Queen Philippa imports Flemish weavers to Norwich
1333
Edward III's queen convinced skilled Flemish wool weavers to settle in East Anglia under royal protection, offering them favorable terms and exemptions from local guild restrictions. The move seeded an English cloth industry that would displace Flemish imports within two generations. Raw wool exports would fall, finished cloth exports would rise, and English commercial politics would never be the same.
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.