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See also: born at See also: Ghent about 1290
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He sprang from one of the wealthy commercial families of this See also: great See also: industrial city, his See also: father's name being probably See also: William
See also: van Artevelde
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His See also: brother See also: John, a
See also: rich See also: cloth See also: merchant, took a leading See also: part in public affairs during the first decades of the ,4th century
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See also: Jacob, who according to tradition was a See also: brewer by See also: trade, spent three years in amassing quietly a large See also: fortune
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He was twice married, the second See also: time to See also: Catherine de Coster, whose See also: family was of considerable influence in Ghent
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Not till 1337, when the out-break of hostilities between See also: France and See also: England threatened to injure seriously the industrial welfare of his native See also: town, did Jacob van Artevelde make his first appearance as a See also: political See also: leader
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As the Flemish cities depended upon England for the supply of the wool for their See also: staple industry of See also: weaving, he boldly came forward, as a tribune of the See also: people, and at a great meeting at the monastery of Biloke unfolded his scheme of an See also: alliance of the Flemish towns_ with those of See also: Brabant, See also: Holland and Hainaut, to maintain an armed
See also: neutrality in the dynastic struggle between See also: Edward III. and See also: Philip VI. of France
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His efforts were successful
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Bruges,
See also: Ypres and other towns formed a See also: league with Ghent, in which town Artevelde, with the title of captain-general, henceforth until his See also: death exercised almost dictatorial authority
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His first step was to conclude a commercial treaty with England
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The efforts of the count of See also: Flanders to overthrow the power of Artevelde by force of arms completely failed, and he was compelled at Bruges to sign a treaty (See also: June 21, 1338) sanctioning the federation of the three towns, Ghent, Bruges and Ypres, henceforth known as the Three members of Flanders." This was the first of a series of See also: treaties, made during the See also: year 1339-1340, which gradually brought into the federation all the towns and provinces of the See also: Netherlands
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The policy of neutrality, however, proved impracticable, and the Flemish towns, under the leadership of Artevelde, openly took the See also: side of the See also: English See also: king, with whom a close alliance was concluded
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Artevelde now reached the height of his power, concluding alliances with See also: kings, and publicly associating with them on equal terms
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Under his able administration trade flourished, and Ghent See also: rose rapidly in See also: wealth and importance
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His well-nigh despotic See also: rule awoke at last among his compatriots jealousy and resentment
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The proposal of Artevelde to disown the See also: sovereignty of See also: Louis, count of Flanders, and to recognize in its place that of Edward,
See also: prince of See also: Wales (the Black Prince), gave rise to violent dissatisfaction
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A popular insurrection broke out in Ghent, and Artevelde See also: fell into the hands of the See also: crowd and was murdered on the 24th of See also: July 1345
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The great services that he rendered to Ghent and to his country have in later times been recognized
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A statue was erected in his native town on the See also: Marche du Vendredi, and was unveiled by Leopold I., king of the Belgians, on the 13th of See also: September 1863
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See J
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Hutten, See also: James and Philip van Artevelde (
See also: London, 1882) ; W
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J
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See also: Ashley, James and Philip van Artevelde (London, 1883) ; P
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Nameche, See also: Les van Artevelde et leur epoque (See also: Louvain, 1887) ; L
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Vanderkindere, Le Siecle See also: des Arteveldes (Brussels, 1879)
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