Count of Flanders

The list of the counts of Flanders contains the holders of the County of Flanders.

The county emerged from the ancient Roman pagus Flandrensis, which belonged to the West Frankish kingdom since the Frankish kingdom division of Verdun in 843. Well in the year 864 of the West Frankish king Charles the Bald belieh his son Baldwin I Iron Arm with the pagus from the turn out was the county of Flanders during the Middle Ages. About the middle ages across the county belonged to France until it was ceded in 1525 to the Holy Roman Empire. 1801, the historical province of Flanders was awarded France again, in 1815 the United Kingdom of the Netherlands. Since 1830, the Kingdom of Belgium belongs to.

House Flanders (864-1119)

House Estridsson (1119-1127)

Rolloniden (1127-1128)

House Châtenois (1128-1194)

House Flanders (1194-1251)

House of Dampierre (1278-1384)

House of Burgundy (1384-1482)

Habsburg (1482-1797)

From 1506 see governor of the Habsburg Netherlands

Flanders from 1797 to today

Modern use of the Graf title

Today, the Count of Flanders ( Comte de Flandre and Graaf van Vlaanderen ) is a title of nobility in the Kingdom of Belgium, which refers to the historic county of Flanders. The title has been awarded twice to members of the Belgian royal family.

  • Philippe of Belgium († 1905), second son of King Leopold I, Count of Flanders since 1840
  • Charles of Belgium († 1983), second son of King Albert I, Count of Flanders since 1905

Since 1983 the title was not awarded.

  • List ( Count )
  • Graf ( Flanders)
  • History ( Flanders)
Treaty of Verdun West Francia Baldwin I, Count of Flanders Baldwin II, Count of Flanders Arnulf I, Count of Flanders Baldwin III, Count of Flanders Arnulf II, Count of Flanders Baldwin IV, Count of Flanders Baldwin V, Count of Flanders Arnulf III, Count of Flanders Robert I, Count of Flanders Robert II, Count of Flanders House of Estridsen House of Normandy William Clito Thierry, Count of Flanders Philip I, Count of Flanders Margaret I, Countess of Flanders Baldwin V, Count of Hainaut Baldwin I of Constantinople Joan, Countess of Flanders Ferdinand, Count of Flanders Thomas, Count of Flanders Margaret II, Countess of Flanders William II, Count of Flanders Guy, Count of Flanders Robert III, Count of Flanders Louis I, Count of Flanders Louis II, Count of Flanders Seventeen Provinces Spanish Netherlands List of governors of the Habsburg Netherlands Belgian Revolution Leopold I of Belgium Prince Charles, Count of Flanders Albert I of Belgium
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