Burgundy: the kingdom that never was

Only daughter and heir of Charles the Bold. After her father’s death in 1477, she defended a disputed inheritance. Her marriage to Maximilian of Habsburg linked much of the Burgundian Netherlands to the Habsburg dynasty.

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Luis XI de Francia

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Maximilian I

Habsburg ruler whose marriage to Mary of Burgundy brought a major Burgundian inheritance into his family’s political network. His descendants connected that inheritance with the Iberian crowns and the wider monarchy of Charles V.

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Felipe I de Castilla

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Charles V

Holy Roman Emperor and ruler of a composite monarchy spanning the Iberian Peninsula, Italy, the Low Countries and the Americas. His reign was shaped by the Reformation, rivalry with France and Ottoman expansion.

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