List of governors of the Habsburg Netherlands

The governor (Dutch: landvoogd) or governor-general (gouverneur-generaal) of the Habsburg Netherlands was a representative appointed by the Holy Roman emperor (1504-1556), the king of Spain (1556-1598, 1621-1706), and the archduke of Austria (1716-1794), to administer the Burgundian inheritance of the House of Habsburg in the Low Countries when the monarch was absent from the territory.

The role of the governors-general significantly changed over time: initially tutors and advisors of Emperor Charles V, who lived at the Palace of Coudenberg, they served as generals during the Eighty Years' War between the Kingdom of Spain and the Dutch Republic.

Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor for Philip the Handsome Philip II of Spain Philip IV of Spain Charles II of Spain Thereafter, the French revolutionaries occupied the Low Countries until 1815.

The Emperor formally recognized the loss of these territories by the Treaty of Lunéville of 1801.

At the Congress of Vienna, in 1815, the Low Countries were re-united in a personal union under the House of Orange-Nassau.