Polity · 990 CE – 1384 CE
County of Flanders
Comté de Flandre · Graafschap Vlaanderen
- Peak recorded area
- 36,834 km²
- 1169 CE
- Rulers on record
- 3
- from 1191 CE
Overview
The County of Flanders was one of the most powerful political entities in the medieval Low Countries, located on the North Sea coast of modern-day Belgium and north-eastern France. Unlike the neighbouring states of Brabant and Hainaut, it was within the territory of the Kingdom of France. The counts of Flanders held the most northerly part of the kingdom, and were among the original twelve peers of France.
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Territory
16 dated territorial extents on record from Cliopatria. Areas are measured off the recorded polygons; the line steps because each extent holds until the next one is recorded — nothing is interpolated.
Rulers
3 on record with dated reigns. Reign years follow the house convention: BCE years are negative.
- Baldwin V, Count of HainautCount of Flanders1191 CE – 1194 CE
- Baldwin I of ConstantinopleCount of Flanders1194 CE – 1205 CE
- Joan, Countess of FlandersCount of Flanders1205 CE – 1244 CE
Sources
Every figure above comes from one of these. Nothing on this page is estimated, interpolated or model-generated.
Seshat Global History Databank. Cliopatria: a historical basemap of polity borders (cliopatria.geojson).
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County of Flanders is one of the polities with a sourced record deep enough to publish.