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Burgundy is a region of Western Europe which has existed as a political entity in a number of forms with very different boundaries. Two of these entities have been called the Kingdom of Burgundy, and a third Kingdom of Burgundy was very nearly created.


Duchy of Burgundy
Duchy of Burgundy

The Duchy of Burgundy was a feudal territory once existing within the France in the Middle Ages. It roughly conforms to the modern Bourgogne. Existing between 843 and 1477, the Duchy was ruled by a succession of Duke of Burgundy, whose extinction with the death of Charles the Bold in 1477 led to the Duchy being absorbed into the French crown...
 was a feudal fief within the Kingdom of France.






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Burgundy is a region of Western Europe which has existed as a political entity in a number of forms with very different boundaries. Two of these entities have been called the Kingdom of Burgundy, and a third Kingdom of Burgundy was very nearly created.

First and second Kingdoms of Burgundy

  • The territory ruled by the Kings of the Burgundians
    Burgundians

    File:Roman Empire 125.svgThe Burgundians were an East Germanic language Germanic tribes which may have emigrated from mainland Scandinavia to the island of Bornholm, whose old form in Old Norse still was Burgundarholmr , and from there to mainland Europe....
     (an East Germanic tribe) between the late 4th century and the 530s, when the Burgundians were conquered by the Franks
    Franks

    The Franks or Frankish people were a West Germanic ethnic group first identified in the 3rd century as living north and east of the Lower Rhine River....
     is sometimes called the First Kingdom of Burgundy.
  • The second Kingdom of Burgundy, also called the Kingdom of Arles
    Kingdom of Arles

    File:Map Kingdom Arelat EN.pngThe Kingdom of Burgundy or of Arles was a Franks dominion surrounding Arles, established in 933, by combining Upper Burgundy and Lower Burgundy....
    , existed from 933 to 1378. It occupied some of the lands of the former kingdom of Middle Francia
    Middle Francia

    Middle Francia designates the short-lived realm created for Holy Roman Emperor Lothair I wedged between East Francia and West Francia. A natural outcome of the Franks tradition of treating the res publica as private property, it was created in the partition of Louis the Pious' legacy that was embodied in the 843 Treaty of Verdun....
    , the central slice created by the three way division of the Frankish Empire
    Frankish Empire

    Francia or Frankia, later also called the Frankish Empire , Frankish Kingdom , Frankish Realm or occasionally Frankland, was the territory inhabited and ruled by the Franks from the 3rd to the 10th century....
     by the Treaty of Verdun
    Treaty of Verdun

    In the Treaty of Verdun-sur-Meuse of 843 the three surviving sons of Louis the Pious, Charlemagne's grandsons, divided his territories, the Frankish Empire, into three kingdoms....
     (843). It was created by the unification of Upper Burgundy
    Upper Burgundy

    File:Karte Hoch und Niederburgund EN.pngUpper Burgundy is the part of Burgundy east of the Jura mountains, but in fact encompassing both sides of the Jura mountains range....
     and Lower Burgundy
    Lower Burgundy

    File:Karte Hoch und Niederburgund EN.pngLower Burgundy was a historical kingdom in Provence, in southeastern France. Lower Burgundy is sometimes called the Kingdom of Arelat or incorrectly the Kingdom of Cisjurane Burgundy....
    . This second Kingdom of Burgundy was absorbed into the Holy Roman Empire
    Holy Roman Empire

    The Holy Roman Empire was a union of territories in Central Europe during the Middle Ages and the Early modern Europe under a Holy Roman Emperor....
     under Conrad II in 1032, as the Kingdom of Arles
    Kingdom of Arles

    File:Map Kingdom Arelat EN.pngThe Kingdom of Burgundy or of Arles was a Franks dominion surrounding Arles, established in 933, by combining Upper Burgundy and Lower Burgundy....
    . It was one of the three kingdoms within the medieval Empire, the others being the Kingdom of Germany
    Kingdom of Germany

    The Kingdom of Germany grew out of East Francia in the tenth century.The eastern partition of the Treaty of Verdun of 843 was never entirely Frankish and consisted also of large populations of Saxons, Bavarii, Thuringii, Alemanni and Frisii....
     and the Kingdom of Italy
    Kingdom of Italy (medieval)

    The Kingdom of Italy was a creation of the Lombards who invaded the Italian peninsula, following the destruction of the Ostrogothic Kingdom, in 568....
    . The Kingdom of Burgundy or Arles gradually lost its territorial integrity, and it ceased to exist in 1378, when the remnants were absorbed by France.


