Artevelde, Jacob van (Ar`tevelde, Jacob van) , a wealthy brewer of Ghent, chosen chief in a revolt against Count Louis of Flanders, expelled him, made a treaty with Edward III. as lord-superior of Flanders, was massacred in a popular tumult (1300‒1345).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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