GENEALOGICAL TABLES PAGE _I. Table of the Counts of Flanders from Baldwin I. to Baldwin V. facing_ 36 _II. Table of the Counts of Flanders from Baldwin V. to Baldwin VII. facing_ 82 _III. Table of the Counts of Flanders from Baldwin VIII. to Guy de Dampierre facing_ 162 _IV. Table of the Counts of Flanders from Guy de Dampierre to Marguerite of Maele facing_ 208 _V. Table of the Counts of Flanders from Philippe le Hardi to Philippe le Beau facing_ 304 ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE _The Belfry of Bruges (photogravure) Frontispiece_ _Godshuis on the Quai Vert_ 1 _View of the Quai Vert_ 12 _Palais du Franc and the Hôtel de Ville from River_ 13 _The Crypt of St. Basil's_ 16 _The Church of Notre Dame_ 19 _Charles the Good (from an old Bruges print)_ 38 _Angle of the Rue de l'Ane Aveugle_ 56 _The Porch of Notre Dame_ 79 _A Renaissance Gable_ 89 _Hôtel de Ville and Chapel of the Holy Blood_ 93 _The Minne Water Bridge and Round Tower_ 97 _Baptistry Chapel in the Crypt of St. Basil's_ 100 _Porch of the Chapel of St. Basil_ 101 _Godshuis in the Rue du Marécage_ 104 _The Palais du Franc_ 109 _Interior of Notre Dame_ 130 _Hospital of St. John and South Aisle of Notre Dame_ 132 _The Beguinage, with Tower of Notre Dame_ 134 _Old Houses on the Roya_ 151 _A Fourteenth Century Chimney_ 163 _Thirteenth-Century Iron Gates in Belfry_ 168 _Madonna and Niche_ 194 _Maele Castle_ 196 _The Hôtel de Ville_ 206 _Porte de Gand_ 219 _Old Houses at Damme_ 235 _The Church of St. Sauveur_ 238 _The Lepers' Hospital, Marché au Fil_ 241