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Burgundy as part of the Frankish Empire between 534 and 843. The Duchy of Burgundy was a successor of the earlier Kingdom of the Burgundians, which evolved out of territories ruled by the Burgundians, an East Germanic tribe that arrived in Gaul in the 5th century.
Duke of Burgundy (French: duc de Bourgogne) was a title used by the rulers of the Duchy of Burgundy, from its establishment in 843 to its annexation by the French crown in 1477, and later by members of the House of Habsburg, including Holy Roman Emperors and kings of Spain, who claimed Burgundy proper and ruled the Burgundian Netherlands.
the Duchy of Burgundy west of the Saône. The two kingdoms of Upper and Lower Burgundy were reunited in 933 as the Kingdom of Burgundy. This kingdom in turn was absorbed into the Holy Roman Empire under Conrad II in 1032, and known from the 12th century as the Kingdom of Arles. The Duchy of Burgundy was annexed by the French throne in 1004.
May 24, 2018 · The conceptions of “Burgundy” as a “state” and the “Burgundian Netherlands” as its real economic and political heartland have mostly been the result of works such as Bartier 1970, Prevenier and Blockmans 1986, Prevenier 1998, and more recently Schnerb 1999 and Schnerb 2005. Some classic 19th- and early-20th-century books shaped the idea of a separate “Burgundian history” with the emphasis gradually shifting from the role of Burgundy in the Hundred Years War toward the vibrant ...
On his father’s death his eldest son, John ‘the Fearless’, inherited the duchy of Burgundy and the county of Charolais: less than a year later, in March 1405, on the death of his mother, Marguerite de Male, he was to pick up the major part of his maternal inheritance, namely the counties of Flanders, Artois and Burgundy (Franche-Comté).
Philip the Bold (1342 - 1404) He took over the Duchy of Burgundy from his father, the King of France, and married a wealthy heiress: Margaret III of Flanders. Thanks to this union, he also held power over Flanders! Burgundy became a political power that had just as much authority as the Kingdom of France... and it was also a very wealthy province.
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The duchy encompassed the chiefly agrarian regions in the heartland as well as the Dutch seaports on the North Sea. Also subject to the dukes were ecclesiastical territories such as the bishopric of Liège and the rich trading cities of Flanders. Holding these different territories together under one rule presented a challenge.
