Marlborough, Duke of, captures Tournai, 250; wins Battle of Audenaerde, 391; recalled in peasant nursery song, 391-392; takes Antwerp after Battle of Ramillies, 458. Marot, Clement, 428. Marvis Towers at Tournai, 265. Massé, 341. Matsys, Quentin, life and principal works, 401-403. Matthew, Duke of Lorraine, 122. Maurice, Count of Nassau, wins Battle of the Dunes, 96-98; 465; captures Sluys, 468. Maximilian, Emperor, 51; statue of, 62; conflict with Bruges, 71; marriage to Marie of Burgundy, 294; 333; Regent of Flanders, 334; fondness for daughter, Margaret of Austria, 337; death, 338; 345; 347; 411. Maximilian, Emperor of Mexico, 369. Memling, Hans, at Bruges, 295-296; works of, in Hospital of St. Jean, 296-298; other notable paintings, 298-299; 307; in collection of Margaret of Austria, 341. Mercator, 431. Merghelynck Museum at Ypres, 139-140; 304. Meunier, Constantin, statue of _pecheur des crevettes_, 93; painting at Courtrai, 160. Michelle, first wife of Philip the Good, 183; death of, 233-234. Middleburg, paintings by Van der Weyden at, 309. Minnewater, 33; view of Notre Dame from, 50; formerly chief harbour of Bruges, 71-72. Molinet, Jean, 341. Mons, capital of Hainaut, 130; Flemish name for, 150; 219; Hotel de Ville, 228; 243; 252. Montalembert, quoted, 388. Montanus, Arias, supervises _Biblia Regia_, 426; opinion of Christopher Plantin, 427; 431. Morat, Battle of, 291. Moretus, Balthazar I, 432. Moretus, Edouard, sells Plantin-Moretus museum to city of Antwerp, 432. Moretus, Jean I, marries Martina, daughter of Christopher Plantin, 429; 431; 432; tomb in the Cathedral, 441; employs Rubens, 443; friend of Rubens, 448. Moretus, Jean II, 431-432. Montereau, murder of John the Fearless at, 220. _Morte d'Ypres, la_ (the Death of Ypres), 117; 122; 123; 144. Motley, cited, 413. N Nancy, siege of, 291; death of Charles the Bold before, 292; 295; 333. Namur, 312. Napoleon, saves Chapel of the Holy Blood, 56; 94; 282; 330; 358; 358-359; removes tapestries from Audenaerde, 376; at Antwerp, 460. Nauwelaerts, official bell ringer of Bruges, 66. Neerwinden, Battle of, 459. Nicholas V, Pope, 340. Nicholas de Verdun, 277. Nieuport, at time of the Crusades, 13; receives charter from Philip of Alsace, 55; some famous sieges of, 95; Battle of the Dunes, 96-98; Chambers of Rhetoric, 99; Tower of the Templars, Cloth Hall and church of Notre Dame, 99-101; the Yser River, locks and canals, 103-104; 465; 473. Norsemen, anarchy resulting from invasions of, 36; capture Tournai, 248; 256; 259; burn church at Audenaerde, 383.