List of wars in the Low Countries until 1560
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This is a list of premodern wars that occurred in the Low Countries until 1560.
- For subsequent wars in the north, see List of wars involving the Netherlands (1560–present).
- For subsequent wars in the south, see
- List of wars in the southern Low Countries (1560–1829)
- List of wars involving Belgium (1830–present)
- List of wars involving Luxembourg (1890–present).
List[]
Start | Finish | Name of conflict | Belligerents | Outcome | |
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Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | ||||
58 BCE | 50 BCE | Gallic Wars | ![]() |
Gallic tribes Germanic tribes Celtic Britons Iberian tribes |
Decisive Roman victory
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54 BCE | 53 BCE | Ambiorix's revolt (part of the Gallic Wars) |
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Eburones | Roman victory
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12 BCE | 16 CE | Early Imperial campaigns in Germania (including the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest) |
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Germanic tribes | Strategic Germanic victory
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28 | 28 | Battle of Baduhenna Wood | ![]() |
Frisii | Indecisive; tactical Frisian victory
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47 | 47 | Gannascus' revolt | ![]() |
Cananefates Chauci Frisii |
Roman victory
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69 | 70 | Revolt of the Batavi | ![]() |
Batavi Cananefates Frisii Lingones Treveri |
Roman victory
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c.445 | c.450 | Frankish conquest of Turnacum and Cameracum[1] | ![]() |
Salian Franks | Frankish victory
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448 | 448 | Battle of Vicus Helena | ![]() |
Salian Franks | Roman victory |
c.450 | c.450 | Battle of Finnsburg? | Frisii | Danes | Danish victory |
c.525 | c.525 | ? | Frankish Empire Frisii? |
Danes | Frankish victory |
600 | 793 | Frisian–Frankish wars | Frankish Empire | Frisian Kingdom | Frankish victory
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715 | 718 | Frankish Civil War (715–718) | Carolingian faction (Austrasian) Charles Martel Chlothar IV (717–718) Pippinid faction (Austrasian) |
Neustrian faction Ragenfrid Dagobert III (†715) Chilperic II Redbad of Frisia (716–718) Odo of Aquitaine (independent until 718) |
Carolingian victory
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772 | 804 | Saxon Wars | Frankish Empire Obotrite Confederacy |
Saxons Frisians |
Frankish victory
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834 | 891 | Viking raids in the Rhineland | Vikings | Frankish Empire, splitting into: |
Frankish victory
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1012 | 1018 | Lower Lorrainian war of succession[2] | County of Verdun![]() |
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Verdun victory
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1018 | 1018 | Battle of Vlaardingen | West Frisia (later County of Holland) | ![]() |
West Frisian victory
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1044 | 1056 | Revolts of Godfrey the Bearded | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Compromise
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1070 | 1071 | War of the Flemish succession (1070–1071) | ![]() West Frisia (later County of Holland) |
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West Frisian victory
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1076 | 1076 | West Frisia (later County of Holland) | ![]() |
West Frisian victory
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1127 | 1128 | War of the Flemish succession (1127–1128) | ![]() |
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Theoderican victory
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1132 | 1297 | [3][4][5] | ![]() |
West Frisians | Hollandic victory
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1139 | 1159 | ![]() |
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Leuven victory
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1165 | 1323 | [6] | ![]() |
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Hollandic victory: Treaty of Paris (1323)
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1186 | 1263/5 | War of the Namurois–Luxemburgish succession[7][8] | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Compromise
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1202 | 1378 | ![]() ![]() |
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Compromise: Truce of Booienhoven | |
1203 | 1206 | Loon War | Ada and Louis II![]() Supported by: |
William![]() Supported by: ![]() ![]() |
Military and long-term political victory for William
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1212 | 1213 | War of the Moha Succession (part of the ) |
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Liégeois victory
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1213 | 1214 | Anglo-French War (1213–1214) | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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French victory
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1225 | 1227 | Drenthe–Groningen war | ![]() ![]() |
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Drenther victory
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1228 | 1232 | Drenther Crusade | ![]() ![]() |
