Burgundian legacy of Charles the Bold
The Burgundian legacy of Charles the Bold , the last Burgundian Duke from the House of Burgundy-Valois , comprised the hereditary lands that he bequeathed to his daughter Maria of Burgundy as the only heir. Charles the Bold died on January 5, 1477 at the Battle of Nancy without leaving a male heir.
To the heritage belonged to the south of the two-part Duchy of Burgundy : the real Burgundy , the Franche-Comte , Mâconnais , Auxerrois , Charolais , Nevers and Rethel and in the north the Burgundian Netherlands : Boulogne , Picardie (with the Somme towns are home and the Ponthieu ) County Artois , Vermandois , Cambrai , Hainaut , Flanders , Brabant , Holland , Zealand , Mechelen , Namur , Friesland , Luxembourg , Geldern (with Zutphen and the Veluwe ), Kleve , Limburg and Liège . While the western areas of the duchy were fiefs of the French crown , the eastern areas were under feudal rule of the Holy Roman Empire .
Succession and consequences
After the death of Charles the Bold, his heir, Maria of Burgundy, married Maximilian von Habsburg on August 19, 1477 , to whom she had been engaged since 1475. Maximilian, son of the Roman-German Emperor Friedrich III. , iure uxoris became Duke of Burgundy and the Duchy became part of the Habsburg family .
Before the wedding of Mary, the French King Louis XI. the French crown fiefs given to Charles the Bold - these could not be passed on to his heir as pure man fiefs - and occupied both the actual Burgundy and the Free County as well as the northern border areas of Picardy and Artois as well as some other areas that had previously been under the rule of Charles Had confessed boldly. The occupation of the French crown fiefs led to the Burgundian War of Succession (1477-1493) , which ended with the conclusion of the Treaty of Senlis on May 23, 1493.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Victor von Kraus : Maximilian I. His life and work. Vienna 1877, p. 14 ff. ( Online ).
- ^ Karl Vocelka : The Europeanization of the Habsburg domestic power policy. In: Klaus Herbers , Florian Schuller (ed.): Europe in the 15th century. Autumn of the Middle Ages - Spring of the Modern Age? Regensburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-7917-2412-6 , p. 207
- ↑ Victor von Kraus: Maximilian I. His life and work. Vienna 1877, p. 17 ff. ( Online )
- ↑ Manfred Hollegger: The Burgundian War of Succession 1477–1493. In: (ders.): Maximilian I. (1459–1519) ruler and man of a turning point. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-17-015557-1 , p. 32.