Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Bayan dawowar Maximilian, Philip ya taka rawa sosai wajen murkushe tawayen biranen Flemish (Ypres, Bruges da Ghent). Lokacin da aka kama Maximilian a Bruges, Philip ya ba da kansa don ɗaukar matsayinsa a matsayin ɗan garkuwa, don a saki Maximilian a ranar 16 ga Mayu, 1488 a ƙarƙashin yanayin ba da ƙarin 'yanci ga biranen. Amma, da zarar an sake shi, Maximilian ya ƙi girmama yarjejeniyar. Da yake ya yi baƙin ciki ƙwarai domin cin amanar Ubangijinsa, Filibbus ya bi biranen da suka yi tawaye kuma ya zama shugaban rundunarsu. Ya yi ƙoƙarin kulla kawance da Sarki Charles VIII na Faransa, amma ya sami goyon bayan soja kaɗan. Sauran yunkurin yin kawance da
Dutch Hooks, Brabant ko Liège ba su kai ga komai ba. An tilasta masa mika wuya ga sansaninsa na karshe, Sluis, a ranar 12 ga Oktoba, 1492. A cikin almara "Weisskunig", Maximilian daga baya zai yi iƙirarin cewa "sarkin shuɗi" ya sayi Philip; Koenigsberger ya yi jayayya cewa dangin Cleves sun "yi shekaru" a cikin amincinsa kuma sauyawar Philip "saboda haka ba zai iya zama abin mamaki ga mutanen zamaninsa ba".