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Inconclusive
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1226/8 | 1231/2 | [9] | |||
1244 | 1254 | War of the Flemish Succession | ![]() ![]() Supported by: ![]() |
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Compromise
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1245/50 | 1273/5 | Great Interregnum | ![]()
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Compromise
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1256 | 1422 | Friso-Hollandic Wars | ![]() |
Upstalsboom League Various other Frisian factions |
Holland conquers West Frisia, but makes no substantial gains in Middle Frisia |
1272 | 1278 | War of the Cow | ![]() |
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Indecisive
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1283 | 1289 | War of the Limburg Succession | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Brabantian victory
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1296 | 1335 | [10] | ![]() |
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Stalemate
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1297 | 1305 | Franco-Flemish War | ![]() ![]() |
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French victory
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1303 | 1306 | Brabantian artisan guilds | Brabantian patrician class![]() |
Patrician–ducal victory
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1322 | 1326 | ![]() |
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Compromise: Peace of Wesel
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1323 | 1328 | Peasant revolt in Flanders 1323–1328 | ![]() ![]() |
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French victory
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1336 | 1366 | Wars of the Loon Succession (part of the ) |
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Liégeois victory |
1337 | 1453 | Hundred Years' War |
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Valois victory
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1350 | 1361 | ![]() ![]() |
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Edwardian victory
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1350 | 1490 | Hook and Cod wars | Hook league (anti-Burgundy) | Cod league (pro-Burgundy) | Cod victory
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1352 | 1365 | War of the Valkenburg succession[12] | ![]()
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Brabantian victory
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1356 | 1357 | War of the Brabantian Succession | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Flemish–Guelderian victory
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1364 | 1368 | [13] | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Military stalemate, diplomatic Brabantian victory
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1371 | 1371 | Battle of Baesweiler | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Jülich–Guelderian victory
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1371 | 1379 | First War of the Guelderian Succession | ![]() ![]() |
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Jülich victory
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1379 | 1385 | Revolt of Ghent (1379–1385) (part of the Hundred Years' War) |
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Franco–Burgundian victory
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1382 | 1383 | Despenser's Crusade (part of the Hundred Years' War, Revolt of Ghent and Western Schism) |
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Truce
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1385 | 1390 | [14][15] | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Guelderian victory
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1397 | 1399 | [16][17] | ![]() |
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1401 | 1412 | [18] | ![]() ![]() |
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Hollandic victory
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1413 | 1422 | Great Frisian War | Vetkopers | Schieringers | Stalemate
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1423 | 1449 | Utrecht Schism[19] | ![]() Lichtenbergers Hook league Proysen ![]() |
![]() Lokhorsten Cod league ![]() ![]() ![]() Council of Basel (1431–49) Antipope Felix V (1439–49) |
Lichtenberger victory
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1438 | 1441 | Dutch–Hanseatic War (part of the ) |
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Stalemate; compromise |
1442 | 1446 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Peace of Harderwijk (1446) | |
1449 | 1453 | Revolt of Ghent (1449–1453) | ![]() ![]() |
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Burgundian victory
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1456 | 1458 | Utrecht war (1456–1458) | ![]() ![]() Graauwerts Cod league |
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Burgundian victory
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1458 | 1464 | [20] | Harinxmas (Schieringers) | Donias (Vetkopers) | Successive reconciliations between warring clans |
1459 | 1459 | Revolt against Arnold[21] | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Arnoldian victory
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1465 | 1468 | Wars of Liège | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Burgundian victory
