Hugh V, Duke of Burgundy

Seal of Hugh V of Burgundy

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

Hugh was the eldest son of Robert II, Duke 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

16. Hugh III, Duke of Burgundy               8. Odo III, Duke of Burgundy                       17. Alice of Lorraine               4. Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy                             18. Hugues, Seigneur de Vergy               9. Alix of Vergy                       19. Gillette de Trainel               2. Robert II, Duke of Burgundy                                   20. Robert II, Count of Dreux               10. Robert III, Count of Dreux                       21. Yolanda de Coucy               5. Yolande of Dreux                             22. Thomas, Seigneur de Saint-Valéry               11. Aénor, Dame de Saint-Valéry                       23. Alix de Ponthieu, Dame de Saint-Aubin               1. Hugh V, Duke of Burgundy                                         24. Philip II of France               12. Louis VIII of France                       25. Isabelle of Hainaut               6. Louis IX of France                             26. Alfonso VIII of Castile               13. Blanche of Castile                       27. Eleanor of England               3. Agnes of France                                   28. Alfonso II, Count of Provence               14. Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Provence                       29. Garsenda of Forcalquier               7. Margaret of Provence                             30. Thomas I, Count of Savoy               15. Beatrice of Savoy                       31. Margaret of Geneva

References

1. 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.
2. The Morea:1311-1364, Peter Topping, A History of the Crusades: The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries, Vol. III, 115, 769.

See also

• Dukes of Burgundy family tree