 The marriage of his parents was conceived during the First Italian War in the context of a political alliance, known as the "Holy League" or League of Venice, established against the House of Valois with the goal of encircling the Kingdom of France by forming a ring of hostile powers around it.Dynastic accidents eventually brought in the person of "Charles of Ghent", as he was known at his birth, the four inheritances of Burgundy, Castile, Aragon, and Austria.The Burgundian inheritance included the Habsburg Netherlands, which consisted of a large number of the lordships that formed the Low Countries and covered modern-day Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg.