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3 days ago · Afterwards, Charles imprisoned Louis in the city of Péronne and 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.
1 day ago · Burgundy's elder son, Louis, Duke of Brittany, joined them a few weeks later. Thus, on his deathbed, Louis' heir-apparent was his five-year-old great-grandson, Louis, Duke of Anjou, Burgundy's younger son. Louis foresaw an underaged successor and sought to restrict the power of his nephew Philip II, Duke of Orléans, who, as his closest ...
2 days ago · The two younger sons were confirmed in their kingdoms and gained additional territories; most of Bavaria and Alemmannia was given to Pepin, and Provence, Septimania, and parts of Burgundy were given to Louis.
5 days ago · The crucial moment came when Charles II’s last will was published, offering the Spanish crown, in opposition to the second partition treaty, to Louis’s grandson Philip, duc d’Anjou (later Philip V). Louis’s decision to accept did not in itself provoke war.
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.
5 days ago · The arrival of the inexperienced Louis would trigger the Wars of Liège as citizens rose up against Burgundian domination, forcing the Prince-Bishop to flee. Charles the Bold, Louis’s father, who had then become Duke of Burgundy, laid siege to Liège in 1468, accompanied by the King of France, Louis XI. Louis of Bourbon.
5 days ago · Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis have been told what they need to do to make a success of lives lived as royal 'spares'.. The rise of the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh, Prince Edward and Sophie ...
