How did France just lose the County of Flanders, which was at the time arguably the richest place in Europe? It had been part of the Kingdom of France for the entirety of the Middle Ages, just to slip away to Austria.
Furthermore, how come they didn't bother, or better said, succeed reclaiming it?
>>482419
Nice map. Here is one in return -- and a bump
>>482419
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Golden_Spurs
>>482419
As much as we make fun of the
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Medieval France was also in a same situation: A royal center being shat on by semi-independent fiefdoms.
>>482419
Allied with the Holy Roman Empire.
>>483329
No, France looks weird without Provence.
France looks weird without everyting west of the alps, jura and rhine.
The county of Flanders has always been independant or somewhat independant, belonging to France only de jure.
>>482722
This battle is part of the Franco-Flemish War, following the attempt of France to actually control the county of Flanders, and resulted in a few gains and the county paying tribute. But not a full conquest.
France looks weird when not shaped as a star
It's not that France "lost" the County of Flanders. It's just that when the French king began the process of centralization of power around the royal figure, a process that began with Philip Augustus, and sped up during the reigns of Philip IV the Fair and Louis XI total control over the Low Countries always escaped their grasp.
They won over Brittany, Languedoc, Picardy, Normandy and even Burgundy, but never Flanders. I'd say that's exactly because they were so rich.
>>484233
>>484299
Its supposed to be an "hexagone"
>>484321
That's a retarded meme
The hexagon shape is only if you link each extremity, thus emcompassing lott of water and outside territory
If you take only proper territory, it looks more like a star
Pic related, the star in yellow, the hexagon in orange
Flanders was always kind of rebellious, but then the Hundred Years War happened.
The Hundred Years War is really what fucked everything up for medieval France and Europe.
>>484314
In our lifetime please.
>>484353
Its not my fault if the French use retarded memes to talk about their country.
>>484353
Star is a retarded meme as well because you have to leave out much of the french territory for it to work.
Simplified France doesn't really look like anything
