In the history of the Low Countries, the BurgundianNetherlands (Latin: Burgundiae Belgicae, French: Pays-Bas bourguignons, Dutch: Bourgondische Nederlanden
task of defending the territory. The Imperial fiefs of the former BurgundianNetherlands had been inherited by the Austrian House of Habsburg from the extinct
under the Holy Roman Empire rule of the Burgundian duke Philip the Good (1419–1467), the provinces of the Netherlands began to grow together, whereas previously
and comital Burgundy and the BurgundianNetherlands). That territorial construction outlasted the properly 'Burgundian' dynasty and the loss of the Duchy
The Austrian Netherlands was the territory of the Burgundian Circle of the Holy Roman Empire between 1714 and 1797. The period began with the acquisition