{"slug": "county-of-hainaut", "label": "County of Hainaut", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_of_Hainaut", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q309460", "qid": "Q309460", "description": "medieval region in current Belgium and France", "entries": 18, "years": 18, "span": [1056, 1579], "span_label": ["1056 CE", "1579 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Births", "count": 6}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 5}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 5}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 2}], "related": [{"slug": "county-of-flanders", "label": "County of Flanders", "shared": 5}, {"slug": "county-of-holland", "label": "County of Holland", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "states-general-of-the-netherlands", "label": "States General of the Netherlands", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "september", "label": "September", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "louis-iv-holy-roman-emperor", "label": "Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "zeeland", "label": "Zeeland", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "holland", "label": "Holland", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "belgium", "label": "Belgium", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "western-europe", "label": "Western Europe", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "bruges", "label": "Bruges", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "duchy-of-brabant", "label": "Duchy of Brabant", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "burgundian-netherlands", "label": "Burgundian Netherlands", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1056, "year_label": "1056 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Baldwin II of Mons, count of Hainaut (approximate date)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365382431#Births", "title": "1056", "revid": 1365382431, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 1098, "year_label": "1098 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Baldwin II, count of Hainaut (House of Flanders) (b. 1056)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362163181#Deaths", "title": "1098", "revid": 1362163181, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1108, "year_label": "1108 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Baldwin IV, count of Hainaut (d. 1171)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362166699#Births", "title": "1108", "revid": 1362166699, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 1150, "year_label": "1150 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Baldwin V, count of Hainaut and Flanders (d. 1195)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362164290#Births", "title": "1150", "revid": 1362164290, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 1171, "year_label": "1171 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "November 8", "text": "November 8 – Baldwin IV, count of Hainaut (b. 1108)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362165802#Deaths", "title": "1171", "revid": 1362165802, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1190, "year_label": "1190 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "King Henry VI, eldest son of Frederick I, grants Henry I (the Brave) the title of Duke of Brabant. Henry tries to expand his power and soon quarrels with Count Baldwin V, duke of Hainaut.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368650742#Europe", "title": "1190", "revid": 1368650742, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1191, "year_label": "1191 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "The counties of Flanders and Hainaut (modern Belgium) are united under Count Baldwin VIII. Flanders, a feudal fiefdom of France, becomes an important, wealthy independent state of Western Europe.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362170549#Europe", "title": "1191", "revid": 1362170549, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1218, "year_label": "1218 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "May 1", "text": "May 1 – John I, count of Hainaut (d. 1257)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1347207200#Births", "title": "1218", "revid": 1347207200, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 1244, "year_label": "1244 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "December 5", "text": "December 5 – Joan, countess of Flanders and Hainaut", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360513044#Deaths", "title": "1244", "revid": 1360513044, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1247, "year_label": "1247 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "John II Avesnes, count of Hainaut and Holland (d. 1304)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362480331#Births", "title": "1247", "revid": 1362480331, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 1253, "year_label": "1253 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "July 4", "text": "July 4 – William II, count of Holland, defeats the Flemish forces under Guy of Dampierre at Westkapelle. He forced him and his mother, Margaret II, to respect the division of Flanders and Hainaut.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362664638#Europe", "title": "1253", "revid": 1362664638, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1257, "year_label": "1257 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "December 24", "text": "December 24 – John of Avesnes, count of Hainaut (b. 1218)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350011805#Deaths", "title": "1257", "revid": 1350011805, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1299, "year_label": "1299 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "November 10", "text": "November 10 – John I, count of Holland, dies and is succeeded by his uncle John II. He establishes a personal union with the County of Hainaut.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349939019#Europe", "title": "1299", "revid": 1349939019, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1337, "year_label": "1337 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Jean Froissart, historian and courtier from Hainaut (d. 1405)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1359629159#Births", "title": "1337", "revid": 1359629159, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 1345, "year_label": "1345 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "September", "text": "September – Holland, Hainaut and Zeeland are inherited by Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor, and remain part of the imperial crown domain until 1347.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366119534#Events", "title": "1345", "revid": 1366119534, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1464, "year_label": "1464 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "January 6", "text": "January 6 – The first assembly ever of the States General of the Netherlands is held as representatives from at least 17 provinces of the Burgundian Netherlands gather at Bruges. At least 81 delegates come from the clergy, nobility and general public from the Duchy of Brabant, the County of Flanders, Lille, Douai and Orchies, the County of Artois, the County of Hainaut, the County of Holland, the County of Zeeland, the County of Namur, the Lordship of Mechelen, and the Boulonnais, all with the reluctant assent of Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367795127#January–March", "title": "1464", "revid": 1367795127, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1576, "year_label": "1576 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "September 8", "text": "September 8 – The States General of the Netherlands is convened by the leaders of the States of Brabant and the County of Hainaut in order to respond to mutineering Spanish troops.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362635528#July–September", "title": "1576", "revid": 1362635528, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1579, "year_label": "1579 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "May 17", "text": "May 17 – The Treaty of Arras is concluded between Spain (represented by the Duke of Parma), and members of the Union of Arras that had been formed in January. The Union of Utrecht continues its resistance against Spain while the County of Hainaut, the County of Artois, and the cities of Douai, Lille, Orchies and Arras agree to a separate peace under Spanish rule.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362792771#April–June", "title": "1579", "revid": 1362792771, "section": "Events › April–June"}}]}