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The Pragmatic Sanction of 1549 was an edict, promulgated by The Emperor Charles V reorganizing the Seventeen Provinces.
The Seventeen Provinces were fiefs either of the Holy Roman Empire or of the kingdom of France, united under the rule of the Dukes of Burgundy, hence the name Burgundian Netherlands. The Pragmatic sanction transformed this agglomeration of lands into a unified entity, of which the Habsburgs would be the heirs.
After Charles' abdication, the Seventeen Provinces passed to his son Philip II of Spain.
"Pragmatic Sanction of 1549"