Lincoln fled the English court on 19 March 1487 and went to the court of Mechelen ( Malines ) and his aunt, Margaret, Duchess of Burgundy.

Tip-bearers on the other hand produce most of their fruit buds at the tips of slender shoots grown the previous summer, and include the apples Worcester Pearmain and Irish Peach, and the pears such as Jargonelle and Josephine de Malines.

Mechelen ( locally pronounced, French Malines, English traditional name Mechlin ) is a Dutch-speaking city and municipality in the province of Antwerp, Flanders, Belgium.

Even then it was not obligatory, for the Bull " Quod a nobis " of the same pope merely recommends it earnestly, like the Office of Our Lady and the Penitential Psalms, without imposing it as a duty ( Van der Stappen, " Sacra Liturgia ", I, Malines, 1898, p. 115 ).

With a vocation in commerce, he parted around 1477 for Flanders, settling in Malines where he joined the business of Jorius van Dorpp, a vendor of clothing.

Further delaying tactics resulted in the train only getting as far at Mechelin / Malines that evening and then diverting to Muizen for water replenishment.

Although Marguerite and Gaston had re-celebrated their marriage before the Archbishop of Malines, a French emissary persuaded the pope not to protest the matter publicly, and Gaston formally accepted the nullity of his marriage.

Honorius supported the claims of William of Malines, the new Archbishop of Tyre who claimed jurisdiction over some of the sees that had traditionally belonged to Bernard of Valence, the Patriarch of Antioch.

The pope sent a legate back to Palestine with instructions that Bernard was to acquiesce and that the various bishops were to submit to William of Malines within forty days.

As archbishop of Tyre, he is sometimes known as William II to distinguish him from a predecessor, William of Malines.

File: Mechelsesteenweg kontich. jpeg | Postcard picturing " Chaussée de Malines, Mechelsesteenweg " from around 1900

Between 1921 and 1925 a series of unofficial conferences, known as the Malines Conversations, presided over by Cardinal Mercier and attended by Anglican divines and laymen, including Lord Halifax, was the most significant of early attempts at the reconciliation between the Anglican and Roman Catholic Churches.

Writing to his uncle, Leonhard Behaim ( September 18, 1478 ), he expressed his desire not to return to Malines and wanted to improve his commercial skills.

In the late 1800s a group of concerned dog fanciers under the guidance of Prof. A. Reul of the Cureghem Veterinary Medical School gathered foundation stock from the areas around Tervuren, Groenendael, Malines, and Laeken in Belgium.

The first batch was printed in Malines, Belgium followed by numerous reprints in Athens until 1900.

Thereafter, Jews were transferred to the Mechelen ( Malines ) transit camp in Belgium, or deported directly to the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp in Nazi-occupied Poland.

l ' archevêque de Malines ( 1869 ), containing a clear exposition of the historical arguments against the doctrine of papal infallibility.

) c1040-1095 was the son of Ralph, Lord of Alost near Ghent, and Gisele of Luxembourg who had an older brother named Baldwin, and another named Ralph.

Immediately after her wedding, she journeyed with her stepdaughter Mary through Flanders, Brabant and Hainaut, visiting the great towns: Ursel, Ghent, Dendermonde, Asse, Brussels, Oudenaarde and Kortrijk were all impressed by her intelligence and capability.

* East Flanders ( B ): Oudenaarde, Ghent, Dendermonde, Temse

During the Reformation, the people of Oudenaarde chose Protestantism and allied themselves with Ghent against Charles V. In 1582, after a prolonged siege by Margaret's son, Alexander Farnese, the city finally gave in, causing most merchants, workers, and even nobles to flee.

She spent her childhood in Oudenaarde and moved to Ghent, during her teens to study languages.

Born around World War II in Wortegem-Petegem ( between Oudenaarde and Ghent ), East Flanders, Naessens grew up in a modest family.

In addition to going to the coronation, he made excursions to Cologne ( where he admired the painting of Stefan Lochner ), Nijmegen ,'s-Hertogenbosch, Bruges ( where he saw Michelangelo's Madonna of Bruges ), Ghent ( where he admired van Eyck's altarpiece ), and Zeeland.

