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Lotharingia

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by Simon Winder

and Bohemia

  become Habsburg–Lorraine dynasty

  and the Hohenzollerns

  as Holy Roman Emperors

  and the Thirty Years War

  and William the Silent

  Habsburg Netherlands see Spanish (Habsburg) Netherlands

  Haeseler, Gottlieb, Graf von

  Hagenau (Haguenau)

  Hainaut

  halberds

  Handgunners, Guild of

  Hanover, Electorate of

  Hanover, Kingdom of

  Hanseatic League (‘Easterlings’)

  Hastings, Battle of (1066)

  Hauser, Kaspar

  Hebel, Johann Peter

  Hecker, Friedrich

  Heidelberg

  Heiliger Sand (Jewish cemetery), Worms

  Hein, Admiral Piet

  Henri, Count of Chambord (‘Henri V’)

  Henri of Orléans, Prince

  Henry, Count of Speyer

  Henry, Émile

  Henry I, Duke of Brabant and Lower Lotharingia

  Henry I ‘the Fowler’

  Henry II, King of England

  Henry III, Count of Nassau and Lord of Breda

  Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor

  Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor

  Henry IV, King of France

  Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor

  Henry V, King of England

  Henry V, King of France

  Henry VII, King of England

  Henry VIII, King of England

  Henry Frederick, Prince of the Palatinate

  heresy

  Hergé (Georges Remi)

  Herrad of Landsberg, The Garden of Delights

  Herzl, Theodor

  Herzog, Werner

  Hesdin, palace at

  Hesse, Electorate of

  Hesse, Hermann

  Hesse-Darmstadt, Grand Duchy of

  Hildegard von Bingen

  Himmler, Heinrich

  Hindenburg Line

  Hitler, Adolf

  rise to power

  hoards

  Hoefnagel, Joris

  Hogarth, William

  The Gate of Calais

  Hohenstaufen dynasty

  Hohenzollern dynasty

  Holbein, Hans

  Dances

  Holland, Counts of

  palace of

  Holland, County of

  Amsterdam

  Anglo-Russian invasion (1799)

  colonies

  ‘Burgundian Circle’

  and England

  and France

  floods

  Marvell on

  and Oldenbarnevelt

  Spanish

  Treaty of Ribemont (880)

  Holland Deep, Dordrecht

  Holy Roman Empire

  and Amsterdam

  and Belgium

  Charles V

  end of

  and France

  and the Golden Bull (1356)

  and Joseph II

  and Leopold II

  and Lorraine

  Lotharingia

  and Napoleon

  and the Ottoman Empire

  Peace of Augsburg (1555)

  and Protestantism

  and the Swabians

  and the Swiss

  and the Thirty Years War

  Hoorn, Philip de Montmorency, Count of

  Hortus Botanicus, Leiden

  Hospice of St Brice, Tournai

  Hospices de Beaune

  Hospital of the Countess, Lille

  Hubert, St

  Hudson’s Bay Company

  Hugh, Duke of Alsace

  Hugh Capet, King of the Franks

  Huis Doorn

  Humanist Library, Schlettstadt

  Humboldt, Alexander von

  Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester

  Hundred Years War

  Hus, Jan

  Hussites

  iconoclasm

  Île-de-France

  Imperial Free Cities

  Indutiomarus

  Irene, Eastern Roman Empress

  Ironmongers, Guild of

  Isabella I, Queen of Castile

  Isabella of France

  Isabella Clara Eugenia, Governor of the Netherlands

  Isle of Portland

  Italian Wars (1521–6)

  Italy

  and Austria

  and Charles VIII

  and the Holy Roman Empire

  and the First World War

  and Lothair I

  and the St Gotthard Pass

  Spanish Road

  unification

  Ivens, Joris

  ivory, Congo

  Jacqueline of Holland

  James I & VI, King of England and Scotland

  James II & VII, King of England and Scotland

  Japan

  land grab (1941–2)

  Jean I, Duke of Lorraine

  Jemappe, Department of

  Jemappes, Battle of (1792)

