Androuins, M., 205 Ane Aveugle. Rue de l', 13, 15, 21 Angelo, Michael, 26 Anglaises, Couvent des Dames, 23 Anna Paulowna, Grand Duchess, 233, 234 Anna, wife of William the Silent, 257 Anseremme, 274 Antoine, Duke of Brabant, 187 Antwerp: in the sixteenth century, 244, 245; cathedral sacked, 247, 248; the Spanish Fury, 248, 249; besieged in 1585, 250 _et seq._; reformers at, 253; trade goes to Amsterdam, 250; fall of, 254; Napoleon at, in 1803, 264; Orange party in 1830, 265; bombarded in 1830, 265, 266; state of, in 1803, 243; surrendered by Carnot, 224; proposal to strengthen fortifications of, 268; Cathedral, 245, 266; Church of St. Michael, 266; Grande Place, 246, 249; Hôtel de Ville, 249, 251; Marché du Vendredi, 260, 261; Rue de la Bascule, 258; Rue du Couvent, 258; Place Verte, 260, 266; Place de Meir, 257, 259; Rue Rubens, 258; Rue Sale, 258; Rue de Tournai, 253; Statue of Rubens, 260; Vleechhuis, or Vieille Boucherie, 246; walls of, 245; Wappers, 258; Cathedral of, 25, 60, 96 Aquitaine, Duke of, 280 Archduke Maximilian, 167 Archdukes Albert and Isabella, 256, 258, 259 Ardennes, state of, in the feudal period, 285, 286 Arenberg, Duc d', 192, 221 Arenberg, family of, 314, 325 Arlon, 273 Arschot, Duc d', 123 Artevelde, Jacques van, 53, 111, 166, 169 Artevelde, Philip van, 59, 92 Artois, Comte d', 46, 47, 231 Auber, 238 Augustinian Nuns, 23 Austrian Netherlands restored to the Empress Maria Theresa, 354; annexed to France, 363 Baldwin, Bras-de-Fer, real founder of Bruges, 12; defends Flanders, 13; marries Judith, 12; builds Church of St. Donatian, 13, 165 Baldwin, King of Jerusalem, 29 Baldwin of Constantinople, 131 Baldwin VII., 16 Bannockburn, 46 Bardi, money-changers at Bruges, 58 Bassenge, Nicolas, 355, 357, 359, 360 Bassenge, Thomas, 360 Bassin de Commerce at Bruges, 50 Bastille, fall of, in 1789, 357 Battle of the Dunes, 119 _et seq._ Battle of the Golden Spurs, 39 _et seq._, 46 Beaufort, Jean de, 292 Beeckmann, William, 339, 340 Beggars, The, 190, 191 Béguinage at Bruges, 23; grove of, 7 Béguinage at Ghent, 169 Béhuchet, Nicholas, 55, 56, 64 Belfry of Bruges, 5, 6, 7, 9, 173; of Ghent, 173; of Brussels, 198 Belgian Parliament passes law for harbour near Heyst, 80 Berlaimont, 189, 190 Berlaimont, Comte Florent de, 123 Bernard, St., of Clairvaux, 28 Berri, Duc de, 231 Bertulf, Provost of St. Donatian, 17 Bexley, 155 Bicycles, import duty on, 85 'Bird of Honour,' 72, 73 Black Watch, 229 Blankenberghe, new harbour near, 80; English fleet at, in 1340, 54, 135, 136 Blenheim, 371 Blyde Incompste, 182 Bois-le-Duc, 177 Bombarda, Jean Paul, 202 Boniface VIII., 43 'Bonnes Villes' of Flanders, 174 Borluut, Madame, 227