{"product_id":"the-flemish","title":"THE FLEMISH","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe word \"Flemish\" refers to the people living in the North of Belgium and France and the South of the Netherlands.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Flemish, also called \"Flemings\", are of Germanic (Frank) origin.  When the Franks invaded what is now Belgium, they settled between the sea and the \"charcoal forest\", a dense old-growth forest of beech and oak, which extended to the Rhine and formed a natural boundary during the Late Iron Age through Roman times into the Early Middle Ages.\u003c\/p\u003e \n\n\u003cp\u003eThe county of Flanders was created 864 when the French \u003cbr\u003e\nking Charles the Bald granted it as a fief to his son-in-law \u003cbr\u003e\nBaldwin with the Iron Arm. Flanders was a part of France but distinguished itself from the rest of the country with its Germanic Flemish population and close economic ties to England.\u003c\/p\u003e \n\n\u003cp\u003eUnlike other French fiefs it was never returned to the French king's control, instead Flanders became a part of the duke of Burgundy's possessions in 1384, which would evolve \u003cbr\u003e\ninto present day Belgium.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksWholesale","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44261288214689,"sku":"9781291768084","price":53.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0462\/1120\/3233\/files\/1k97dw69-front-shortedge-384.jpg?v=1713927331","url":"https:\/\/bookswholesale.myshopify.com\/products\/the-flemish","provider":"BooksWholesale","version":"1.0","type":"link"}