Group Union of Utrecht Bloc Defunct 1579 CE – 1581 CE Capital Utrecht Utrecht Netherlands Member Cities Utrecht Utrecht Netherlands Capital Arras > Nemetocenna Nord-Pas-de-Calais France Location Ghent > Gent Oost-Vlaanderen Belgium Location Louvain > Leuven Vlaams-Brabant Belgium Location Maastricht Limburg Netherlands Location The Hague > 's-Gravenhage Zuid-Holland Netherlands Location People Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor Elizabeth I Francis de Valois Henry III of France +7 more Groups Dutch people Papal States (Republic of St. Peter) Flanders, County of Normandy, Duchy of Brittanny, Duchy of +40 more Topics Humanism, Renaissance Renaissance Architecture Renaissance in the Low Countries Renaissance, French Protestant Reformation +12 more Subjects Origins Technology Trade Religion Watercraft +9 more Commodities Fish and game Weapons Textiles Grains and produce Alcoholic beverages +2 more Locations Maastricht Limburg Netherlands The Hague > 's-Gravenhage Zuid-Holland Netherlands Arras > Nemetocenna Nord-Pas-de-Calais France Utrecht Utrecht Netherlands Ghent > Gent Oost-Vlaanderen Belgium +1 more ← Lanna, or Lan Na (Siam), Burmese principality of Union of Arras → Cite this entry Moran, J. (n.d.). Union of Utrecht. History Atlas. Retrieved 9 November 2026, from https://www.historyatlas.com/groups/union-of-utrecht/ Related events Loading related events…