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Group: Order of Christ (Portugal)
People: Michael Korybut Wiśniowiecki
Topic: Flemish Succession, War of the
Location: Altaj (Jesönbulag) Govi-Altai Mongolia

Flemish Succession, War of the

Years: 1244 - 1254

The War of the Flemish Succession is a series of feudal conflicts in the mid-thirteenth century between the children of Margaret II, Countess of Flanders.

They concern the succession to the two counties of Flanders and Hainaut, the first a fief of the King of France and the latter of the King of Germany.

“History is important. If you don't know history it is as if you were born yesterday. And if you were born yesterday, anybody up there in a position of power can tell you anything, and you have no way of checking up on it.”

—Howard Zinn, You Can't Be Neutral ... (2004)