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Estates-General

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Estates-General: see States-General States-General or Estates-General, diet or national assembly in which the chief estates (see estate) of a nation—usually clergy, nobles, and towns (or commons)—were represented as separate bodies.
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The king escaped to Blois, called the Estates-General there, and condemned the Duke of Guise to death, as well as his brother, the Bishop of Lorraine, in 1588.
When the Estates-General of the Netherlands granted it a 21-year monopoly to carry out colonial activities in Asia, the VOC, the first multinational corporation in the world and the first company to issue stocks entered its activities in Asia in 1602.
When the Estates-General of the Netherlands granted it a 21-year monopoly to carry out colonial activities in Asia, the VOC, the first multinational corporation in the world and the first company to issue stocks entered its activities in Asia in 1602.
 
 
 
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