Jacqueline, her birth, 125;
forced to marry Duke John of Brabant, 127;
part of her domains ceded by him, 131;
disagreement with her husband, 132;
rates him for two hours at Tervueren, 134;
flees from Court, 137;
enters Brussels in triumph, 141;
captures Heusden and Gertruidenberg, 143;
appeals to the Pope to dissolve her marriage with John and marries
Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, 163;
her letter to Humphrey, 165, 166;
surrenders at Mons, 167;
her escape, 167, 168;
secretly marries Franche de Borselle, 170;
dies of consumption, 170
_Jean sans Peur_, his characteristics, 125
Jews, outbreaks against, 241;
the Dancers cause massacre of, 242
John of Arkel puts Louvain under interdict 84
John of Louvain, theft of consecrated wafers by, 243
John the Pitiless, in sub-deacon's orders at seventeen, 128;
his oppression and cruelty, 129;
resigns his See and marries, 131;
demands fresh concessions, 136;
Estates oppose him, 142;
dies by poisoning, 162
Jonathan of Enghien, a Hebrew fanatic, 243
Jury, origin of the, 48
K
Kegel, Alderman, 145, 146;
escapes from Brussels, 153
Kelderman, Jan, designer of Tower of Saint Rombold, 197
Keldermans, the, a remarkable family, 197-201, 205, 208
L
Lambert Balderick, real founder of Louvain, 41;
builds and endows Saint Peter's, Louvain, 42
Lambert Longbeard, Count of Louvain, 41
Lambert Long Col claims Duchy of Lotharingia, 21
Léau, Saint Leonard's Church at, 306
Leyden, Wouter Vander, heads rioters, 88;
chosen as a city captain, 89;
murdered, 91
Liége, diocese of, 9
Lierre, old church at, 305
Lierre, Town Hall of, bell taken from Braine, hung in, 165
_Lignages_, or clans, 50, 51
Long Col, house of, 13-21
Lotharingia, monastic domains of,
in lay hands, 12;
invaded by Charles of France, 19
Louis of Maele. 71, 107, 120
Louvain, old Bourg of, 41;
Lambert Balderick, real founder of, 41;
grant of charter from Winceslaus, 76;
revolution of 1360 at, 95;
Church of Saint Peter at, 289
Low Country, features of, and trade in, 31-34
M
Maeseyck, illuminated copy of the Gospels in old church at, 173
Maison du Roi, La, 202
Marguerite of Maele, a rich young widow, 119, 120, 125
Marsdale, Jan van, sculptor, 197
Martin V., Pope, his letters to Duke John, 130
Marvis, Bishop Walter de, a great church-builder, 193
Matthew de Layens, builder of Louvain Town Hall, 318-324
Mechlin, architecture of, 302
Mechlin Cathedral, 301
Merchants' Guild, 47, 48, 89, 90
Metsys, Quentin, a famous painter, 330, 347, 350
Mons, siege of, 165
Monstrelet quoted, 133
Montenaeken, battle of, called 'Saint Lambert's triumph,' 277
Municipal organisation of towns in Brabant, 47 _et seq._
N
Nivelles, Abbey of, founded by Saint Gertrude, 6
Nivelles, specimen of Romanesque architecture at, 188;
commerce of, 189;
features of, 190;
the old Minster, 190-192
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