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Hugh V, Duke of Burgundy

Hugh V, Duke of Burgundy

Duke of Burgundy

Hugh V (1284 – 9 May 1315) was Duke of Burgundy between 1306 and 1315.

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Hugh was the eldest son of Duke Robert II of Burgundy and Agnes of France.[1]

Hugh was betrothed to Catherine of Valois in 1302, but the betrothal was broken off 30 September 1312,[1] and he had no known descendants. He was involved in the Crusader movement and was also titular King of Thessalonica,[2] a title he sold in 1313 to his brother Louis in exchange for the latter's rights to Burgundy.[1] He was succeeded by his younger brother Odo IV, Duke of Burgundy.[2]

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References

  1. [1]
    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.
  2. [2]
    The Morea:1311-1364, Peter Topping, A History of the Crusades: The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries, Vol. III, 115, 769.

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