Joyous Entry

For the Joyous Entry of 1356 and the corresponding charter, see Joyous Entry of 1356.
Ferdinand Receives the Keys of the City from the Virgin of Ghent, print after a painting made by Antoon van den Heuvel for the Joyous Entry by the Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand into Ghent in 1635

A Joyous Entry (Dutch: Blijde Intrede; French: Joyeuse Entrée) is a ceremonial event marking the entry into a city by a monarch, prince, duke, or governor in parts of modern-day Belgium. Originating in the Middle Ages, it generally coincided with the affirmation or extension of the city's civic rights and privileges.

Joyous Entries are primarily associated with the historic Duchy of Brabant and County of Flanders and continue in modern-day Belgium where the most recent Joyous Entries took place in 2013. The term is also occasionally used in relation to royal entries in Medieval France, Luxembourg, Hungary, Scotland, and elsewhere.[1][2][3][4]

  1. ^ Encyclopædia Britannica Joyeuse Entrée
  2. ^ Bell & Hawell Information and Leaming: Margaret of Austria and Brou: Habsburg Political Patronage in Savoy thesis submitted by Deanna MacDonald, Department of Art History and Archaeology, McGilf University, Montreal (pdf file)
  3. ^ University of Leiden: Self-Representation of Court and City in Flanders and Brabant in the Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuries, by Wim Blockmans & Esther Donckers Archived 2007-07-26 at the Wayback Machine (pdf file)
  4. ^ The Project Gutenberg EBook Holland, The History of the Netherlands by Thomas Colley Grattan