  Jerusalem

  Jesuits

  Jesus

  Jews

  and the Black Death

  massacres

  Spanish

  see also anti-Semitism

  Joan, Countess of Flanders

  Joan of Arc

  Joanna (‘the Mad’), Queen of Castile

  Joffre, General Joseph

  Johann Wilhelm, Duke of Jülich-Kleve-Berg

  John, King of England

  John I, King of France

  John I of Chalon-Arlay

  John II, King of France (John the Good)

  John III, Duke of Bavaria

  John III, Lord of Chalon-Arlay (John I of Orange)

  John IV, Duke of Brabant

  John IV, Lord of Chalon-Arlay

  John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy

  Crusade (1396)

  death

  Duke John Dike, Scheldt

  and France

  Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor

  Josephine, Empress

  Juan, Prince of Asturias

  Jülich, Duchy of

  Julius Caesar

  Justinus of Nassau

  Jutta von Sponheim

  Kalamazoo, Michigan

  Karlsruhe, Baden

  Kawahara Keiga

  Keith, George,th Earl Marischal

  Kelmis

  Kettle War (1784)

  Kilomètre

  Klemens Wenzeslaus, Archbishop-Elector of Trier

  Kleve, Duchy of

  Kleve (Cleves)

  Kleve Crisis

  Knights Hall, The Hague

  Koblenz (Coblence)

  Konstanjevica, Monastery of

  Konstanz (Constance)

  Konstanz, Council of (1417)

  Konstanz, Lake

  Kortrijk

  Kortrijk, Battle of (the Battle of the Golden Spurs) (1302)

  Kusumoto Ine

  Kusumoto Tagi

  la Tour, Georges de

  Lamormaini, Wilhelm

  Lang, Fritz, Die Nibelungen (film, 1924)

  Latin language

  Lausanne Cathedral

  Lausberg, Widow

  Lawrence, St

  Lawrence, D. H.

  Lawrence, Sir Thomas

  Le Havre

  Le Petit Journal

  League of Augsburg, War of the (1688–97)

  Lechfeld, Battle of (955)

  Leclerc (de Hautecloque), Philippe

  Leeuwenhoek, Antonie van

  Leicester, Robert Sidney,st Earl of

  Leiden

  Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

  Leopold, Duke of Lorraine

  Leopold, Grand Duke of Baden

  Leopold I, Duke of Austria

  Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor

  Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor

  Leopold II, King of Belgium

  Leopold III, Duke of Austria

  Leopold III, King of Belgium

  Leopold Clement, Hereditary Prince of Lorraine

  Leopold Wilhelm, Archduke


  Leopold-Eberhard, Duke of Württemberg-Montbéliard

  Les Invalides, Paris

  Leszczyn´ski, Stanisław, King of Poland

  Leuven

  Leuven, Battle of (891)

  Leuven, Catholic University of

  Lichtveld, Lou

  Liège, Bishopric of

  Liège, Bishops of

  Liège, Count of

  Liège, Republic of

  Liège Cathedral

  Lille

  Cathedral

  Lille, Battle of (1940)

  Lille, Siege of (1667)

  ‘Limesprogramm’

  lingua romana

  Lisle, Claude Joseph Rouget de, ‘Marseillaise’

  Lochner, Stefan

  Locke, John

  Lohnhof, Basle

  London

  Long Turkish War (1593–1606)

  Longbowmen, Guild of

  Lörrach

  Lorraine

  and Charles the Bold

  Habsburg ally

  part of France

  part of Germania Inferior

  part of Reichsland Elsaß-Lothringen

  Spanish Road

  see also Alsace-Lorraine; Lotharingia

  Lorraine, Duchy of

  Lorraine, Dukes of

  chapel of

  Lothair I, Holy Roman Emperor

  Lothair II, Holy Roman Emperor

  Lotharingia, Duke of

  Lotharingia (Middle Francia)

  absorption by East Francia

  absorption by the Holy Roman Empire

  and Flanders

  geographical definition

  and religion

  see also Belgium; Lorraine; Luxembourg, Grand Duchy of; Netherlands; Swiss Confederation, northern part

