>The Netherlands was spanish at one pointWe missed out on 6 foot blonde blue eyed dutch foids with sassy latina personalities who like twerking in your face
It wasn't "Spanish". The Netherlands (and Belgium) was the realm of a late medieval independent state whose monarch was killed in battle, so it was inherited by his only child: a twenty year old daughter that eventually married the son of the Holy Roman Emperor: Maximilian. This man belonged to an Austrian dynasty known as the Habsburgs, a family that had put in motion for some time a series of alliances with some of France's neighbors and rivals as a means to isolate the French state (by far the most cohesive and powerful country of the era in Europe). As a result, Maximilian arranged his eldest son to marry one of the daughters of the Catholic Monarchs in Castile & Aragon. The son of Philip eventually inherited both the Benelux as well as the thrones of Castile and Aragon.
>>222942820there were still dirty Spaniard Papists raping virgin blonde Dutch women
>>222942820i aint reading allat
Somewhere back in the XV century, Manolos went to sleep & when they woke up "they" (ie the king) became inheritors to a great deal of European kingdoms, which ended up giving them legitimacy to conquest the americas (another case of extreme luck)Thats the historical equivalent of winning the lotery
>>222942820Yep. The French king killed the Duke of Burgundy in battle and annexed Burgundy proper. However, the wider Burgundian domains (the Low Countries) were not annexed by France. I wonder: if they had been annexed back then in the 15th century, would they have eventually achieved independence, or would they have simply been absorbed into a greater French culture?
