biography
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Artevelde, Jacob van
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pronunciation:
[ah(r)tevelduh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.1295–1345)
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| biography:
| Flemish statesman, born in Ghent, NW Belgium. He organized an alliance of Flemish towns in the conflict between France and England at the outbreak of the Hundred Years' War (1337–1453). Elected Captain of Ghent in 1338, he ruled like an autocrat. When Edward III of England declared himself King of France in 1340, he insisted on Ghent making a treaty that accepted Edward's sovereignty. In 1345 he proposed that Edward the Black Prince should be made Count of Flanders, but was assassinated in an ensuing riot. |
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