodalicia ).
The city compensated for this by increased attention in the religious arena: in 1559 it was proclaimed the Archdiocese of Mechelen, for Belgium not sharing this title with Brussels until 1961.
He retained that title a couple of times before losing it to Radu porcul de banciu by a decision in 15 at Brussels, Belgium.
Soon, he went back to Belgium and re-took the title by beating Delannoit, also by decision.
Belgium and Duke
The most influential of Severn's early Italian genre paintings are The Vintage, commissioned by the Duke of Bedford in 1825, and The Fountain ( Royal Palace, Brussels ) commissioned by Leopold I of Belgium in 1826.
* October 25 – Princess Elisabeth of Belgium, daughter of Prince Philippe, Duke of Brabant
Napoleon was finally defeated by the Duke of Wellington and Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher at Waterloo in present-day Belgium on 18 June 1815.
* In Philippa Gregory's 2009 novel The White Queen, the young Duke of York is sent into hiding in Tournai, Belgium by his mother, Elizabeth Woodville, while a changeling is sent to the Tower.
The German Emperor Wilhelm II, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, Grand Duke Ernest Louis of Hesse, Duke Charles Edward of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and Duke Ernst August of Brunswick were Edward's nephews ; Queen Victoria Eugenia of Spain, Crown Princess Margaret of Sweden, Crown Princess Marie of Romania, Crown Princess Sophia of Greece, Empress Alexandra of Russia, Grand Duchess Alexandra of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and Duchess Charlotte of Saxe-Meiningen were his nieces ; Haakon VII of Norway was both his nephew by marriage and his son-in-law ; George I of Greece and Frederick VIII of Denmark were his brothers-in-law ; Albert I of Belgium, Charles I and Manuel II of Portugal, and Tsar Ferdinand of Bulgaria were his second cousins.
Laurent-Perrier's advertisements in late 1890 boasted their Champagne was the favourite of King Leopold II of Belgium, George I of Greece, Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Margaret Cambridge, Marchioness of Cambridge, and John Lambton, 3rd Earl of Durham, among other nobles, knights, and military officers.
* Baudouin, Duke of Brabant, Count of Hainaut, Prince of Belgium, who became the fifth King of the Belgians as Baudouin, born at Stuyvenberg on the outskirts of Brussels on 7 September 1930, and died at Motril, Spain on 31 July 1993.
* Léopold Philippe Charles Albert Meinrad Hubertus Marie Miguel, Duke of Brabant, Prince of Belgium, who became later the fourth king of the Belgians as Leopold III ( born 3 November 1901, and died at Woluwe-Saint-Lambert on 25 September 1983 ).
Baudouin was born in Stuyvenberg Castle, near Laeken, Brussels, in Belgium, in 1930, the son of Prince Leopold, the Duke of Brabant and his wife, Astrid of Sweden.
She is the wife of His Imperial and Royal Highness Archduke Lorenz of Austria-Este, Archduke of Austria, Duke of Modena, Prince Royal of Hungary and Bohemia, whom she married on 22 September 1984 and who was created a Prince of Belgium in 1995.
Through them are descended a number of European royalty, among them Queen Sofía of Spain, Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, King Albert II of Belgium, Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein, and Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg.
* Prince Philippe, Duke of Brabant, heir to the throne of Belgium
Her great-grandsons are King Harald V of Norway and King Albert II of Belgium ; her great-great-grandsons are King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden and Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg ; her great-great-granddaughter is Queen Margrethe II of Denmark.
His godparents were Queen Victoria ( his paternal grandmother ), King Christian IX of Denmark ( his maternal grandfather, represented by his brother Prince Johann of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg ), King Leopold I of Belgium ( his great great-uncle ), the Dowager Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg ( his maternal great-grandmother, for whom the Duchess of Cambridge stood proxy ), the Duchess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha ( his great-aunt by marriage, for whom the Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz stood proxy ), the Landgrave of Hesse ( his maternal great-grandfather, for whom Prince George, Duke of Cambridge, stood proxy ), the Crown Princess of Prussia ( his paternal aunt, for whom The Princess Helena, her sister, stood proxy ) and The Prince Alfred ( his paternal uncle ).
And through Princess Joséphine-Charlotte of Belgium, she is great-grandmother of a fourth one: Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
These were granted to the first Duke as victory titles for his distinguished services as victorious commanding general in the Peninsular War ( in Spain and Portugal ) and at the Battle of Waterloo ( in what is now Belgium ).
* Duke of Brabant ( Kingdom of Belgium ); does not automatically descend by primogeniture, e. g., never held by Albert, Prince of Liège after his childless brother became king
Pozzo assisted at the Congress of Vienna, and during the Hundred Days he joined Louis XVIII in Belgium, where he was also instructed to discuss the situation with the Duke of Wellington.
* Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders was the heir presumptive of his older brother king Leopold II of Belgium after the death of his nephew Prince Leopold, Duke of Brabant until his own death in 1905.
Her godparents were her grand-aunt in law Queen Adelaide, her grand-uncle King Leopold I of Belgium, her paternal grandfather Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha ( for whom The Duke of Wellington, Tory Leader in the Lords, stood proxy ), her maternal grand-uncle The Duke of Sussex, her maternal grand-aunt The Duchess of Gloucester and her maternal grandmother The Duchess of Kent.
Belgium and Brabant
* The Duchy of Brabant, a duchy of the Holy Roman Empire between 1183 – 1648 covering parts of the Netherlands and Belgium, ruled over by the Dukes of Brabant
* Province of Brabant, Belgium, which in 1995 was split up into two provinces and an autonomous region:
Most of the county's territory became part of an independent Belgium in 1830, and during the 19th and 20th centuries, it became increasingly commonplace to refer to the entire Dutch-speaking and northern part of Belgium as " Flanders ", including the Belgian parts of the Duchy of Brabant and Limburg.
Now, Flanders extends over the northern part of Belgium, including the Belgian parts of the Duchy of Brabant and Limburg.
An important centre of learning and training for Irish priests developed in Leuven ( Lúbhan in Irish and Louvain historically in English ) in the Duchy of Brabant, now in Flanders ( northern Belgium ).
* Foundation of the city of Brussels: a ' castrum ' on an island on the river Senne ( Brabant, Belgium ).
* Linden, Belgium, a town in the municipality of Lubbeek, Flemish Brabant
To get the total area of Belgium, the surface of the Brussels-Capital Region should be added to the list, since Brussels is not in any Belgian province anymore since the province of Brabant has been split.
Flemish Brabant ( Dutch Vlaams-Brabant, French Brabant flamand ) is a province of Flanders, one of the three regions of Belgium.
Leuven ( Dutch, pronounced ;, pronounced, often used in English, ) is the capital of the province of Flemish Brabant in the Flemish Region, Belgium.
Walloon Brabant (, Dutch:, ) is a province of Wallonia in Belgium.
* Leuven or Louvain, the capital of the province of Flemish Brabant in the Flemish Region, Belgium
It borders on ( clockwise from the north ) the Netherlands, Germany, Luxembourg, and in Belgium the provinces of Luxembourg, Namur, Walloon Brabant ( Wallonia ), and those of Flemish Brabant and Limburg ( Flanders ).
At the time of the creation of Belgium, only nine provinces existed, until 1995 when Brabant was split into two provinces and the Brussels-Capital Region.
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