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Post  tranthuongbn Tue Nov 08, 2011 2:50 pm

The Duchy of Burgundy (1032–1477), was heir to an ancient and prestigious reputation and a large division of the lands of the Second Kingdom of Burgundy and in its own right was one of the geographically larger ducal territories in the emergence of Early Modern Europe from Medieval Europe.
Even in that diminished size, the duchy played a pivotal role in Europe's politics (of marriages and wars over territories between princes under Right of Conquest and inheritance practices) long after it lost its role as an independent political identity in the Battle of Nancy in 1477. It was demoted to a ducal rank from the inheritance and settlements in 1363 by a cadet branch inheritance via salic law divided between two heirs as a territorial remnant or rump of the S

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