Omdat zijn oudere broer Floris betrokken was bij de moord op hun vader (1298/99), werd Thomas en niet Floris de nieuwe heer van Borssele.
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Va. Thomas Van Borssele was the XIIth and last Lord of Borssele. Jan of Henault, who had married a sister of Floris V, Count of Holland, had succeeded in Holland and Seeland after the death of his nephew, Jan of Holland. His feud with Flandres was increased by his new acquisitions. As associate [8] of King Philip of France, he had attacked the Flemish from the land side as his second son William had done from the seaside near Seeland. The Flemish defeated their enemies in the glorious "Battle of the Spurs" near Courtray in 1303 and victoriously entered Seeland, the country of their friends, so as to drove the Hollanders out. At first William of Henault was beaten, but in 1304 the new Count of Holland and his drive the Flemings out of Seeland. (see P.J.Blok: History of the Netherland people Dutch Edition I, p 204-6.) In 1305 Thomas Van Borsselen, chief of a family, who had always been in favor of a Flemish-English alliance and son of an English mother, was deprived from his father's inheritage at Borssele by Jan of Henault, Count of Holland and Seeland, favorite of France. (See Joh. Kok. Vandelandsch Woordenboek.) Borssele was confiscated and from St. Martinsday 1305 to 1417 it had been under the direct jurisdiction of the province of Seeland and her sovereigns. The name Borssele [9]is an assimilated form of Borg-sele and corresponds in Seeland Flemish with the modern Dutch words Burg-Zyl of "Castle Sluice".
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