Lordship of Friesland

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former administrative territorial entity lordship

The Lordship of Friesland was a historical territorial and administrative region within the Habsburg-controlled Low Countries, corresponding largely to the area of modern Friesland in the northern Netherlands.

Aliases (1)

Frisian freedom ×1

Statements (45)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	former administrative territorial entity → lordship →
capital	Leeuwarden NERFINISHED →
country	Habsburg Netherlands →
currency	guilder →
establishedBy	Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor →
establishedUnder	Habsburg rule →
followedBy	Friesland (province) → Stadtholderate of Friesland →
follows	Frisian freedom → Holy Roman Empire →
governmentForm	feudal monarchy →
hasBorderWith	Lordship of Drenthe → Lordship of Groningen → Lordship of Overijssel → North Sea →
hasEthnicGroup	Frisians →
hasTypeOfSubdivision	lordship of the Low Countries →
historicalEra	Early modern period →
historicalRegionCorrespondsTo	modern province of Friesland →
languageUsed	Dutch → West Frisian →
legalSystem	Roman-Dutch law →
locatedIn	Friesland → Netherlands → Northern Netherlands →
locatedInPresentDay	Friesland → Netherlands →
locatedOn	North Sea coast →
partOf	Burgundian Circle → Habsburg Netherlands → Holy Roman Empire → Low Countries → Northern Netherlands region → Seventeen Provinces →
predecessor	Frisian freedom →
religion	Protestantism → Roman Catholicism →
ruler	Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor → Habsburg monarchy NERFINISHED → Philip II of Spain NERFINISHED →
sovereignState	Habsburg monarchy NERFINISHED → Spanish Empire →
timePeriod	16th century → 16th–18th centuries →

Referenced by (7)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Lord of the Netherlands → Seventeen Provinces →	hasPart
Pragmatic Sanction of 1549 →	appliesTo
Lordship of Groningen →	borderedBy
Lordship of Friesland ("Frisian freedom") →	follows
Union of Utrecht →	signatory
Lord of the Seventeen Provinces →	sovereigntyOver