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1465 | 1468 | War in Guelders[21] | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Adolfian victory (
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1473 | 1473 | Burgundian conquest of Guelders[22] | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Burgundian victory
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1474 | 1477 | Burgundian Wars | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Franco–Swiss victory
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1477 | 1482 | War of the Burgundian Succession | Habsburg:![]() ![]() ![]() |
Valois-Orléans:![]() ![]() ![]() |
Treaty of Arras (1482), Treaty of Senlis (1493)
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1477 | 1499 | (1477–82, 1494–9) (part of the War of the Burgundian Succession) |
Habsburg:![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Guelders:![]() Supported by: ![]() |
Guelderian victory
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1481 | 1483 | Utrecht war of 1481–83 (part of the Hook and Cod Wars) |
Cod league![]() |
Hook league![]() |
Cod victory
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1483 | 1492 | Flemish revolts against Maximilian | ![]() ![]() |
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Habsburg victory
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1488 | 1490 | (part of the Hook and Cod Wars) |
Cod league (pro-Habsburg)![]() ![]() |
Hook league (anti-Habsburg) | Cod–Habsburg victory
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1491 | 1492 | Bread and Cheese Revolt | ![]() ![]() |
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Habsburg victory
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1502 | 1543 | Guelders Wars | Habsburg:![]() ![]()
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Guelders:![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Supported by:
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Habsburg victory
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1514 | 1517 | Saxon feud (part of the Guelders Wars) |
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24 German princes |
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Compromise
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1531 | 1534 | (part of the Guelders Wars) |
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Guelderian victory; Peace of Logum
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1539 | 1540 | Revolt of Ghent (1539) | ![]() ![]() |
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Habsburg victory
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1542 | 1546 | Italian War of 1542–1546 | ![]()
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Inconclusive
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1551 | 1559 | Italian War of 1551–1559 |
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Spanish and Imperial (Habsburg) victory |
- War of succession, diocesan feud or clan feud
- War of conquest (territorial control)
- Religious war
- Economic war (including socio-economic revolts)
- Revolt or rebellion (political)
References[]
- ^ According to Lanting & van der Plicht (2010), the conquest of Turnacum and Cameracum probably happened in the period 445–450. Lanting, J. N.; van der Plicht, J. (2010). "De 14C-chronologie van de Nederlandse Pre- en Protohistorie VI: Romeinse tijd en Merovische periode, deel A: historische bronnen en chronologische thema's". Palaeohistoria 51/52 (2009/2010) (in Dutch). Groningen: Groningen Institute of Archaeology. p. 46–47. ISBN 9789077922736. Retrieved 8 July 2020.
- ^ Timothy Reuter (ed.), The New Cambridge Medieval History. Volume 3, c.900–c.1024 (1999), p. 321.
- ^ Nieuwenhuijsen, Kees (2018). De Slag bij Vlaardingen 1018: Strijd om het graafschap Holland. Utrecht: Uitgeverij Omniboek. p. 289. ISBN 9789401912693. Retrieved 5 January 2020.
- ^ 't Jong, Henk (2018). De dageraad van Holland: De geschiedenis van het graafschap 1100-1300. Utrecht: Uitgeverij Omniboek. p. 123. ISBN 9789020534870. Retrieved 5 January 2020.
- ^ "Resten West-Friese moordpartij gevonden". NOS. 25 November 2011. Retrieved 5 January 2020.
- ^ Graaf, R. de: Oorlog om Holland 1000-1375 (Verloren, Hilversum, 2004), ISBN 9065508074, p. 156, 167.
- ^ Encarta-encyclopedie Winkler Prins (1993–2002) s.v. "Namen [geschiedenis]. §1. Regeerders". Microsoft Corporation/Het Spectrum.
- ^ Coppens, Thera (2019). Johanna en Margaretha: Gravinnen van Vlaanderen en prinsessen van Constantinopel. Meulenhoff Boekerij. p. 348, footnote 315. ISBN 9789402313956. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
- ^ Boeren, P.C. (1962). Hadewych en Heer Hendrik Van Breda (in Dutch). Leiden: E.J. Brill. pp. 28–29. Retrieved 19 December 2016.
- ^ Encarta-encyclopedie Winkler Prins (1993–2002) s.v. "Awans-en-Waroux-oorlog". Microsoft Corporation/Het Spectrum.
- ^ One must keep in mind that Arnold and Godfrey were also quarreling amongst themselves, and did not constitute a united front against the Liégeois prince-bishop.
- ^ Boffa, pp. 13–15.
- ^ Boffa, pp. 15–17.
- ^ Boffa, Sergio (2004). Warfare in Medieval Brabant, 1356-1406. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer. pp. 30–35. ISBN 9781843830610. Retrieved 16 December 2019.
- ^ Eads, V.; Rogers, Clifford J. (ed.) (2010). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology: Volume I. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 218. ISBN 978-0195334036. Retrieved 16 December 2019.
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