The conquered Duke was buried at Nancy, but his body was afterwards brought to Bruges by his descendant, the Emperor Charles V., and now reposes in the splendid tomb which we have seen at Notre-Dame in that city. This war had important results. It largely broke down the power of Burgundy. Charles’s daughter, =Mary=, kept the Low Countries and the _County_ of Burgundy (Imperial); but the _Duchy_ (French) reverted to the crown of France, with which it was ever after associated. The scheme of a great Middle Kingdom thus came to an end; and the destinies of the Low Countries were entirely altered. We have next to consider the dynastic events by which the Low Countries passed under the rule of the =House of Hapsburg=. In 1477, Mary of Burgundy succeeded her father Charles as Countess of Flanders, Duchess of Brabant, etc. In the same year she was married to =Maximilian of Austria=, King of the Romans, son of the Emperor Frederic III. (or IV.). Maximilian was afterwards elected Emperor on his father’s death. The children of this marriage were Philip the Handsome (Philippe-le-Beau, or le-Bel; Philippus Stok), who died in 1506, and Margaret of Austria. Philip, again, married Johanna (Juana) the Mad, of Castile, and thus became King of Castile, in right of his wife. The various steps by which these different sovereignties were cumulated in the person of Philip’s son, Charles V., are so important to a proper comprehension of the subject that I venture to tabulate them. Frederic III. (or IV.) Charles the Bold. ǁ ǁ Ferdinand = Isabella Maximilian = Mary (of Aragon) ǁ (of Castile) (of Austria) ǁ (of Burgundy) ǁ ǁ Johanna the Mad = Philippe-le-Beau (of Spain) ǁ (of Burgundy and Austria) ǁ Charles V. During the lifetime of Maximilian, who was afterwards Emperor, Mary, and her son =Philippe-le-Beau=, ruled at first in the Low Countries (for the quarrel between Maximilian and Bruges over the tutorship of Philippe, see p. 27). After the death of Isabella of Castile, Ferdinand retired to Aragon, and Philippe ruled Castile on behalf of his insane wife, Juana. Philippe died in 1506, and his sister, Margaret of Austria, then ruled as Regent in the Netherlands (for Charles) till her death in 1530. Charles V., born at Ghent in 1500, was elected to the Empire after his grandfather, Maximilian I., and thus became at once Emperor, King of Spain, Duke of Austria, and ruler of the Low Countries. (In 1516 he succeeded Ferdinand in the Kingdom of Spain, and in 1519 was elected Emperor.)