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Ernest Gilliat-Smith. The Story of Bruges
The Story of Bruges
Table of Contents
PREFACE
GENEALOGICAL TABLES
ILLUSTRATIONS
The Story of Bruges
CHAPTER I. The First Flemings
CHAPTER II. Earliest Bruges
CHAPTER III. Arnulph the Great
CHAPTER IV. Progress of the City
CHAPTER V. The Murder of Charles the Good
CHAPTER VI. Vengeance
CHAPTER VII. Bruges in the Days of Charles the Good, etc
CHAPTER VIII. William Cliton
CHAPTER IX. Dierick of Alsace and the Precious Blood
CHAPTER X. Philip of Alsace and the Charter of the Franc
CHAPTER XI. Baldwin of Constantinople
CHAPTER XII. The Love Story of Bourchard d’Avesnes
CHAPTER XIII. The French Annexation
CHAPTER XIV. Peter de Coninck
CHAPTER XV. The Battle of the Golden Spurs
CHAPTER XVI. The Great Charter—The Belfry and the Tower of Notre Dame
CHAPTER XVII. Louis of Nevers
CHAPTER XVIII. Louis of Maele
CHAPTER XIX. Bruges under the Princes of the House of Burgundy—Philip le Hardi and John Sans Peur—1385-1419
CHAPTER XX. The Great Humiliation
CHAPTER XXI. The Terrible Duke and his Gentle Daughter
CHAPTER XXII. The Final Catastrophe
CHAPTER XXIII. The Architects and Architecture of Bruges in the Fifteenth Century
CHAPTER XXIV. The Painters and the Pictures of Bruges in the Fifteenth Century
Hubert van Eyck
John van Eyck
Gerard David
Roger van der Weyden
Dierick Boudts
Hans Memlinc
CHAPTER XXV. Modern Bruges
INDEX
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Ernest Gilliat-Smith
Published by Good Press, 2021
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The whole island was encircled by a strong and lofty wall, pierced by four great gateways, each one protected by a portcullis and a drawbridge, which were the only means of communication with the outer world. Such was the citadel reared on the banks of the Roya by the father and founder of Bruges. Of his handiwork only a fragment has come down to us, but a fragment so perfect, that as one enters the gloomy crypt beneath the Chapel of the Precious Blood, the mind is involuntarily carried back to the time when Baldwin and his family worshipped there, a thousand years ago.
The same policy was pursued during the reign of the Frisian’s successor. Amongst the knights who followed Count Robert II. to Jerusalem were not a few Saxon chiefs. The names of some of them have come down to us—Siger of Ghistelles, Walter of Oudenburg, Engelram of Lillers, Erembald of Bruges, the mightiest of them all, and Erembald’s son Robert, Count Robert’s intimate friend and his most trusted servant. The influence of the Karls is distinctly traceable in the changed attitude of Flanders with regard to England. Baldwin had done all he could to strengthen William, Robert strained every nerve to oppose him. He would have brought back the line of Alfred, or restored the English throne to the house of the great Canute, had not the Conqueror been wily enough to circumvent him. Raised to supreme authority by the aid of Saxon Karls, Robert the Frisian could hardly have done otherwise than show himself friendly to the cause of their compatriots.
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