Jacob van Artevelde takes control of Ghent
1338 · Event
The Ghent merchant Jacob van Artevelde leads the Flemish cloth towns, starved of English wool by Edward III's embargo, into neutrality and then alliance with England.
On these timelines: The Hundred Years' War, The Low Countries, Master, France
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