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Duchy of Burgundy. The Duchy of Burgundy (/ ˈbɜːrɡəndi /; Latin: Ducatus Burgundiae; French: Duché de Bourgogne) emerged in the 9th century as one of the successors of the ancient Kingdom of the Burgundians, which after its conquest in 532 had formed a constituent part of the Frankish Empire. Upon the 9th-century partitions, the French ...
Anonymous portrait of Duke Philip the Bold. After the death of Duke Philip I of Burgundy in 1361, the Duchy was integrated to the royal domain of King John II of France.He later decided to give it as a fief to his youngest son, known as Philip the Bold, who was officially recognized as Duke of Burgundy and First Peer of France on 2 June 1364.
The Duchy of Burgundy is the better-known of the two, later becoming the French province of Burgundy, while the County of Burgundy became the French province of Franche-Comté, literally meaning free county. The situation is complicated by the fact that at different times and under different geopolitical circumstances, many different entities ...
The Duchy of Burgundy was an important medieval principality that emerged in the early Middle Ages. It belonged to prominent families such as the Bosonids, Robertians, and the royal Capetian dynasty. In 1363, King John the Good (Jean le Bon) gave duchies to his 3 younger sons, and Philippe thus became the first Duke of Burgundy of the Valois ...
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 ...
the County of Burgundy east of the Saône River. The two kingdoms of Upper and Lower Burgundy were reunited in 937 and absorbed into the Holy Roman Empire under Conrad II in 1032, as the Kingdom of Arles. The Duchy of Burgundy was annexed by the French throne in 1477. The County of Burgundy remained loosely associated with the Holy Roman Empire ...
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).
