The Pragmatic Sanction of 1549 was an edict, promulgated by Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, reorganising the Seventeen Provinces of the present-day Netherlands...

A pragmatic sanction is a sovereign's solemn decree on a matter of primary importance and has the force of fundamental law. In the late history of the...

Provinces of the former Burgundian Netherlands were formed into an integral union by Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor in the Pragmatic Sanction of 1549. In 1795...

of Guelders to the Emperor. Emperor Charles V united Guelders with the Seventeen Provinces of the Habsburg Netherlands by the Pragmatic Sanction of 1549...

Low Countries and often stayed at the Palace of Coudenberg in Brussels. By the Pragmatic Sanction of 1549, Charles V declared the Seventeen Provinces a...

of Overijssel was the same as the Stadtholder of the Lordship of Frisia. The Lordship became part of the Burgundian Circle by the Pragmatic Sanction of...

by the Pragmatic Sanction of 1549, while retaining existing customs, laws, and forms of government within the provinces. The Pragmatic Sanction transformed...

Emperor's Pragmatic Sanction of 1549, which established the Seventeen Provinces as an entity held by a single prince. Following a series of abdications...

Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire as Charles V Charles V proclaimed the Pragmatic Sanction of 1549 eternally uniting Namur with the other lordships of the...

Netherlands"). Only he and his son ever used this title. The Pragmatic Sanction of 1549 determined that the Provinces should remain united in the future...