Having treacherously obtained possession of the persons of five of his principal opponents, four of them were condemned to exile, and the fifth to death. This man was François Anneessens, Dean of the Nation of Saint Nicholas, and by trade a turner of chairs; he was seventy-three years of age, a good man and a good citizen, known and esteemed by the whole town. It was said that he had fomented sedition, but in reality he died for defending the traditional rights of his order. His head was struck off in the Grand' Place on the fifth of February 1719. He was the last of the old Brussels guildsmen to give his life for liberty.

The time-honoured civic institutions of Belgium were not destined to survive much longer; they were soon to be swept away by the backwash of the French Revolution—to bring their years to an end, as it were a tale that is told.

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VI.—Genealogical Table of the Dukes of Brabant from Philip III. to Francis

Philip III. = Jeanne (La Folle), daughter of (Philippe le Beau), | Ferdinand of Arragon and d. 1506 | Isabel of Castile | +-------------+----------+---------------------+ | | | | | | Marguerite = Charles II. = Isabel Marie, = Louis, Ferdinand I., van Gheest | (Karlekin), | of Portugal Regent King of Emperor. of | Duke of | of the Hungary d. 1564 Audenarde | Brabant | Low | | (1506-1555), | Country | | King of Spain | from | | (1517-1557), | 1530-1555 | | Emperor | | | (1519-1556), | | | d. 1558 | | | +------------------------+ +---------------+ | | | +-------+ +-----------+----------+ +------+------+ | | | | | | | | | | Marguerite, = Octavius Anne, = Philip IV. = Elizabeth, Marie = Maximilian II., Charles, Regent of | Farnese, daughter | (II. of | daughter of | Emperor, d. 1590 the Low | Duke of Maximilian | Spain) | Henry II., | d. 1576 | Country | Parma II. | d. 1598 | of France | | from 1559 | (4th wife) | | (3rd wife) | | to 1567 | | | | | | | | | +--+ | | | | | | | | | | Alexander, Philip III. Isabel, Regent = Albert, Ferdinand II., Prince of of Spain, of the Spanish Duke of Emperor, Parma, Regent d. 1621 Netherlands Brabant from d. 1637 of the Low | from 1621, 1598, | Country from | d. 1633 d. 1621 | 1578 to 1596 | | +---------+---------+ +--------------------------+ | | | | | | Philip V. Marie Anne = Ferdinand III., (of Brabant), | d. 1658 IV. (of Spain), | d. 1644 | | | | | Charles III. Leopold I., (of Brabant), Emperor, II. (of Spain), d. 1705 d. 1700 | | Charles IV. of Brabant, Emperor, d. 1741 | | Marie Therese, d. 1780 | | +-----------+-------------+------------+ | | | | | | Joseph, Leopold, Marie Caroline = Ferdinand I. of d. 1790 d. 1792 | Sicily | | | | Francis, Marie-Amélie = Louis-Philippe inaugurated | of France at Brussels | 1794, and left | immediately afterwards | Louise = Leopold I., | King of the Belgians | Leopold II., of Belgium