He gave Flemish cloth a monopoly in French markets, but he also gave Guy the benefits of the trade embargo on England: whatever was confiscated from English ships, Guy could keep. Philip was a clever politician, and he understood that his strongest move against the Flemish count was to hit him in the wooly bits. Then, he confiscated all precious metals, redeemable only by French coin, and in 1295 put an embargo on English goods. He ruled that only French coin could be used in Flanders, and that Guy must devalue other currencies from England and the Holy Roman Empire.
Philip then tightened his grasp over Flanders. His daughter was also imprisoned, but was not released, and would remain imprisoned for the remainder of her life. For doing this, he and two of his sons were imprisoned by the French king until he renounced the marriage.
In 1294, he arranged a marriage alliance between himself and the English royal family, by affiancing one of his many daughters to the Prince of Wales. As Duke of Aquitaine, Edward was a vassal of the French king.īy this time, Guy of Dampierre had forged a more amicable relationship with the English king than his mother had done, but this had greatly displeased his actual liege lord, the young King Philip IV of France. Flanders, with all the aforementioned issues bearing down upon it, and stuck as it was between the two great powers, would not escape any of this unscathed.Įdward I (right) giving homage to Philip IV of France (left). At this point, they were territories controlled by the English King Edward I. In 1294 war broke out between France and England over the areas of Gascon and Aquitane, way down in the southeast of what is today France. He had ambitions extending beyond his inherited domains, and particularly as regarded his realm’s relationships with England and Flanders. In 1285 a 17-year-old was crowned King Philip IV of France, also known as Philip the Fair. The urban patriciate, therefore, was not particularly enamoured with the Dampierre lords. Edward had wreaked his revenge through restrictions on the wool trade, and which led the towns of Flanders to suffer. He took over from his mother who had gotten herself entangled in a bit of animosity with the King of England, Edward I. In the late 1200s the Count of Flanders was a guy called…uh…Guy.
He was a prisoner of the French when his Flemings defeated the latter at the Battle of the Golden Spurs in 1302. His surcoat bears the arms of the county of Flanders.
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