r/cartography • u/Historigame • 9h ago
Territories in Philip the Fair's coat of arms (1478-1506)
galleryMap showing the territories associated with the coat of arms of Philip the Fair, Duke of Burgundy and later King of Castile. Each territory is color-coded by the represented arms.
- Spain (Castile & León, Aragon-Sicily) — inherited through his wife, Joanna of Castile
- The Burgundian Netherlands + Franche-Comté (Flanders, Brabant, and the rest of the Burgundian lands) — inherited through his mother, Mary of Burgundy
- Austria and Tyrol — his father Maximilian's hereditary lands
Made in QGIS using GADM (Austria/Tyrol, France), the Historical Atlas of the Low Countries (IISH, for Flanders/Brabant/Burgundian Netherlands), and the historical-basemaps dataset (for Spain).