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  Philip The Good - LoveToKnow 1911
PHILIP THE GOOD (1396-1467), duke of Burgundy, son of John the Fearless, duke of Burgundy, and Margaret of Bavaria, was born at Dijon on the 13th of June 1396, and succeeded his father on the loth of September 1419.
By a treaty concluded by Philip at Amiens in April 1423 with the dukes of Brittany and Bedford, John, duke of Bedford, married Philip's sister Anne, and Arthur of Brittany, earl of Richmond, became the husband of Philip's sister Margaret.
Philip, however, himself claimed Brabant as having been bequeathed to him by his cousin Philip, the late duke, with the result that the Burgundians repulsed the troops of the duke of Gloucester, and Jacqueline was forced to recognize the duke of Burgundy as her lieutenant and heir.
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 Burgundy - LoveToKnow 1911
In 561 the kingdom of Burgundy was reconstructed by Guntram, son of Clotaire I., and until 613 it formed a separate state under the government of a prince of the Merovingian family.
After 613 Burgundy was one of the provinces of the Frankish kingdom, but in the redistributions that followed the reign of Charlemagne the various parts of the ancient kingdom had different fortunes.
In 888 the kingdom of Juran Burgundy was founded by Rudolph I., son of Conrad, count of Auxerre, and the German king Arnulf could not succeed in expelling the usurper, whose authority was recognized in the diocese of Besancon, Basel, Lausanne, Geneva and Sion.
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 Burgundy
Burgundy west of the Saône River is generally hilly; the southeast includes the southern spurs of the Jura Mts.; the center is a lowland, extending south almost to the junction of the Saône and Rhône rivers.
Burgundy nevertheless survived as a political concept, and after the partitions of the Carolingian empire two new Burgundian kingdoms were founded, Cisjurane Burgundy, or Provence, in the south (879) and Transjurane Burgundy in the north (888).
Philip and his successors, John the Fearless, Philip the Good, and Charles the Bold, acquired—by conquest, treaty, and marriage—vast territories, including most of the present Netherlands and Belgium, the then extensive duchy of Luxembourg, Picardy, Artois, Lorraine, S Baden, Alsace, the Franche-Comté, Nivernais, and Charolais.
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 Philip the Good - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Philip III, Duke of Burgundy (Philip the Good or Philippe le Bon) (July 31, 1396 – June 15, 1467) was Duke of Burgundy from 1419 until his death.
Philip accused Charles, the Dauphin of France of planning the murder of his father, which took place during a meeting between the two at Montereau, and in 1420 Philip allied himself with Henry V of England under the Treaty of Troyes.
Philip died in Bruges in 1467 and was succeeded by his son Charles the Bold.
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 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Mary of Burgundy
The Franche-Comt (the former Free County of Burgundy, as distinct from the neighbouring Duchy) is a region of eastern France.
Philip I (July 22, 1478 — September 25, 1506), sometimes called Philip the Handsome (Felipe el Hermoso) was king of Castile, son of the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I, and husband of Joanna the Mad, daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella, was the founder of the Habsburg dynasty in Spain.
MARY (1457-1482), duchess of Burgundy, only child of harles the Bold, duke of Burgundy, and his wife Isabella of iourbon, was born on the i3th of February 1457.
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 Search Results for "Burgundy"
...Mary of Burgundy, 1457-82, wife of Maximilian of Austria (later Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I), daughter and heiress of Charles the Bold of Burgundy.
...Philip the Bold, duke of Burgundy, 1342-1404, duke of Burgundy (1363-1404); a younger son of King John II of France.
Philip was head of the first union of the Low Countries since...
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 Ancestors and Family of Philip III the Good of Burgundy
Philip the Good, 1396-1467, duke of Burgundy (1419-67); son of Duke John the Fearless.
Under the Treaty of Troyes (1420) Philip recognized Henry V as heir to the French throne; the dauphin was disinherited.
Philip married Isabella of Portugal, daughter of John I 'o Falso' of Avis and Philippa of Lancaster Plantagenet, in 1430.
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Burgundy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Mary of Burgundy MARY OF BURGUNDY [Mary of Burgundy] 1457-82, wife of Maximilian of Austria (later Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I), daughter and heiress of Charles the Bold of Burgundy.