The main waterways are the Albert Canal connecting Antwerp to Liège, the Ghent – Terneuzen Canal through the port of Ghent connecting Ghent with the Westerschelde, the Boudewijn Canal through the port of Bruges-Zeebrugge connecting Bruges with the North Sea, the Brussels-Charleroi Canal, Brussels-Scheldt Maritime Canal and Scheldt connecting Charleroi to Antwerp, the Nimy-Blaton-Péronnes Canal and Scheldt connecting the Borinage to Antwerp, the connection between the North Sea and Antwerp and the connection between Dunkerque and Liège via the Nimy-Blaton-Péronnes Canal, the Canal du Centre, the lower Sambre and the Meuse.

During the late Middle Ages, Flanders ' trading towns ( notably Ghent, Bruges and Ypres ) made it one of the richest and most urbanized parts of Europe, weaving the wool of neighbouring lands into cloth for both domestic use and export.

The wool industry, originally established at Bruges, created the first European industrialized zone in Ghent in the High Middle Ages.

Around this time the center of political and social importance in the Low Countries started to shift from Flanders ( Bruges – Ghent ) to Brabant ( Antwerp – Brussels ), although Ghent would continue to play an important role.

** The E40: connects Ghent with Bruges and Ostend to the west, and with Brussels, Leuven and Liège to the east.

Meanwhile the army marched by Cassel, Ypres and Bruges, before laying siege to Ghent.

* June 24 – The leaders of Ghent, Bruges and Ypres agree to support Edward III.

In this period, many cities, including Ypres, Bruges and Ghent gained independence.

Especially during the Burgundy period ( the 15th and 16th centuries ), Ypres, Ghent, Bruges, Brussels, and Antwerp took turns at being major European centers for commerce, industry ( especially textiles ) and art.

* link = European route E40-: Calais – Bruges – Ghent – Brussels – Leuven-Liège-Eupen – Aachen – Cologne – Olpe – Wetzlar – Gießen-Bad Hersfeld-Eisenach – Erfurt – Gera – Chemnitz – Dresden – Görlitz – Legnica – Wrocław – Opole – Gliwice – Zabrze-Katowice – Kraków – Rzeszów – Jarosław – Korczowa – Lviv – Rivne – Zhytomyr – Kiev – Kharkiv – Luhansk – Volgograd – Astrakhan – Atyrau – Beyneu – Qo ‘ ng ‘ irot – Nukus – Daşoguz – Bukhara – Navoiy – Samarkand – Jizzakh – Tashkent – Shymkent – Zhambyl – Bishkek – Almaty – Sary-Ozek – Taldykorgan – Ucharal – Taskesken – Ayagoz – Georgiyevka – Oskemen – Ridder

The Count of Flanders controlled a number of old Roman cities ( Boulogne, Arras, Cambrai ) as well as some founded by the Carolingians ( Valenciennes, Saint-Omer, Ghent, Bruges ).

Indeed, Flemish and Walloon economies differ in many respects ( consider for instance Eurostats and OECD statistics ), and cities like Brussels, Antwerp, Liège, Bruges, Charleroi or Ghent also exhibit significant differences.

In this he was aided by the expansion of the Three Members-a parliament consisting of representatives from the towns of Bruges, Ghent and Ypres-to the Four Members through the addition of the rural area Franc of Bruges

The center of prosperity moved from cities in the south such as Bruges, Antwerp, Ghent, and Brussels to cities in the north, mostly Holland, including Amsterdam, The Hague, and Rotterdam.

At the end of the 14th century, Bruges became one of the Four Members, along with Franc of Bruges, Ghent and Ypres.

During the greater part of the 15th century, the centres in which the painters of the Low Countries most congregated were Tournai, Bruges, Ghent and Brussels.

Not until the beginning of the 16th century did Antwerp take the lead which it afterward maintained against Bruges, Ghent, Brussels, Mechelen and Leuven.