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, Blijde Inkomst, or Blijde Intocht; French: Joyeuse Entrée) is the official name used for the ceremonial royal entry, the first official peaceable visit of a reigning monarch, prince, duke or governor into a city, mainly in the Duchy of Brabant or the County of Flanders and occasionally in France, Luxembourg, Hungary, or Scotland, usually coinciding with recognition by the monarch of the rights or privileges to the city and sometimes accompanied by an extension of them.[1][2][3][4]

The most recent Joyous Entries took place in 2013 in honour of the Belgian king.

  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