Audenaerde, tapestries, 5; guildsmen from at Battle of the Spurs, 157; 202; siege of by Philip Van Artevelde, 208; besieged bPhilip the Bold, 218; besieged by men from Ghent, 225; Louis XI drives tapestry weavers from Arras to, 278; tapestry ateliers specialise in pastoral scenes, 279; country around, described, 367-368; monument to volunteers who died in Mexico, 369-370; description of Hotel de Ville, 370-376; birthplace of Margaret of Parma, 377; communal museum in Hotel de Ville, 381-382; Cloth Hall, 382-383; church of Ste. Walburge, 383-385; tapestry weaving at, 385-387; church of Notre Dame de Pamela, 387-389; Château de Bourgogne, 390; many religious institutions of, 390; sieges and battles of the past, 391-392; 413. Austria, War of the Austrian Succession, 250; Austrian troops at Fontenoy, 251; arms of, at Audenaerde, 373; Flanders during Warof the Austrian Succession, 458; under Austrian Empire, 458-459. Auxerre, marriage of Baldwin I and Judith in 863, 26. B Baldwin of Constantinople, Count of Flanders, 129-139; painting of, at Courtrai, 152; 153; 162; 189; 197; portrait of, 373. Baldwin of the Iron Arm, first Count of Flanders, 26; remains of old Bourg, 27; traces of chapel, 28; 55-56; 57; 218. Baldwin II, marries Alfrida, 34; fortifies Flemish towns, 34-35; 182. Baldwin V, Count of Flanders, tower of, at Audenaerde, 376. Baldwin VIII, signs Treaty of Arras, 189. Basina, marriage to Childeric at Tournai, 246-247; 265. Basinus, King of the Thuringians, 246. Battle of the Spurs, 58; 119; account of, 156-160; 177; 191; effects of, 192-193; 196; 224; 314. Bazaine, Marshal of France, 370. Beaconsfield, Lord, quoted, 251. Beaune, painting by Van der Weyden at, 271. Beauvais, repulses Charles the Bold, 289; 387. Béguinage, at Bruges, 33-36; origin of institution, 34-35; Grand Béguinage at Ghent, 35; description of, 209-213; Petit Béguinage at Ghent, 210; at Audenaerde, 390. Belfry, at Bruges, built above the Boterbeke, 27; history and description of, 63-67; at Courtrai, 147-148; at Ghent, 184; description of, 195-198; at Tournai, description of, 262-263; at Bruges, completed under Margaret of Austria, 340. Belgian coast, 16; Belgian barbers, 44-46; Belgian State Railway train service, 79-83; Belgian popular sports, 105-115; Belgian thrift, 216-217; Belgian State Railway, working peoples' trains, 242-245. Bellegambe, 274. Bergues, canal from Nieuport to, 104. Berthout, Gauthier, Bishop of Malines, 312. Berthout, Jean, Bishop of Malines, 314. Bertulph, Provost of St. Donatian, 37; executed at Ypres, 40-41. Bicycle racing in Belgium, 111-112.