Maximilian and Mary of Burgundy Marry
August 18, 1477
The Habsburg prince arrived in Ghent to marry Charles the Bold's heiress and keep the Netherlands out of French hands. The union brought Flanders, Brabant, and Holland under Habsburg rule and set Austria on a collision course with France that would last three centuries. A dynastic marriage had just rewritten Europe.
In context
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Before and after in Europe
Before and after in Politics
- Before: 1475: Truce of Picquigny
- After: April 26, 1478: Pazzi Conspiracy
Era
Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.
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