Harelbeke Peace Conference
The Harelbeke Peace Conference was a formal meeting in 1381 between the city of Ghent and the states of Brabant, Flanders, Hainaut and Liège to end the war between Ghent and the Count of Flanders.
During the negotiations, the two Ghent delegates, Simon Bette and Gyselbrecht de Gruytere, were murdered by their leader Pieter van den Bossche. On hearing this news, the peace conference broke up and the fighting resumed. Through the intervention of the Prince-Bishop of Liège, Arnold of Horne and the Duchess of Brabant, Joanna, a new meeting was started in Tournai. However, again everything turned unsuccessful and ended in the Battle of the Beverhoutsveld. In a surprising twist of events, the count had to swim through the fortification canals out of the city of Bruges and flee to Lille.
References
- M. Timperman. Chronologie van Harelbeke. Onbekende uitgever. 1964. p. 22
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