Philip of Burgundy (Admiral)

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Philipp von Burgund-Beveren in the book of statutes of the Order of the Golden Fleece in The Hague , Royal Library, KB 76 E 10, folio 80r

Philip of Burgundy (* around 1450; † July 4, 1498 in Bruges ), Lord of Beveren , was a son of Anton of Burgundy , who in turn was an illegitimate son of Duke Philip the Good .

In 1478 he was made a Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece . Through his marriage to Anna von Borsselen, the daughter of Wolfhart VI. Borsselen of (the marriage contract comes on 4 March 1485), which earned Zeeland power base of the house Borsselen : Zandenburg , Veere , Vlissingen , Brouwer Haven , West Chapel and Duyvelandt . On May 31, 1486 he took the oath as Lord of Veere after his father-in-law had died a few days earlier on April 29, 1486 . In 1491 he followed Cornelis van Bergen as Admiral of the Netherlands.

Philipp and Anna had four children:

literature

  • Karl Theodor Wenzelburger:  Burgundy, Philipp von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 618.
  • Detlev Schwennicke: European Family Tables Volume III.2 (1983) Plate 322.
  • Raphael de Smedt (ed.): Les chevaliers de l'ordre de la Toison d'or au XVe siècle. Notices bio-bibliographiques. (Kieler Werkstücke, D 3) 2nd, improved edition, Verlag Peter Lang, Frankfurt 2000, ISBN 3-631-36017-7 , pp. 198f., No. 82.

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