Philip the Bold PHILIP THE BOLD [Philip the Bold] 1342-1404, duke of Burgundy (1363-1404); a younger son of King John II of France.
Arras, Treaty of ARRAS, TREATY OF [Arras, Treaty of] 1 Treaty of 1435, between King Charles VII of France and Duke Philip the Good of Burgundy.
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 DragonBear History: All That: Burgundy
Philip, the young duke of Burgundy, died in 1361 (of the Black Death) without an heir, and the duchy reverted to the crown; King Jean the Good bestowed it on his fourth son, coincidentally also named Philip.
Philip married the heiress Margaret of Flanders in 1369, adding some significant territories to Burgundy including the Franche-Comte (uniting the "Two Burgundies"), Flanders, and Artois (most of modern Belgium and parts of the Netherlands).
The revenues from the Netherlands made Philip the richest prince in Western Europe, and he used this wealth to enhance his prestige: he was a patron of arts and letters, and founded his own chivalric order (the Golden Fleece), rivalling the Garter in international prestige.
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 Philip III
Philip was the son of John the Fearless and Margaret of Bavaria.
When he became duke of Burgundy at the age of 23, his first aim was to extricate himself as expeditiously as possible from the French affairs in which his father, Duke John, had been embroiled and that had led to his assassination in 1419.
Philip, whose personal tastes in clothes were relatively simple, loved to surround himself with all the pomp and pageantry that the age could command.
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 Dukes of Burgundy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Philip formed an allegiance with England, supporting the efforts of Henry V to secure the French crown until his subjects urged him to make peace with Charles VII of France.
The splendor of Burgundy during Philip's reign from 1396-1467 was unmatched in Europe.
The Dukes of Burgundy were powerful rivals with the Kings of France because of their thriving agriculture, commerce, and industry that supported a brilliant court.
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 Ancestors and Family of Isabella of Portugal
Marriage: Philip III the Good of Burgundy in 1430
Isabella married Philip III the Good of Burgundy, son of John the Fearless of Burgundy and Margaret of Bavaria Wittelsbach, in 1430.
(Philip III the Good of Burgundy was born on 31 Jul 1396 in Dijon, Burgundy and died on 15 Jun 1467 in Bruges, Belgium.)
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 Kingdoms of France - Burgundy
Burgundy (and the Swiss territories) inherited by Franconian Emperor Conrad II the Salian.
The Duchy of Burgundy began when part of the Kingdom of Burgundy was detached and assigned to France (West Francia).
Free County of Burgundy and Flanders passes to Austria.
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 Philip the Good, Burgundy, Hundred Year's War
Philip had to defend himself against several incursions in Burgundy but by and large did not involve himself militarily on the side of the English.
Philip was interested in meeting her, which both he had his wife did.
Philip died at Bruges in 1467 and passed the dukedom on to his son Charles the Bold.
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Unsurpassed in Philips reign was the sumptuous Feast of the Pheasant, held at Lille in February 1454.
Philips coffin was lowered into a vault which had been dug in front of the altar.41 The Master of the Horse raised the ducal sword and then lowered it until the point touched the ground.
The funeral of Philip the Good encapsulates the legacy and aspirations of the Valois dukes of Burgundy.
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 Philip the Good: The Apogee of Burgundy (History of Valois Burgundy) by Boydell Press
Under Philip the Good, grandson of the founder of the duchy's power, Burgundy reached its apogee.
Professor Vaughan portrays not only Philip the Good himself, perhaps the most attractive personality among the four great dukes, but the workings of the court and of one of the most efficent - if not necessarily the most popular - administrations in fifteenth-century Europe.
The central theme is Philip the Good's policy of territorial and personal aggrandisement, which culminated in his negotiations with the Holy Roman Emperor for a crown.
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 1465. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
Louis's greatest rival was Duke Philip the Good of Burgundy.
Philip was head of the first union of the Low Countries since the days of Charlemagne, a curious approximation of the ancient Lotharingia that included: the duchy and county of Burgundy, Flanders, Artois, Brabant, Luxemburg, Holland, Zealand, Friesland, Hainault.
Louis united the duchy of Burgundy with the crown and occupied the county of Burgundy (Franche Comté).
