← Explore on the interactive map
Flanders Revolt
In the 1330s tensions grew in the County of Flanders between city guilds, the textile merchant class, and the count under French overlordship;…
Timeline
- 1335–1336Ghent · FlandersIn Flanders' textile centers such as Ghent and Bruges, wealthy guilds and merchant classes demanded greater autonomy and opposed Count Louis I's higher taxes and pro-French policies. Tensions between urban privilege traditions and the count's centralizing efforts grew increasingly sharp.
- 1337Bruges · FlandersAfter the outbreak of the Anglo-French Hundred Years' War, Flanders' wool trade faced French-English blockades and policy choices. Some cities leaned toward English wool supply and markets, opposing the count's adherence to King Philip VI of France, and protests and armed standoffs emerged within the cities.
- 1338Ypres · FlandersCount Louis I, with French royal support, suppressed the urban resistance, and some city leaders were punished or exiled. The unrest temporarily subsided, but Flanders' stance in the war remained unresolved, laying the groundwork for larger-scale conflict in the 1340s.
Sources
- The County of Flanders in the Late Middle Ages — David Nicholas (1992)
- Flanders https://www.britannica.com/place/Flanders