GM! Photo: The gothic city hall…
GM! Photo: The gothic city hall of Brussels.
When the last Burgundy ruler of the Netherlands, Mary, wife of Maximilian I of Austria, died, starts the Austrian rule of the Low Countries. In 1506 Charles V (born in Ghent, Flanders) who then also became King of Spain and even Holy Roman Emperor at the death of his grandfather in 1519, inherited the rule of the Habsburg Netherlands. Charles was now the ruler of a Habsburg Empire "on which the sun never sets" with Brussels serving as one of his main capitals.
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