The list of Counts of Flanders contains the owners of the County of Flanders .
The county emerged from the old Roman pagus Flandrensis , which had belonged to the West Franconian Empire since the Frankish division of Verdun in 843 . Probably in the year 864, the West Franconian King Charles the Bald entrusted his son-in-law Baldwin I. Eisenarm with the pagus from which the county of Flanders developed in the course of the Middle Ages. The county belonged to France through the Middle Ages until it was ceded to the Holy Roman Empire in 1525 . In 1801 the historic province of Flanders was again assigned to France, and in 1815 to the United Kingdom of the Netherlands . It has belonged to the Kingdom of Belgium since 1830 .
also Roman-German Emperor (Karl V) also King of Spain (Karl I.)
In the Peace of Madrid in 1525, France was forced to give up supremacy in Flanders in favor of the Holy Roman Empire . In the Augsburg Treaty of 1548, Flanders was united with the other sixteen Dutch provinces to form a constitutional unit within the Burgundian Empire , which was to be ruled by a sovereign prince.
In 1555, Emperor Charles V awarded the Netherlands to his descendants in Spain. In 1581 the seven northern provinces separated to form the Republic of the Seven United Provinces . Flanders remained with Habsburg, see: Spanish Netherlands (1555–1714)
In the Rastatt Peace the ten Dutch provinces, including Flanders, were assigned to the Austrian Habsburgs. See: Austrian Netherlands (1714–1797 / 1801)
In the Peace of Campo Formio in 1797, Habsburg ceded the Austrian Netherlands to France. In 1801, in the Peace of Lunéville, the provinces, including Flanders, were finally ceded from the Holy Roman Empire to France.
During the Belgian Revolution of 1830, the Catholic provinces separated from the Kingdom of the Netherlands and founded the Kingdom of Belgium , to which the historic province of Flanders has belonged ever since.
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Today the Count of Flanders ( Comte de Flandre or Graaf van Vlaanderen ) is a title of nobility in the Kingdom of Belgium, which refers to the historical county of Flanders. The title has so far been awarded twice to members of the Belgian royal family.
The title of Count of Flanders was ascribed ad personam and was not hereditary (royal decrees of 1840, 1891 and 1910). This title was assigned to the second son of the king.