  Louis I ‘the German’, King of East Francia

  Louis I ‘the Pious’, King of the Franks

  Louis II, Duke of Bourbon

  Louis II, Lord of Chalon-Arlay, Prince of Orange

  Louis III, King of France

  Louis VII, King of France

  Louis X, King of France

  Louis XI, King of France

  Louis XIII, King of France

  Louis XIV, King of France

  Louis XV, King of France

  Louis XVI, King of France

  Louis XVIII, King of France

  Louis XIX, King of France

  Louis Bonaparte (Louis I of Holland)

  Louis of Mâle, Count of Flanders

  Louis Napoléon, Prince Imperial (‘Lou-Lou’)

  Louis of Nassau

  Louis Philippe I, King of the French

  Louisiana

  Louvain (Leuven)

  Louvre Museum, Paris

  Low Countries

  and Albrecht Dürer

  and the Black Death

  and religion

  and the Second World War

  see also Belgium; Luxembourg; Netherlands

  Ludendorff, General Erich

  Ludwig I, Grand Duke of Baden

  Ludwig VI (Louis VI), Elector Palatine

  Ludwig Wilhelm, Margrave of Baden

  Luke, St, Guild of

  Lunéville (Lünstadt)

  Luther, Martin

  Lutheranism

  Lutyens, Sir Edward

  Luxembourg

  Luxembourg, Grand Duchy of

  Luxembourg City

  Luzern (Lucerne)

  Luzern, Lake

  Maastricht

  Maastricht, Siege of (1673)

  Maastricht, treasury of

  Mackensen, August von

  Madeira

  Madrid

  Magdeburg

  Maginot, André

  Maginot Line

  Main, River

  Mainz (Mayence)

  Mainz, Archbishop of

  Mainz, Republic of

  Mainz Cathedral

  Udenheimer Crucifix

  Malmédy

  Malplaquet, Battle of (1709)

  Man, Cornelis de: The Anatomy Lesson

  Mannheim

  Mansfeld-Eisleben, Agnes von

  map-tables, Lille

  Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Savoy

  Margaret of Bavaria

  Margaret of Burgundy

  Margaret of Flanders

  Margaret of York

  crown

  Maria de Ágreda

  Maria of Austria

  Maria of Brandenburg-Kulmbach

  Maria Feodorovna (Sophie Dorothea of Württemburg), Empress Consort of Russia

  Maria Theresa, Holy Roman Empress

  Marie Antoinette, Queen of France

  Marie of Baux-Orange

  Mark, County of

  Market Garden, Operation (1944)

  Marne, Battle of the (1914)

  Mars-la-Tour, Battle of (1870)

  Martel, Charles

  Marvell, Andrew

  Marx, Jenny

  Marx, Karl

  Mary, Mother of Jesus

  cult of

  Mary I, Queen of England

  Mary II, Queen of England

  Mary of Hungary

  Mary ‘the Rich’ of Burgundy

  Maulbronn Abbey

  Maurice, Prince of Orange (Maurice of Nassau)

  Maurice, Prince Palatine of the Rhine

  Mauritius

  Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor

  Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor

  May Uprising, Baden (1849)

  Mayer van den Bergh Museum, Antwerp

  Mechelen (Malines)

  Cathedral

  ‘Mechelen plan’

  Mehmet the Conqueror, Sultan

  Mélac, Ezéchiel du Mas, Count of

  Menin Gate

  Mennonites

  Merovingian dynasty

  Metsijs, Quinten: The Lamentation

  Metternich, Clemens, Prince von

  Metz

  Metz Cathedral

  Metz railway station

  Meuse, River

  Meuse–Argonne offensives

  Mexico

  Michelangelo

  microscopy

  Middelburg

  Mikhailovna, Elizabeth, Grand Duchess

  missionaries, Congo

  Mithraism

  Mohács, Battle of (1687)

  monarchy

  elected

  French

  German

  hereditary

  monasteries

  Mondrian, Piet

  Mongols

  monks

  Monnet, Jean

  Mons

  Mons, Siege of (1691)

