Mary of Burgundy

Mary , Duchess of Burgundy, reigned over the Low Countries from 1477 until her death. As the only child of Charles the Bold and his wife Isabella of Bourbon, she was the heiress to the vast, and vastly wealthy, Burgundian domains in France and the Low Countries upon her fathers death in the Battle of Nancy onJanuary 1477, and was accordingly often referred to as Mary the Rich .

Mary of Burgundy was born in Brussels, at the ducal castle of Coudenberg, to Charles the Bold, Count of Charolais, and his wife, Isabella of Bourbon. Her birth, according to the court chronicler, Georges Chastellain, was attended by a clap of thunder ringing from the otherwise clear twilight sky. Her godfather was Louis, Dauphin of France, in exile in Burgundy at that time he named her for his mother, Marie of Anjou. Reactions to the child were mixed the babys grandfather, Duke Philip the Good, was unimpressed, and chose not to attend the as it was only for a girl the grandmother, Isabella of Portugal, was simply delighted at the birth of a granddaughter.

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