A century and a few years more succeed, during which this house and its heirs are undisputed sovereigns of the soil.
Philip the Good had already acquired the principal Netherlands, before dispossessing Jacqueline.

He had inherited, beside the two Burgundies, the counties of Flanders and Artois.

He had purchased the county of Namur, and had usurped the duchy of Brabant, to which the duchy of Limburg, the marquisate of Antwerp, and the barony of Mechlin, had already been annexed.

By his assumption of Jacqueline's dominions, he was now lord of Holland, Zeland, and Hainault, and titular master of Friesland.

He acquired Luxemburg a few years later.
Lord of so many opulent cities and fruitful provinces, he felt himself equal to the kings of Europe.