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The Union of Atrecht was an accord signed on January 6, 1579 in Atrecht ( Arras), under which the southern states of the Spanish Netherlands, mostly today in Wallonia and the Nord region in France, expressed their loyalty to the Spanish king Philip II and recognised the landlord, Don Juan. The parts that signed it, were:
These parts finally ended up in support of the Spanish king Philip II together with Limburg (not to be confused with the provinces in present-day Belgium and the NetherlandsDutch redirects here. For other uses, see Dutch (disambiguation). The Netherlands ( Dutch: Nederland is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, a constitutional monarchy. It is located in northwestern Europe and borders the North Sea, Belgium) and LuxembourgThe Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (also Luxemburg is a landlocked state in the north-west of the continental European Union, bordered by France, Germany and Belgium. Grand-Duche de LuxembourgGrossherzogtum LuxemburgGroussherzogtum (Grand-Duche) Letzebuerg ( I, of which Alexander FarneseAlessandro Farnese, duke of Parma and Piacenza ( 1545 1592) was the son of Duke Ottavio Farnese, duke of Parma and Margaret, the illegitimate daughter of the Habsburg Emperor Charles V. Thus Alessandro was the nephew of Philip II of Spain and of Don John, the duke of Parma, started to his conquest of the separating parts that joined the Union of UtrechtThe Union of Utrecht ( Dutch: Unie van Utrecht is a treaty signed on January 23, 1579 in Utrecht, the Netherlands, unifying the northern provinces of the Netherlands, until then under control of Spain. The Union of Utrecht is regarded as the foundation of.
