Hugh V, Duke of Burgundy

Hugh V
Hugh V
	Seal of Hugh V of Burgundy:SIGILLUM HUGONIS DUCIS BURGUNDIE
Duke of Burgundy
Reign	1306 - 1315
Predecessor	Robert II
Successor	Odo IV
Born	1294
Died	9 May 1315 (Aged 30-31)
House	Burgundy
Father	Robert II, Duke of Burgundy
Mother	Agnes of France

Hugh V (1294 – 9 May 1315) was Duke of Burgundy between 1306 and 1315.

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]

Ancestry

Ancestors of Hugh V, Duke of Burgundy

8. Odo III, Duke of Burgundy

4. Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy

9. Alice of Vergy

2. Robert II, Duke of Burgundy

10. Robert III, Count of Dreux

5. Yolande of Dreux

11. Alianor de St. Valéry

1. Hugh V, Duke of Burgundy

12. Louis VIII of France

6. Louis IX of France

13. Blanche of Castile

3. Agnes of France

14. Ramon Berenguer V, Count of Provence

7. Margaret of Provence

15. Beatrice of Savoy

References

^ ^a ^b ^c 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.
^ ^a ^b The Morea:1311-1364, Peter Topping, A History of the Crusades: The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries, Vol. III, 115, 769.

Ancestry

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