Philip the Bold
Duke of Burgundy (1342-1404)
- Fame55.3
- Momentum0.0
- Journalists rank#237
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- Fame55.3
- Momentum0.0
- Journalists rank#237
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Lived 1342–1404, aged 62France
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Updated 2026-06-21
The youngest son of a French king who turned a ducal inheritance into an empire. Philip the Bold built the Burgundian state that would challenge France itself — not through conquest alone, but through a wedding that delivered Flanders, the richest territory in Europe.
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Born 17 January 1342, the fourth son of King John II of France, Philip earned his epithet at fourteen and inherited Burgundy — then made it mean something else entirely. He founded the Burgundian branch of the House of Valois and grasped early what gunpowder could do, deploying artillery with enough success to shift how European armies thought about sieges. The real move came in 1384: a political marriage handed him Flanders, Artois, and Burgundy by right of his wife, and with Flanders came wealth that made him the premier peer of France. His successors ruled the Burgundian Netherlands until 1…
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