Louis II of Flanders

Louis II (1330–1384), called Louis of Male, succeeded his father as Count of Flanders after Crécy in 1346, abandoning his father's pro-French line. Ghent's weavers sought to impose an English marriage on him, but he escaped their control under cover of a falcon hunt in 1347 and married Margaret of Brabant.

He signed neutrality with England in 1348, giving Flanders three decades of recovery. The White Hoods revolt of 1379 overwhelmed him until French forces crushed it at Roosebeke in 1382. He died in 1384, leaving Flanders to his daughter Margaret, wife of Philip the Bold.