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Flanders in the 14th Century. Dirk van Haveskerke, a young knight and son of Barend Van Haveskerke, one of the feudal lords of Bruges, witnesses the horrors and arbitrariness of the French occupiers; The people are oppressed, and the cities are plundered. Angered by the great tax burden that weighs on Flanders and because Philip the Fair does not keep his promises, Guy van Dampierre, feudal lord of the French king, resigns his fief agreement with the monarch. The Klauwaart-enthusiastic Flemings are on the side of Count Guy, the mighty Lelieaarts on the side of the French king. Barend van Haveskerke, counsel to Count Guy and his son Dirk have to go into hiding like many others. Dirk has gone into hiding with boss Romme, a loyal Klauwaart, and as a messenger, together with Zeger, son of Pieter de Coninck, experiences many dangerous adventures. Dirk's task is to free his parents from the hands of the Lelieaarts and to bring Willem van Gullik to Flanders. It is during the ultimate big settlement between the mighty French army and the Flemish craftsmen and peasants that Dirk has the pleasure of making the man who plunged his family into misery, the ships Vanschip, bite the sand.
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