  Mont-Tonnerre, Département du

  Montbéliard (Mömpelgard)

  Montereau

  Montezuma

  Montlhéry, Battle of (1465)

  Montreux

  ‘moresca’ (dance)

  Morgarten, Battle of (1315)

  mosasaurs

  Moselle, River

  Mulhouse

  Munich Conference (1938)

  Münster

  Murten, Battle of (1476)

  Musée des Beaux Arts, Antwerp

  Musée des Beaux Arts, Lille

  Musée des Beaux Arts, Tournai

  Musée Grévin, Paris

  Museum by the River (MAS), Antwerp

  Museum of Lorraine, Nancy

  Muslims

  and the Crusades

  European raids

  invasion of France

  Namur

  Namur, County of

  Namur, Siege of (1695)

  Nancy (Nanzig)

  mausoleum of the Dukes of Lorraine

  Nancy, Battle of (1477)

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  crowns himself Emperor of the French

  and the fall of the Western Roman Empire

  and the Porta Nigra

  spectre of

  Napoleon III, Emperor of the French

  Napoleonic Wars (1803–15)

  Nassau

  Nassau, Counts of

 
Nassau, Grand Duchy of

  National Herbarium, Brussels

  nationalism

  Nations, Battle of the (1812)

  Nazi Party

  Nazism

  Neanderthals

  Nebuchadnezzar, King

  Neerwinden, Battle of (1793)

  Nether Rhine River

  Netherlands, Kingdom of the

  and Albrecht Dürer

  and Amsterdam

  and Baarle-Hertog

  and Belgium

  and Britain

  and Charlemagne

  and England

  and the First World War

  and flooding

  and France

  and Margaret of Austria

  and Neutral Moresnet

  northern

  partitioning (1640s)

  and religion

  St Elizabeth Day floods

  and the Second World War

  and Spain see Spanish (Habsburg) Netherlands

  and the Thirty Years War

  and the Vikings

  wealth

  Zeeland floods (1953)

  see also Austrian Netherlands; Spanish (Habsburg) Netherlands

  Netherlands, United Kingdom of the

  Netherlands university, Leuven

  Neuchâtel (Neuenburg)

  Neuchâtel, Counts of

  Neumann, Johann Balthazar

  Neuss, Siege of (1474–5)

  Neustria

  Neutral Moresnet

  New Middelburg

  New York

  Nibelungenlied

  Nice, County of

  Nicholas I, Tsar of Russia

  Nicholas II, Tsar of Russia

  Nicopolis, Battle of (1396)

  Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm

  Nijmegen

  Nonsuch, Treaty of (1585)

  Normandy

  North Africa

  North America

  North German Confederation

  North Sea

  North Sea Aquarium, Ostend

  Notker the Stammerer

  Notre-Dame de Paris

  nuns

  Nuremberg

  Obelix

  Odenthal valley

  Offenburg fortress

  okapi

  Old Church, Delft

  Old Maas River

  Old Stock Exchange, Lille

  oliphants

  Orange, Principality of

  Ostend

  Ostend, Siege of (1601–4)

  Othée, Battle of (1408)

  Otto, Crown Prince of Austria

  Otto I ‘the Great’, Holy Roman Emperor

  Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor

  Ottoman Empire

  Ottomans

  Ottonian dynasty

  Overijssel

  paganism

  erasure of

  pagan burials

  Palatinate (Pfalz)

  and Bavaria

  and Calvinism

  Protestant Union

  paper

  Paris

  Parma, Alessandro Farnese, Duke of

  Patinir, Joachim

  Paul I, Tsar of Russia

  Pavlovsk Palace, St Petersburg

  Pepin the Short, King of the Franks

  Perry, Commodore Matthew

  Pétain, Marshal Philippe

  Peter the Great, Tsar of Russia

  Peter the Hermit

  Philibert, Lord of Chalon

  Philibert II, Duke of Savoy

  Philip I ‘the Good’, Duke of Burgundy

  Philip I ‘the Handsome’, King of Castile

  Philip II, King of France (Philip Augustus)

 

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