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 | | When Robert died in 923, he was succeeded by his brother-in-law, Rudolph, duke of Burgundy, and not by his son Hugh, who is known in history as Hugh the Great, duke of France and Burgundy, and whose domain extended from the Loire to the frontiers of Picardy. |
 | | In the 10th century the duchy of Burgundy fell into the hands of Hugh the Great, father of Hugh- Capet, on whose death in 956 it passed to his son Otto, and, in 965, to his son Henry. |
 | | This house merged in that of Valois in 1383, by the marriage of Margaret, daughter of Louis, count of Artois, with Philip the Bold, duke of Burgundy. |
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