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unusual facts about John IV, Duke of Brabant


Park Abbey

Abbot Gerard van Goetsenhoven (1414–34) had much to do with the establishment of the Catholic University of Leuven, and was also delegated by John IV, Duke of Brabant to transact state affairs with the King of England and the Duke of Burgundy.


Battle of Baesweiler

After mercenaries robbed a number of Brabantine merchants on the territory of William II, Duke of Jülich in 1371, William refused to pay reparation to Wenceslaus I of Luxembourg, husband of the Duchess of Brabant, let alone punish the mercenaries, instead protecting them and even hiring some.

Berlengas

After the Portuguese Restoration War, during the reign of King John IV, the Counsel of War determined that the demolition of the monastery ruins, and the use of their rocks to build a coastal defense would help protect the coastal settlements; the Fort of São João Baptista das Berlengas was constructed from the remnants of the monastery ruins.

Bundschuh movement

Under this flag, peasants and city dwellers had defeated the troops of the French count of Armagnac along the upper Rhine in 1439, 1443 and 1444.

Czartoryski Museum

Izabela also bought the treasures of the Duke of Brabant, including his books which were considered a particular highlight of the collection.

Duchy of Limburg

The Duke of Brabant won the final Battle of Worringen in 1288, thereby gaining control of the Duchy of Limburg with the consent of King Rudolph I of Germany.

Duke of Brabant

Although the corresponding county was quite small (limited to the territory between the rivers Senne and Dender) its name was applied to the entire country under control of the Dukes from the 13th century on.

Euphemia of Sweden

Children: at least son John, possibly the daughter Euphemia was already born.

Free City of Lübeck

In the same year Eric IV, supported by his sons Eric (later reigning as Eric V) and John (later John IV), captured the pawned lands without making the agreed repayment and before Lübeck could take possession of them.

Hamburg Parliament

Brandes had claims due against John IV, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg from a credit which Brandes had granted earlier.

Jean de Montfort

John IV, Duke of Brittany (1294-1345), contested Duke of Brittany, one of two sides in the Breton War of Succession

Jean II, Duke of Alençon

He sold all he possessed to the English, and his fief of Fougères to the Duke of Brittany.

John IV, Duke of Brabant

John the Fearless, the duke of Burgundy, naturally supported his nephew, as did the States of Brabant.

John IV, Duke of Brittany

Joan of Brittany, Baroness of Drayton (1341 – aft. 20 October 1399), married before 21 October 1385 Ralph Basset, 4th Baron Basset de Drayton

Beatrice de Montfort

John IV, Lord of Arkel

Frans van Mieris the Younger, Groot Charterboek der Graven van Holland, Leiden, 1753

Liège Medal

It was first issued in April 1920 during a large ceremony presided by the Duke of Brabant (the future King Leopold III) and Lieutenant General the Count Gérard-Mathieu Leman, military commander of the defence of Liège during the battle which raged from the 5th to the 16th of August 1914.

Melchior Broederlam

From 1381 he was court painter to Louis de Mâle, Duke of Brabant, and from Louis's death in 1384 worked for his son-in-law and successor, Philip the Bold, although he remained based in Ypres, doing much work, mostly decorative, at Philip's now vanished chateau at Hesdin, which was full of elaborate mechanical devices, of what we might today call a fairground nature, which needed painting.

Pactum Sicardi

The Pactum Sicardi was a treaty signed on 4 July 836 between the Greek Duchy of Naples, including its satellite city-states of Sorrento and Amalfi, represented by Bishop John IV and Duke Andrew II, and the Lombard Prince of Benevento, Sicard.

Westmalle Castle

The farm was the residence of the representatives of the Dukes of Brabant.


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