The struggle lasts a year, but, at the end of it, the Flemings are subdued.

What could a single province effect, when its sister states, even liberty-loving Holland, had basely abandoned the common cause?
A new treaty is made, (Oct.1489).

Maximilian obtains uncontrolled guardianship of his son, absolute dominion over Flanders and the other provinces.

The insolent burghers are severely punished for remembering that they had been freemen.

The magistrates of Ghent, Bruges, and Ypres, in black garments, ungirdled, bare-headed, and kneeling, are compelled to implore the despot's forgiveness, and to pay three hundred thousand crowns of gold as its price.