Imperial Flanders

English

Proper noun

Imperial Flanders

1. The (smaller) part of the countship of Flanders, east of the Scheldt (Escaut), for which the count did not pay homage as vassal of the French king but to the Holy Roman Emperor.

   Imperial Flanders included the early-medieval countship of Aalst (Alost).

Antonyms

• Crown Flanders

Translations

part of Flanders

• Dutch: Rijksvlaanderen
• French: Flandre impériale
• German: Reichsflandern