Michael Depreter et al. (eds.), Marie de Bourgogne: Figure, principat et postérité d’une duchesse tardo-médiévale / Mary of Burgundy: ‘Persona’, Reign, and Legacy of a Late Medieval Duchess

Abstract

Mary of Burgundy inherited the extensive domains of her father, Duke Charles the Bold, upon his death in 1477; then in 1482, at only twenty-five years of age, she met her own death in a hunting accident. During these five short years, she faced off against the French King Louis xi, married Archduke Maximilian of Austria, and bore three children. Historians have been left with