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 Burgundy - Timeline Index
Charles the Bold, last reigning duke of Burgundy (1467—77), son and successor of Philip the Good.
Philip the Handsome, (Felipe el Hermoso - Filips de Schone) was the son of the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I. Through his mother Mary of Burgundy he inherited the great...
Philip II, king of Spain and Portugal, was born at Valladolid, the only son of the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V and Isabella of Portugal.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Burgundy
The medieval political vicissitudes of the Kingdom of Burgundy are accurately outlined in E. Freeman, "Historical Geography of Europe" (ed.
The Duchy of Burgundy was one of the fiefs of the French Crown.
From the time of Philip the Good the Netherlands had been the centre of a luxurious and brilliant civilization, and Antwerp, which had replaced Bruges, whose harbour had become sand-filled, was recognized as the chief commercial city of Europe.
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 FRANCIA
Meanwhile, for a good two centuries it had played the role of a frontier, and a wild one, between Catholic Europe in the West and both Orthodoxy Muscovy and the Mongol Golden Horde in the East.
After Philip defeated John "Lackland" and his allies, including the Papal counter-Emperor, Otto (IV) of Brunswick, at Bouvines (1214), the English lost their possessions north of the Loire and thereafter steadily retreated in the south, until much diminished holdings were confirmed in 1259.
After the deaths of René the Good (1480), whose male heirs had predeceased him, and of Charles III, René's nephew, Louis XI secured the return of the Duchy of Anjou, the County of Provence, and, according to some sources, the French part of the Duchy of Bar.
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 Portrait of Antony of Burgundy by WEYDEN, Rogier van der
Antony of Burgundy was the illegitimate son of Philip the Good and Jeanne de Prelle, and fulfilled military and advisory functions at the Court of Burgundy.
In 1463 Antony of Burgundy was king of the St Sebastian Guild in Bruges.
Antony of Burgundy's expression is dignified and serene.
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 French Holiday Villas and Chateaux Rental in Burgundy - Dominique's Villas
Most opera buffs however would be surprised to discover that during the 15th century Burgundy, or as the French call it, Bourgogne, ruled over a prodigious swathe of territory as far north of the Friesian Islands, on a latitude higher than Amsterdam.
Burgundy was actually a duchy, whose dukes had such exotic names as Philip the Good and Charles the Bold.
The grandeur of old Burgundy survives in its huge churches: the medieval cathedral at Sens, the gothic extravagance at Auxerre and the Romanesque basilica of Vézelay.
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 Province of Bourgogne (Burgundy)
Burgundy's WINEs, especially those of the celebrated Cote d'Or ("Golden Slope"), are among the world's most distinguished.
Under his successors, JOHN THE FEARLESS, PHILIP THE GOOD, and CHARLES THE BOLD, Burgundy increased its territorial extent to include most of present-day Belgium and the Netherlands, as well as to Luxembourg, Alsace, and Lorraine.
Armstrong, C. England, France, and Burgundy in the 15th Century (1983); Vaughan, Richard, Philip the Bold: The Formation of the Burgundian State (1962), John the Fearless: The Growth of Burgundian Power (1966), and Philip the Good: The Apogee of Burgundy (1970).
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 Court painter of duke of burgundy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Netherlandish painter, court painter to Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, from 1387.
He was employed (1422-24) at the court of John of Bavaria, count of Holland, at The Hague, and in 1425 he was made court painter and valet de chambre to Duke Philip the Good of Burgundy.
Charles the Bold Duke of Burgundy, was born in 1433.
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 BURGUNDY - Online Information article about BURGUNDY
Good, the duchy of Burgundy returned to the crown of France.
dowry of the little Margaret of Burgundy, daughter of Mary and Maximilian, who was promised in marriage to the dauphin.
We know that the title of duke of Burgundy was revived in 1682 for a short time by.
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 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Philip the Good
In 1430 Philip's troops captured Joan of Arc and handed her over to the English to be tried for heresy.
The alliance with England was broken in 1435 when Philip attacked Calais and, under the Treaty of Arras, recognized Charles as king of France.
Joan of Arc's Second Letter to Philip (http://archive.joan-of-arc.org/joanofarc_letter_july_17_1429.html) - Translation of a letter dictated by Joan of Arc to Duke Philip on 17 July 1429.
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