 DATE: Prince Henry exclaims that Danielle is to marry a Belgian.  This was Rodmillas excuse as to why he would never see her again.  But Belgium didnt come into existence until 1830. It was  constructed as a buffer zone between France and Germany to prevent  them from going to war so often. Before 1830, what is now Belgium  was made up of regions which were repeatedly occupied by several  European kingdoms. One region might be part of France while another  was part of Spain and so on, but it wasnt a country as such yet.  The name Belgium is derived from a tribe of Gauls which roughly  lived is this region during Julius Caesars conquests of Gaul. He  wrote, Of all Gauls the Belgians are the bravest (De Bello Gallico,  book I, 1.3). So in the 16th century there werent any Belgians,  ancient or modern