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The County of Flanders ((オランダ語:Graafschap Vlaanderen), (フランス語:Comté de Flandre)) was a historic territory in the Low Countries. From 862 onwards the Counts of Flanders were one of the original twelve peers of the Kingdom of France. For centuries their estates around the cities of Ghent, Bruges and Ypres formed one of the most affluent regions in Europe. Up to 1477 the area under French suzerainty was located west of the Scheldt River and was called "Royal Flanders" (Dutch: ''Kroon-Vlaanderen'', French: ''Flandre royale''). Aside from this the Counts of Flanders from the 11th century on also held land east of the river as a fief of the Holy Roman Empire, an area called "Imperial Flanders" (''Rijks-Vlaanderen'' or ''Flandre impériale''). Part of the Burgundian Netherlands from 1384, the county was finally removed from French to Imperial control after the Peace of Madrid in 1526 and the Peace of Ladies in 1529. In 1795 the remaining territory within the Austrian Netherlands was incorporated by the French First Republic and passed to the newly established United Kingdom of the Netherlands in 1815. The former County of Flanders, except for French Flanders, is the only part of the medieval French kingdom that is not part of modern-day France. ==Etymology== Flanders and Flemish (Dutch: ''Vlaanderen'', ''Vlaams'') are likely derived from the Frisian *''flāndra'' and *''flāmisk'' (in Old Frisian ''flamsk''), the roots of which are Germanic *''flaumaz'' meaning "overflow, flooding". The coastal area of Flanders was flooded twice per day from the 3rd century to the 8th century by the North Sea at the time when the coast was frequently visited by Frisian (cattle) traders and probably largely inhabited by Frisians. The Flemish people are first mentioned in the biography of Saint Eligius (ca. 590-660), the ''Vita sancti Eligii''. This work was written before 684, but only known since 725. This work mentions the "Flanderenses", who lived in "Flandris." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「County of Flanders」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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