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4 days ago · Louis XV was the great-grandson of Louis XIV and the third son of the Duke of Burgundy (1682–1712), and his wife Marie Adélaïde of Savoy, who was the eldest daughter of Victor Amadeus II, Duke of Savoy.
3 days ago · Afterwards, Charles imprisoned Louis in the city of Péronneand coerced him to sign a treaty favourable to Burgundy with conditions such as forfeiting the Duke of Burgundy from paying homage, guarantying Charles' sovereignty of Picardy, and abolishing French jurisdiction on Burgundian subjects.[176]
Jun 27, 2024 · The wives of all three of King Philip’s adult sons hailed from the neighboring region of Burgundy. Louis (the future Louis X) married Margaret, daughter of the Duke of Burgundy.
Jul 9, 2024 · Louis VIII, king of France from 1223 to 1226, is not a monarch who has drawn significant attention from historians. His reign of just three years stands trapped between the nearly 43-year reign of his father, Philip Augustus, and the nearly 44-year reign of his son, Louis IX (later Saint Louis).
Jul 8, 2024 · Charles was the last of the great dukes of Burgundy (1467 to 1477). The son of Duke Philip III the Good of Burgundy, Charles was brought up in the French manner as a friend of the French dauphin, afterward Louis XI of France, who spent five years in Burgundy before his accession. Although he had.
6 days ago · The Dauphin liked to surround himself at Meudon with his family, his friends and courtisans, in particular Marie-Adelaide of Savoy the Duchess of Burgundy, Marie-Anne of Bourbon (1666- 1739), his daughter-in-law, the Princess of Conti, and Louise Francoise de Bourbon, Duchess of Bourbon, (1673–1743), her two half-sisters, Louis ...
5 days ago · The Burgundians, the Low Country empire that time forgot. In the Middle Ages, Burgundy was a fabulously wealthy realm that spread over a huge swathe of medieval Europe, eventually seating their power in modern Belgium and the Netherlands.
