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Valois Burgundy at its greatest extent under Charles the Bold. From the late 14th century to the late 15th century, the Valois dukes of Burgundy, a cadet branch of the French royal House of Valois, ruled over a domain that ultimately covered much of eastern France and the Low Countries. [1]
Coat of arms of the Free County of Burgundy until the 13th century. Coat of arms of the Free County of Burgundy after the 13th century. This is a list of the counts of Burgundy, i.e., of the region known as Franche-Comté, not to be confused with the Duchy of Burgundy, from 982 to 1678.
The city of Besancon had many fairs and many renaissance structures were constructed. [3] The county was invaded by France in 1668, as part of the War of Devolution. Multiple cities surrendered to the French after little fighting, but were returned as part of the wider Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle later that year.
Burgundy (/ ˈ b ɜːr ɡ ən d i / BUR-gən-dee; French: Bourgogne ⓘ; Burgundian: Bregogne) is a historical territory and former administrative region and province of east-central France. The province was once home to the Dukes of Burgundy from the early 11th until the late 15th century.
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (French pronunciation: [buʁɡɔɲ fʁɑ̃ʃ kɔ̃te] ⓘ; lit. ' Burgundy-Free County ', sometimes abbreviated BFC; Arpitan: Borgogne-Franche-Comtât) is a region in eastern France created by the 2014 territorial reform of French regions, from a merger of Burgundy and Franche-Comté.
It was conquered a second time in 1674, and finally was ceded to France in the Treaty of Nijmegen (1678), leaving the Holy Roman Empire as a result. Enclaves such as Montbéliard remained outside French control. 1771 map of Burgundy, Franche-Comté and Lyonnais by Rigobert Bonne. The Franche-Comté was one of the last parts of France to have ...
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The historical Burgundy correlates with the border area of France and Switzerland and includes the major modern cities of Geneva and Lyon. As a political entity, Burgundy existed in a number of forms with different boundaries, notably, when it was divided into Upper and Lower Burgundy and Provence.