Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy

Hugh IV
Duke of Burgundy
Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy
Spouse(s)	Yolande de Dreux Beatrice of Navarre, Duchess of Burgundy
Noble family	House of Burgundy
Father	Odo III, Duke of Burgundy
Mother	Alice de Vergy
Born	(1213-03-09)9 March 1213 Villaines-en-Duesmois
Died	27 October 1272(1272-10-27) (aged 59)

Hugh IV of Burgundy (9 March 1213 – 27 or 30 October 1272) was Duke of Burgundy between 1218 and 1272. Hugh was the son of Odo III, Duke of Burgundy^[1] and Alice de Vergy.

Issue 1
Expansion 2
Crusades 3
Death 4
See also 5
References 6

Issue

Hugh married twice, first to Yolande de Dreux when he was 16 and she 17 years of age.^[2] He then married Beatrice of Navarre, when he was 45.^[3] Between his two marriages he had 10 children, the following are their issues:

From Yolande de Dreux, daughter of Count Robert III "Gasteblé" of Dreux^[2] and of Braine:
- Margaret, Lady of Molinot (1229–1277), married;
  - 1.William III, count of Mont St Jean^[4]
  - 2.Guy VI, Viscount of Limoges^[4]
- Odo (1230–1266), who married Matilda II, Countess of Nevers
- John (1231–1268), married Agnes of Dampierre and had Beatrice of Burgundy, heiress of Bourbon (through Agnes)
- Adelaide of Burgundy, Duchess of Brabant, married Henry III, Duke of Brabant
- Robert II, Duke of Burgundy (1248–1306)

From Beatrice of Champagne, daughter of Theobald I of Navarre:
- Hugh, viscount of Avallon
- Margaret, Dame de Vitteaux, wife of John I of Chalon-Arlay^[5]
- Joan, a nun
- Beatrice, Lady of Grignon (ca.1260–1329), married Hugh XIII of Lusignan
- Isabella of Burgundy, Queen of Germany married Rudolf I of Germany^[5]

Expansion

Hugh IV, through a transaction with John l'Antique de Chalon, gave up the barony of Salon for the counties of Chalon and Auxonne in 1237, which expanded the Duchy^[6] and the regional economy benefited from the growing wine trade.

Crusades

In 1239, Hugh joined the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II and King Theobald I of Navarre.^[7] The Burgundian troops allied with Richard of Cornwall and rebuilt Ascalon and negotiated a peace with Egypt in 1241.^[8] Hugh was made titular king of Thessalonica in 1266,^[9] although it had been recaptured by the Byzantines some years before.

Death

Hugh IV died on 27 Oct 1272 (Aged 60) at Villaines-en-Duismois, France. His burial place is unknown.

References

^ Kenneth Meyer Setton, The Papacy and the Levant, 1204-1571: The thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, (The American Philosophical Society, 1976), 492.
^ ^a ^b Michael Lower, The Barons' Crusade: A Call to Arms and Its Consequences, (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005), 97.
^ Theodore Evergates, Aristocratic Women in Medieval France, (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011), 80.
^ ^a ^b Du Chesne, A. (1628) Histoire géneálogique des ducs de Bourgogne de la maison de France (Paris), Preuves, p. 79-80.
^ ^a ^b Philippe Le Bel et la Noblesse Franc-Comtoise, Frantz Funck-Brentano, Bibliothèque de l’École des chartes, Vol. 49 (1888), 9.
^ The kingdom of Burgundy, the lands of the house of Savoy and adjacent territories, Eugene Cox, The New Cambridge Medieval History: Volume 5, C.1198-c.1300, ed. Rosamond McKitterick, David Abulafia, (Cambridge University Press, 1999), 362.
^ Jim Bradbury, The Capetians: The History of a Dynasty, (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2007), 210.
^ Jean Richard, The Crusades, C.1071-c.1291, (Cambridge University Press, 1999) 325-327.
^ The Morea:1311-1364, Peter Topping, A History of the Crusades: The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries, Vol. III, ed. Harry W. Hazard, (University of Wisconsin Press, 1975), 109.

Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy House of Burgundy Born: 9 March 1213 Died: 27 October 1272
Preceded by Odo III	Duke of Burgundy 1218–1272	Succeeded by Robert II

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