A powerful apanage duchy of the French crown that, under the Valois dukes of Burgundy, assembled a vast composite state from Flanders to Burgundy rivalling France itself in wealth and military power.
Reverted to the French crown in 1477 after the death of Duke Charles the Bold at the Battle of Nancy, as the male Valois-Burgundy line was extinguished; the broader Burgundian inheritance in the Low Countries and Franche-Comté passed to the Habsburg dynasty through Charles's daughter Mary of Burgundy.
The atlas holds 3 border frames for Duchy of Burgundy — the shape you scrub through changes in 880 · 1050 · 1150.
Vaughan's own authoritative biography of the last Valois duke captures the Burgundian state at its height and its sudden collapse.
The standard biography-history of the Valois duke under whom Burgundy reached its zenith.