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2 days ago · Philip the Handsome (22 July 1478 – 25 September 1506), also called the Fair, was ruler of the Burgundian Netherlands and titular Duke of Burgundy from 1482 to 1506, as well as the first Habsburg King of Castile (as Philip I) for a brief time in 1506.
11 hours ago · The wives of all three of King Philip’s adult sons hailed from the neighboring region of Burgundy. Louis (the future Louis X) married Margaret, daughter of the Duke of Burgundy.
5 days ago · 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. While it has long vanished from the map, it was a cradle for art and architecture, as well as violence and chaos as rival dynasties fought for dominance.
1 day ago · It was commissioned by the Duke of Burgundy, Philip the Bold, who would go there to pray who asked the monks to pray for his soul. The Moses Well is still considered to represent the International Gothic style a common Renaissance thread can be found in the monumental figures and their resemblance to nature in both drapery and facial ...
3 days ago · Arms of Burgundy (the arms of his father), brisured by a label argent. At the death of his father in 1467, he became Duke of Burgundy, so he suppressed the label. [citation needed] Mary of Burgundy (1457 † 1482), duchess de Burgundy and Brabant, countess of Hainaut and Holland..., only child of the last duke of Burgundy Charles le Téméraire
3 days ago · The intrigues of the French parties culminated in the assassination of John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy, by the Dauphin Charles's partisans at Montereau-Fault-Yonne on 10 September. Philip the Good , the new duke, and the French court threw themselves into Henry's arms.
5 days ago · Charles the Bold, duke of Burgundy, had tried to establish an empire extending from the Netherlands to the Mediterranean and gradually gained control of pawned Austrian territory from Alsace to the Rhine towns of Rheinfelden and Waldshut. Along the upper Rhine, Strasbourg, Basel, and Mulhouse sought support against Burgundian pressure and found ...
