The recension which we possess appears to have been made on the borders of Limousin and Poitou ; but it is clearly no more than a recast of an older poem no longer extant, probably either of French or at least Burgundian origin.

The alternate theory is that the connection with the treasure was indeed primary, and that nibel -, nifl -, meaning ' mist, cloud ', referred originally to a dwarfish origin for the hoard, though this was later forgotten and the application of the name to the Burgundian royal family arose from misunderstanding.

His family was of Burgundian origin and had settled in north Italy in the 10th century.

The separation of Brabant from the Empire was completed by the Burgundian dukes of Brabant in the fifteenth century.

After Thebes became a possession of the Latin dukes, which were of the Burgundian family called De la Roche, it replaced Athens as the capital and seat of government, although Athens remained the most influential ecclesiastical centre in the duchy and site of a prime fortress.

Under the Burgundian dukes, a bell tower was added to the Parthenon.

The duchy roughly conforms to the borders and territories of the modern region of Bourgogne, but its dukes came to own considerable possessions in the Low Countries known as the Burgundian Netherlands, which were caught up in the Eighty Years ' War of the 16th and 17th centuries, and some of which later became free territories at the end of the Dutch Revolt during the Thirty Years ' War.

Objets de vertu reflect the rarified aesthetic and conspicuous consumption characteristic of court art, whether of the late-medieval Burgundian dukes, the Mughal emperors, or Ming and later imperial China.

Perhaps his greatest legacy is seen in the subsequent Burgundian court of the Valois dukes, for Odo was a patron of the arts and the church and sponsored many young artists.

When Charles the Bold was killed at the 1477 Battle of Nancy, the male line of the Burgundian dukes became extinct.

Margaret's grandson and heir Charles II of Navarre claimed the duchy on the basis of primogeniture, but Joan the Lame's son John II of France on the basis of proximity, being one generation closer to the Burgundian dukes.

The worldly dukes also encouraged the composition of secular music to a degree seen only rarely before in European music history, a characteristic which itself defines the Burgundian epoch as a Renaissance phenomenon.

A fair share ( but not most ) of these territories were inherited by the Burgundian dukes, a younger branch of the French royal House of Valois in 1384, upon the death of Count Louis II of Flanders.

In the following decades, the Burgundian dukes expanded their territories in the Low Countries by the acquisition of several Imperial States: Duke Philip the Good purchased the County of Namur in 1421, inherited the Duchies of Brabant and Limburg in 1430, and seized the Counties of Hainaut, Holland and Zeeland in 1432, and the Duchy of Luxembourg in 1441.

The Burgundian dukes who ruled the Netherlandish territories were:

* The Burgundian Inheritance are the items that are still left of the once-immense treasure of the dukes of Burgundy.

It is speculated by various scholars that Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe was of Lyonnais or Burgundian petty nobility ; and also the selfsame ' Jean de Sainte-Colombe ' noted as the father of ' Monsieur de Saint Colombe le fils.

Already before his coronation as the King of the Romans in 1486, Maximilian decided to secure this distant and extensive Burgundian inheritance to his family, the House of Habsburg, at all costs.

His father, Pierre de Beze, royal governor of Vezelay, descended from a Burgundian family of distinction ; his mother, Marie Bourdelot, was known for her generosity.

He came from a family of prosperous Burgundian lawyers-on both his paternal and maternal side, his ancestors had held legal posts for at least a century.

York was regarded with suspicion on three fronts: he threatened the succession of the young Prince of Wales ; he was apparently negotiating for the marriage of his eldest son Edward into the Burgundian ruling family ; and as a supporter of the Nevilles, he was contributing to the major cause of disturbance in the kingdom – the Percy / Neville feud.

Madame de Genlis was born of a noble but impoverished Burgundian family, at the château of Champcéry, in Issy-l ' Évêque, Saône-et-Loire.

The son of a Paris watchmaker and a member of a Burgundian Huguenot family, and descendant of a minor noble family on his mother's side, he and his sons, Victor Marie du Pont and Eleuthère Irénée du Pont, emigrated to the United States in 1800 and used the resources of their Huguenot heritage to found one of the most prominent of American families, and one of its most successful corporations, E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, initially established by Eleuthère Irénée as a gunpowder manufacturer.

