Duchy of Brabant

Duchy of Brabant
Hertogdom Brabant (Dutch)
Duché de Brabant (French)
Ducatus Brabantiae (Latin)
1183/1190–1406/1797
Flag of Brabant
Flag
Coat of arms of the Dukes of Brabant
Coat of arms
The Duchy of Brabant within the Seventeen Provinces of the Low Countries and the borders of the Holy Roman Empire (thick line)
The Duchy of Brabant within the Seventeen Provinces of the Low Countries and the borders of the Holy Roman Empire (thick line)
Status
CapitalBrussels
Religion
Roman Catholicism
Government Feudal Duchy
Duke of Brabant 
• 1183/1184–1235
Henry I (first)
• 1792–1797
Francis I (last)
Historical eraMiddle Ages
• Established
1183
• Inherited by Duchy of Burgundy
1430
• Inherited by House of Habsburg
1482
• Inherited by Habsburg Spain
1556
30 January 1648
7 March 1714
18 September 1794
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Landgraviate of Brabant
Burgundian Netherlands
Dutch Republic
Deux-Nèthes
Dyle (department)
Today part ofBelgium
Netherlands

The Duchy of Brabant, a state of the Holy Roman Empire, was established in 1183. It developed from the Landgraviate of Brabant of 1085–1183, and formed the heart of the historic Low Countries. The Duchy comprised part of the Burgundian Netherlands from 1430 and of the Habsburg Netherlands from 1482, until it was partitioned after the Dutch revolt of 1566–1648.

The 1648 Peace of Westphalia ceded present-day North Brabant (Dutch: Noord-Brabant) to the Generality Lands of the Dutch Republic, while the reduced duchy remained part of the Habsburg Netherlands until French Revolutionary forces conquered it in 1794 — a change recognized by the Treaty of Campo Formio in 1797.

Today all the duchy's former territories, apart from exclaves, are in Belgium except for the Dutch province of North Brabant.