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Lordship of Groningen
Origins
Groningen, a Hanseatic city that dominated the Frisian Ommelanden around it, resisted Saxon rule and placed itself under Charles of Egmond, duke of Guelders, in 1515. When Guelders weakened, the city and countryside accepted Charles V as lord in 1536, joining the Habsburg Netherlands.
Rule and society
Stad en Lande, the city and the lands, was governed by its own estates in which the city and the rural Ommelanden constantly quarrelled over staple rights and taxes. The Habsburgs ruled through a stadtholder. Groningen traded grain and cattle and kept close ties with the German Hanse.
Decline and legacy
In 1580 the stadtholder Rennenberg went over to the Spanish side, keeping Groningen royalist. Maurice of Nassau besieged and took the city in 1594, and it joined the Dutch Republic as a province.
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- Lordship of Groningen was part of Habsburg Netherlands1536 CE – 1556 CE
- Lordship of Groningen was part of Spanish Netherlands1556 CE – 1594 CE
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