Some seemingly took Nibelung to apply primarily to Siegfried's treasure, in which case it must mean something else than the Burgundian royal family, and so another explanation was contrived.

He was the last male member of the Burgundian group of the Elder Welfs family.

The family achieved even greater prominence in the period of Burgundian and Habsburg rule over the Netherlands.

In 1415, following the death of his family by a Burgundian raiding party, de Conte is sent to Domrémy to live with the parish priest.

He was born at Geneva, a member of a Burgundian family which had fled from France on account of religious difficulties.

Sluter probably worked in Brussels before moving to the Burgundian capital of Dijon, where from 1385 to 1389 he was the assistant of Jean de Marville, Court Sculptor to Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy.

All others, including Burgundian and Vandalic, are known, if at all, only from proper names that survived in historical accounts, and from loan-words in other languages like Spanish and French.

Eventually, however, under Charles V and then Philip II, the Burgundian Netherlands became part of the Habsburg empire ruled from Spain.

In 451, Attila's forces entered Gaul, with his army recruiting from the Franks, Goths and Burgundian tribes en route.

On March 23, 1430, Joan of Arc dictated a letter that threatened to lead a crusading army against the Hussites unless they returned to the Catholic faith, but her capture by English and Burgundian troops two months later would keep her from carrying out this threat.

On his return to France, he immediately convened an assembly of French and Burgundian bishops at Vienne, where the imperial claim to a traditional lay investiture of the clergy was denounced as heretical and a sentence of excommunication was now pronounced against Henry V on the grounds that he had extorted the Privilegium from Paschal II by means of violence.

Albert Henry wrote that although in 1988 the word Walloon evoked a constitutional reality, it originally referred to Roman populations of the Burgundian Netherlands and was also used to designate a territory by the terms provinces wallonnes or Walloon country ( Pays wallon ), from the 16th century to the Belgian revolution, and later Wallonia.

* August 18 – Mary of Burgundy marries Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor in Ghent, bringing her Flemish and Burgundian lands into the Holy Roman Empire and detaching them from France.

The Chardonay from Le Clos Jordanne placed first out of the 14 white wines, some of which were notable international wines, including: Chateau Montelena, Mer Soleil, Kumeu River, an aged reserve wine from Rosemount Estates, and a number of Burgundian entrants from producers such as Drouhin, Lamy, Boisset, Jadot and others.

The Burgundian period, from Philip II ( the Bold ) to Charles the Bold, was one of political prestige and economic and artistic splendour.

The “ Great Dukes of the West ,” as the Burgundian princes were called, were effectively considered national sovereigns, their domains extending from the Zuiderzee to the Somme.

Records from 1437 on suggest that he was held in high esteem by the upper ranks of Burgundian nobility while also accepting many foreign commissions.

One theory was later recounted in Edward Hall's chronicle, written a few decades after the event, but partly from first-hand sources, and the contemporary Burgundian Jean de Waurin's chronicle.

The disappointed Philip withdrew his Burgundian auxiliaries from the English siege in a huff.

Dagobert created a new duchy ( the later Duchy of Alsace ) in southwest Austrasia to guard the region from Burgundian or Alemannic encroachments and ambitions.

She believed that Burgundian trade, from which the Duchy drew its vast wealth, depended upon friendly relations with England.

Meanwhile, Louis XI had proved masterful at destabilising the Duchy: Edward IV had been detached from his alliance, Charles ' reputation and banking credit had been undermined by Louis, and Burgundian trade was choked by French embargoes.

She bore no male heir to succeed to the Duchy, but she preserved it from ruin ; to her actions can be ascribed the survival of the Burgundian state, and the prevention of French dominance in Europe.

The Seventeen Provinces originated from the Burgundian Netherlands.

Majorian then attacked the Burgundian Kingdom, defeating them at the Siege of Lugdunum, expelling them from the Rhone valley and reducing them to federate status.