Philip the Bold takes the Duchy of Burgundy

1363

John II of France granted his fourth son Philip the vacated duchy of Burgundy as an appanage, rewarding the prince who had fought beside him at Poitiers as a fourteen-year-old. Philip's descendants would accumulate Flanders, Artois, Holland, and Luxembourg, turning Burgundy into a semi-independent Middle Kingdom between France and the empire that would challenge both crowns.