Zeeland

The County of Zeeland comprised islands and tidal flats in the Scheldt and Meuse delta, with its seat at Middelburg. In 1337 William of Avesnes held it as a Holland fief, following the Treaty of Paris of 1323.

Philip the Good of Burgundy annexed Zeeland in 1432; after 1482 it passed to the Habsburgs with the Burgundian inheritance. It joined the revolt against Spain and from 1581 was a province of the Dutch Republic, until the Batavian Revolution ended the county in 1795.