ABSTRACT
The first Burgundian count of Flanders and his nephew, King Charles VI of France, played a larger role than did Louis of Male in ending Ghent's rebellion. Only at Ghent, and there only until 1453, did local magistrates in Flanders manage to keep their privileges inviolate against the inroads of the princes. The great towns assessed and collected taxes owed to the counts by their quarters as voted by the Members or the Common Land. The Members at times made their own tax policy. The Burgundian alliance with England was increasingly shaky after 1430, as it became evident that Henry VI's regents could not prevent the French from recovering the north. The 'Flemish school' of painting flourished mainly in the second and third quarters of the fifteenth century, the most economically prosperous and generally peaceful period of the Burgundian age.
