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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bart, post: 183413, member: 5580&quot;]Burgundy came associated with Austria when Mary of Burgundy, only child of Charles the Bold, inherited the country (together with their possessions in the Low Countries) and married with Maximilian of Habsburg, Holy Roman Emperor. They were the grand-parents of the famous Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. Since that marriage, the Austrian Habsburgs wore the title of Duke of Burgundy.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is history very familiar to me, as we had to learn this in High School. The Low Countries (which were possessions of the dukes of Burgundy) became Habsburg lands since then (the Netherlands becoming independent from Spain in the 17th century). As the eldest son of Maximilian and Mary, Philip the Fair, was married to the only daughter of Fredinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castilia, Isabella the Insane, also Spain came to the Habsburgs. Burgundy was captured by Louis XIV and became French in the 17th century, but the title stayed in the Habsburg family. On the coinage of Besançon, a city in the Franche-Comté and neighbour to Burgundy, the image of Charles V was used far after he deceased.</p><p><br /></p><p>bart[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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