The main architects were the Flemings Hans Hendrik van Paesschen and Anthonis van Obbergen, whereas the sculptural work was coordinated by Gert van Groningen.

Among them were many Englishmen, Germans and Flemings, who were afterwards induced to settle in Portugal.

A prominent example of these were the Flemings that fought during the English civil wars, known as the Anarchy or the Nineteen-Year Winter ( AD 1135 to 1154 ), under the command of William of Ypres, who was King Stephen's chief lieutenant from 1139 to 1154 and who was made Earl of Kent by Stephen.

[...] I was with Robert of Normandy's company and a mongrel lot we were, Britons, Normans, Flemings, Scots, Bretons-name them, they were there!

In the Middle Ages, the principal users of the pike were urban militia troops such as the Flemings or the peasant array of the lowland Scots.

A Fleming, Wizo, who died in 1130 founded at Wiston a motte and bailey fortification, forerunner of the stone castle, for protection against the Welsh warlords: the Flemings were reportedly unpopular wherever they settled.

The predominant ethnic group were the Flemings, but early burgesses were also English, French and German.

The Flemings found themselves on the wrong side in the 16th century, when they supported Mary, Queen of Scots, and their lands were given over to the Elphinstone family.

From Flanders, Luc Van der Kelen responded by saying that he was glad that the Flemings were welcome, but he did not like the idea of a merger.

The first explicit documentary evidence is that of Gerald of Wales and Brut y Tywysogyon, which record that " Flemings " were settled in south Pembrokeshire soon after the arrival of the Normans in the early 12th century.

In the early 12th century, grants of lands were made to Flemings by Henry I when their country was flooded, and later they were joined by Flemish soldiers banished by Henry II.

The first settlers of Santa Cruz were mainly Spaniards that accompanied Ñuflo de Chávez, as well as Guarani natives from Paraguay, and Flemings, Portuguese, Germans and Italians working for the Spanish crown.

This soon came to a head when the princes of the blood, eager to fight the Flemings, were disappointed by his negotiating a peace in September.

By December, the Flemings were ready to formally join the anti-French coalition.

The Flemings were organized into SS Volunteer Verband Flandern.

Its strength was 1, 100 men, of who 1, 000 were Flemings, including 14 officers.

The Flemings felt a jealousy that their French speaking countrymen, the Walloons, were granted as a title their home region for the 5th SS-Volunteer Sturmbrigade Wallonien.

The men of Cologne and the Flemings, meanwhile, were indignant because the King seemed to be favoring the hostages.

We were midway between the King's camp and theirs, still talking and waiting, and we reported to the King what was being prepared, The Flemings ' leaders, Christian and the Count of Aerschot, although they were barely armed, put a stop to the tumult among their men as soon as they learned of it.

This was the seat of the Flemings of Slane, barons of Slane.

The Flemings moved to a castle on the left bank of the River Boyne, the current location of Slane Castle.

Prior to this, Slane Castle had been in the possession of the Flemings, Anglo-Norman Catholics who had aligned themselves with the Jacobites in the War of the Grand Alliance, and thus after the Williamite victory, their property was eligible for confiscation.

Modern Germanic peoples are the Scandinavians ( Norwegians, Swedish, Danish, Icelanders, and Faroese ), Germans, Austrians, Alemannic Swiss, Liechtensteiners, Luxembourgers, the Dutch, Flemings, Afrikaners, Frisians, the English and others who still speak languages derived from the ancestral Germanic dialects.

The state was formed by secession from the United Kingdom of the Netherlands in 1830, whose neutrality and integrity was protected by the Treaty of London 1839 ; thus it served as a buffer state between the European powers France, Prussia ( after 1871 the German Empire ), the United Kingdom and the Kingdom of the Netherlands until World War I. Belgium is divided between the Flemings in the north and the French-speaking or the German-speaking population in the south.

As the king was in the North, a number of the Flemings returned home without proceeding further than London, but Paon de Ruet was one of those who remained in England in the retinue of Philippa of Hainaut, accompanying the young queen in her departure from Valenciennes to join her youthful husband Edward III in England at the close of 1327.

The first permanent settlement was established in May 1855 with the arrival of the Flemings and the George Knettles from Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.

The Flemings, said to have arrived in three groups in 1107, 1111 and 1151, are likely to have participated in its later development for their own and the Normans ' protection from the Welsh warlords.

The precarious position of Normans and Flemings was demonstrated in 1136 when the Normans, having already lost 500 men in battle at Loughor, re-recruited from Lordships from all over South Wales and led by Robert fitz Martin at Crug Mawr near Cardigan attacked Owain Gwynedd and his army.

Ranulf Higden in his Polychronicus records the Flemings as extinct in Pembrokeshire by 1327 but Flemish mercenaries reappear in 1400 when at the behest of Henry IV they joined an army of 1500 English settlers who marched north from Pembrokeshire to attack the army of Owain Glyndŵr at Mynydd Hyddgen.

The Flemings assaulted from landward but the English resistance was stubborn.

In December 1940 the Germania Regiment would be removed from the Verfügungs-Division and used to form the cadre of a new division, SS-Division Germania, comprising mostly " Nordic " volunteers from the newly-conquered territories, Danes, Norwegians, Dutch and Flemings ; it was soon renamed Wiking.

Apart from a brief reunification from 1815 until 1830, within the United Kingdom of the Netherlands ( which included the Francophones / Walloons ) the Dutch have been separated from the Flemings to this day.

The farms had developed from the Fleming estate, the Flemings being the ruling family in the area, living at Cumbernauld Castle, who acquired the area after Robert the Bruce killed the previous laird, Red Comyn.

After he had taken surety from them and had finally quieted the Flemings down, the King ordered them to put down their arms, asserting roundly that he would put off the siege until the next day.

The Flemings again rose under Philip van Artevelde and expelled him from Flanders after the Battle of Beverhoutsveld ; however, the influence of Philip procured a French army to relieve him, and the Flemings were decisively defeated at the Battle of Roosebeke.

From 12th to 14th century, large numbers of Germans and Flemings settled the area ( Ostsiedlung ), importing German law and improved agricultural techniques.

Toorians suggests that the name entered Britain during the large settlement of Flemings in Wales in the early 12th century.

The Flemings built Boghall Castle, visible as a ruin until the early 20th century, but now only represented by a few mounds.

The Flemings grafted Italian mannerisms on their own stock, and the cross turned out so unfortunately that for a century Flemish art lost all trace of originality.

In the twentieth century, Flemings focusing its overseas energies on Asia and Africa.

Laurence Minot, writing in the early fourteenth century, wrote patriotic poems celebrating Edward III's military victories against the Scots, French, Bohemians, Spaniards, Flemings and the Genoese.