Other entities called Burgundy

The Duchy of Burgundy
Duchy of Burgundy

The Duchy of Burgundy was a feudal territory once existing within the France in the Middle Ages. It roughly conforms to the modern Bourgogne. Existing between 843 and 1477, the Duchy was ruled by a succession of Duke of Burgundy, whose extinction with the death of Charles the Bold in 1477 led to the Duchy being absorbed into the French crown...
 was a feudal fief within the Kingdom of France. It roughly conforms to the modern French region
Régions of France

France is divided into 26 regions or r?gions , of which 21 are in continental metropolitan France, one is the island of Corsica, and four lie overseas....
 of Bourgogne
Bourgogne

Bourgogne is one of the 26 regions of France of France.The region of Bourgogne is both larger than the old Duchy of Burgundy and smaller than the area ruled by the Duke of Burgundy....
.

The Free County of Burgundy was an entity within the Holy Roman Empire
Holy Roman Empire

The Holy Roman Empire was a union of territories in Central Europe during the Middle Ages and the Early modern Europe under a Holy Roman Emperor....
 from 867 to 1678, since when it has been the French region (originally province) of Franche-Comté
Franche-Comté

Franche-Comt? the former County of Burgundy, as distinct from the neighbouring Duchy of Burgundy, is an regions of France and a Provinces of France of eastern France....
.

The Burgundian lands, and the failed proposal to create a third Kingdom of Burgundy

The House of Burgundy
House of Burgundy

The House of Burgundy was a cadet branch of the Capetian dynasty, descending from Robert I, Duke of Burgundy, a younger son of Robert II of France....
 was a dynasty that ruled the Duchy of Burgundy from 1032 to 1361, and the Free County of Burgundy from 1330, when the wife of Eudes IV
Eudes IV, Duke of Burgundy

Eudes IV was Duke of Burgundy from 1315 until his death and Count of Burgundy and Count of Artois between 1330 and 1347. He was the second son of Robert II, Duke of Burgundy and Agnes of France, Duchess of Burgundy....
 inherited it from her mother, until 1361. It did not rule the Kingdom of Burgundy.

From 1361 to 1477 both the Duchy of Burgundy and the Free County of Burgundy were ruled by a cadet branch of the House of Valois (see Dukes of Burgundy). By the mid 15th century this dynasty also ruled most of the provinces in the Low Countries
Low Countries

The Low Countries, the historical region of de Nederlanden, are the country on low-lying land around the river delta of the Rhine, Scheldt, and Meuse River rivers....
, making it one of the most powerful ruling houses in Western Europe. The territories of the House of Valois-Burgundy
House of Valois-Burgundy

The term "Valois Dukes of Burgundy" is employed to refer to the dynasty which began after John II of France granted the Duchy of Burgundy to his youngest son, Philip the Bold...
 in the Low Countries were never part of Burgundy proper, but the combined territories of the ruling house are sometimes referred to as the "Burgundian lands". However all of these lands were notionally held by the House of Valois-Burgundy as feudal vassals of either the King of France or the Holy Roman Emperor. Duke Charles the Bold conceived the project of combining his territories into a kingdom of Burgundy with himself as its fully independent monarch, and even persuaded the Emperor Frederick
Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor

Frederick III of Habsburg was elected as King of the Romans as the successor of Albert II, Holy Roman Emperor in 1440.Born in Innsbruck, he was the son of Duke Ernest of Austria from the Leopoldinian line of the Habsburg family ruling Inner Austria, i.e....
 to assent to crown him king at Trier
Trier

Trier is a city in Germany on the banks of the Moselle River. It is the oldest city in Germany, founded in or before 16 BC. Trier is not the only city claiming to be Germany's oldest, but it is the only one that bases this assertion on having the longest history as a city, as opposed to a mere settlement or army camp....
. The ceremony, however, did not take place owing to the Emperor's precipitate flight by night (September 1473), occasioned by his displeasure at the Duke's attitude.

See also

  • Duchy of Burgundy
    Duchy of Burgundy

    The Duchy of Burgundy was a feudal territory once existing within the France in the Middle Ages. It roughly conforms to the modern Bourgogne. Existing between 843 and 1477, the Duchy was ruled by a succession of Duke of Burgundy, whose extinction with the death of Charles the Bold in 1477 led to the Duchy being absorbed into the French crown...
  • County of Burgundy
    County of Burgundy

    The Free County of Burgundy, in German Freigrafschaft Burgund, was a medieval county , within the traditional province and modern French region Franche-Comt?, whose very French name is still reminiscent of the unusual title of its count: Freigraf ....