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  2. List of counts of Burgundy - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Burgundy - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. County of Burgundy - Wikipedia

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    The region that would become Franche-Comté was then included in Upper Burgundy, centred around the city of Besançon. In 933, with the collapse of the Carolingian Empire, Lower and Upper Burgundy were re-united under King Rudolph II [1] as the Kingdom of Arles (Arelat). In 982, Otto-William (son of Adalbert of Lombardy) married Ermentrude of ...

  5. Regions of France - Wikipedia

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    Permanent names were proposed by the new regional councils by 1 July 2016 and new names confirmed by the Conseil d'État by 30 September 2016. [6] [7] The legislation defining the new regions also allowed the Centre region to officially change its name to "Centre-Val de Loire" with effect from January 2015. [8]

  6. Franche-Comté - Wikipedia

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    1771 map of Burgundy, Franche-Comté and Lyonnais by Rigobert Bonne. The Franche-Comté was one of the last parts of France to have serfdom. In 1784, half of the population consisted of serfs, accounting for 400,000 out of the 1 million French serfs. Landowners took one-twelfth of the sale's price if a serf (mainmortable) wanted to sell up.

  7. Category:Counts of Burgundy - Wikipedia

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    Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Coat of arms of the Free County of Burgundy until the 13th century. Coat of arms of the Free ...

  8. Duchy of Burgundy - Wikipedia

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    Henry the Venerable died in 1002 leaving two potential heirs: his nephew, Robert the Pious, King of France, and his stepson, Otto-William, count of Mâcon (kingdom of France) and count of Burgundy (kingdom of Burgundy), whom Henry had adopted. Robert claimed the duchy by his dual rights as feudal overlord and nearest blood-relative of the deceased.

  9. Kingdom of Burgundy - Wikipedia

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    The heartland of historical Burgundy correlates with the border area between 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, and during the 9th century was divided into Upper and Lower Burgundy and Provence. Two of these ...