Dominion Friesland
The rule of Friesland (nl. Heerlijkheid Friesland ) was a feudal glory in the Netherlands . It was created in 1524 when Charles V conquered Friesland and ended in 1795 with the establishment of the Batavian Republic .
history
Since 1515 Friesland has belonged to the Burgundian district . In the course of the Saxon feud against Edzard I of East Frisia , George the Bearded Friesland conquered and sold it to the future ruler Charles V. The Frisian governor ruled over Overijssel from 1528 and also over Groningen and Drenthe from 1536 .
In 1580, most of the territory joined the Union of Utrecht and was named "Herrschaft Friesland". Since then the governors have belonged to the House of Orange . From this circumstance, the Orange later derived their claim to rule over the Netherlands including Friesland.
With the Peace of Munster in 1648, the rule was a recognized member of the Republic of the Seven United Provinces .
In 1795 Friesland belonged to the Batavian Republic, which meant the end of the rule of Friesland. The area was divided up in 1798 and assigned to two different departments. In 1802 both parts were united to form the department of Friesland. When the Kingdom of Holland, which had existed since 1806, was annexed by France in 1810, this department was converted into the French department of Frize , which became the province of Friesland in 1814 .
area
The glory consisted of the representatives of the 30 Frisian "Grietenijen", the forerunners of the later municipalities, and the Frisian eleven cities : Stavoren (1118), Harlingen (1234), IJlst (1268), Leeuwarden (1285), Dokkum (1298 ), Bolsward (1455), Hindeloopen (1372), Franeker (1374), Workum (1399), Sloten (1426) and Sneek (1456).
The territory is similar to that of today's province of Friesland. The area is to be distinguished from the West Frisian area, which the Counts of Holland conquered in 1289, and the county of East Frisia , which remained with the empire.
literature
- Jonathan Israel: The Dutch Republic. Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall 1477-1806. Clarendon, Oxford 1995, ISBN 0-19-873072-1 .
- Jan AF de Jongste: An alliance of seven sovereign provinces. The Republic of the United Netherlands. In: Thomas Fröschl (Ed.): Federation models and union structures. About state connections in the early modern period from the 15th to the 18th century. Vienna and Munich 1994, pp. 127–141 (Viennese contributions to the history of the modern age, vol. 21).
- Michael North : History of the Netherlands. CH Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-41878-5 .
- JL Price: Holland and the Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth Century. The Politics of Particularism. Clarendon, Oxford 1994, ISBN 0-19-820383-7 .