Burgundian State

The Burgundian State indicates between the whole of the sovereign possessions aquises by the dukes of Burgundy of the Duché of Burgundy during nearly one century.

History

In 1363 the Duke of Burgundy Philippe Bold the (prince of the House capétienne of Valois, fourth wire of the king Jean II of France) wife the countess Marguerite III of Flanders (only daughter heiress of the richissime and powerful Count de Flandre Louis de Mâle and widowed heiress at the 11 years age of the Duchy of Burgundy of the duke Philippe Ier of Burgundy). The Comté of Flanders is then one of the richest areas of the Europe of then. Extremely of this fortune, it takes share in the Guerre One hundred Year old which opposes Charles VI of France (weak and insane) and Henri V of England while being combined to the the United Kingdom while hoping to draw from it a military power and a sovereign independence.

The Duché of Burgundy extends then over a duration of more than one century (1363-1477) by heritage and marriage until in Picardy, Champagne, Burgundian Netherlands, Belgium, Germanie, Duché of Luxembourg, Alsace, Suisse…

Dijon, Brussels, $the Hague and Lille was the administrative capitals of this powerful sovereign state, dangerous rival of kings de France and combined the United Kingdom.

Powerful the course of the dukes capétiens of Burgundy becomes most powerful then course of Europe on which it radiates by its great richness, its ostentation, its prestige, its geographical extent, its power military, political, commercial, cultural, artistic and its sumptuous festivals… and by its very prestigious Ordre of the Golden Fleece instituted by Philippe the Good to federate its vassal.

The duke Charles Bold the at the top of his power launches out in a bold policy of military conquest and alliances to make the junction between his Duché of Burgundy and the Burgundian Netherlands. In 1477 he dies in the Bataille of Nancy against the duke Rene II of Lorraine combined to his hereditary enemy Louis XI. The powerful State Bourguignon crumbles then completely. Louis XI appendix the French part of the state whereas the Germanic Roman Emperor Maximilien Ier of the Saint Worsens seizes the Germanique part of the state and the Comté of Burgundy (which it renames Cercle of Burgundy) by its marriage with the duchess Marie of Burgundy, then 20 years old (single heiress of the duke Charles Bold the).

List dukes of Burgundy of the Burgundian State

List possessions of the State Bourguignon

With its apogee in 1477 under Charles Bold the, this state includes/understands:

List fields under influence of the Burgundian State

  • Principality of Clèves

  • County of Montbeliard
  • County of Nevers
  • County of Rethel

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