The burghers, ever prompt in action, take personal possession of the child Philip, and carry on the government in his name.

A commission of citizens and nobles thus maintain their authority against Maximilian for several years.

In 1488, the archduke, now King of the Romans, with a small force of cavalry, attempts to take the city of Bruges, but the result is a mortifying one to the Roman king.
The citizens of Bruges take him.

Maximilian, with several councillors, is kept a prisoner in a house on the market-place.

The magistrates are all changed, the affairs of government conducted in the name of the young Philip alone.