The Treaty of The Hague is a treaty signed on 12 April 1433, in which

Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut Jacqueline ( nl, Jacoba; french: Jacqueline; german: Jakobäa; 15 July 1401 – 8 October 1436), of the House of Wittelsbach, was a noblewoman who ruled the counties of Holland, Zeeland and Hainaut in the Low Countries from 1417 to 1433. She ...

transferred the Dutch territories of her

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inheritance to

Philip the Good Philip III (french: Philippe le Bon; nl, Filips de Goede; 31 July 1396 – 15 June 1467) was Duke of Burgundy from 1419 until his death. He was a member of a cadet line of the Valois dynasty, to which all 15th-century kings of France belonge ...

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. Jacqueline had fought over the counties of

Holland Holland is a geographical regionG. Geerts & H. Heestermans, 1981, ''Groot Woordenboek der Nederlandse Taal. Deel I'', Van Dale Lexicografie, Utrecht, p 1105 and former province on the western coast of the Netherlands. From the 10th to the 16th c ...

Zeeland , nl, Ik worstel en kom boven("I struggle and emerge") , anthem = "Zeeuws volkslied"("Zeelandic Anthem") , image_map = Zeeland in the Netherlands.svg , map_alt = , m ...

, Hainaut and

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since the death of her father William VI of Holland in 1417 first against her uncle

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and then against duke Philip. In 1428, defeated by Philip, she was forced to sign the Treaty of Delft, which named Philip as her heir if she died without offspring and forbade her to remarry without the consent of Philip. In 1432, after she married

Frank van Borssele Frank II of Borssele (probably around 1396 – 19 November 1470, Den Briel) was a 15th-century Zeelandic nobleman. He was stadhouder of Holland and Zeeland, but is mainly known as the fourth husband of countess Jacqueline of Holland. He was th ...

, Philip claimed that the Treaty of Delft had been broken and demanded that Jacqueline abandon all her rights to him; the treaty of The Hague of 1433 formalized this abandonment. Jacqueline died just three years later. Her Dutch lands were eventually merged into the

Habsburg Empire The Habsburg monarchy (german: Habsburgermonarchie, ), also known as the Danubian monarchy (german: Donaumonarchie, ), or Habsburg Empire (german: Habsburgerreich, ), was the collection of empires, kingdoms, duchies, counties and other polities ...

Sources

* Michaela Bleicher: Das Herzogtum Niederbayern-Straubing in den Hussitenkriegen. Kriegsalltag und Kriegsführung im Spiegel der Landschreiberrechnungen. Dissertation, Universität Regensburg 2006, p. 45 (online). * Laetitia Boehm: Das Haus Wittelsbach in den Niederlanden. In: Zeitschrift für bayerische Landesgeschichte. Vol 44, 1981, p. 93–130, in particular 123–125 (online). * Alfons Huber, Johannes Prammer (Hrsg.): 650 Jahre Herzogtum Niederbayern-Straubing-Holland. Vortragsreihe des Historischen Vereins für Straubing und Umgebung. Historischer Verein für Straubing und Umgebung, Straubing 2005, ISBN 3-00-014600-8, p. 331, 349. * Joachim Wild: Holland. Die Wittelsbacher an der Nordsee (1346–1436). In: Alois Schmid, Katharina Weigand (Hrsg.): Bayern mitten in Europa. Vom Frühmittelalter bis ins 20. Jahrhundert. C. H. Beck, München 2005, ISBN 3-406-52898-8, p. 92–106, in particular 105.

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