State · 880 – 1477

Duchy of Burgundy

A state of 880 – 1477 — 597 years in Europe. The atlas records 5 things within it — wars and battles 1 · treaties 1 · people 3. Its line of rulers holds 5 people.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Stood: 597 years; 880 – 1477
Rulers: 5; the Duke of Burgundy
Most ground: 119,300 km²; in 1475
Within it: 5; recorded rows
Symbols: 4; on record, with years

Map: Duchy of Burgundy in 1475, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Duchy of Burgundy in 1475, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 119,300 km². Its neighbours wear their tints, as on the atlas's own map. Borders from Cliopatria (CC BY 4.0), coast and rivers from Natural Earth, cities from Reba, Reitsma & Seto 2016 (CC BY 4.0), each city under the name it bore that year.

Duchy of Burgundy in 1003, first mapped — The rise and the fall in one frame: the same ground at the years the borders dataset first maps it, maps it largest, and last maps it.

Duchy of Burgundy in 1475, at its largest — The rise and the fall in one frame: the same ground at the years the borders dataset first maps it, maps it largest, and last maps it.

Where it sits in time

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold.

Rulers

Read from the state’s own English article and its rulers’ articles, where Wikidata names no ruler.

killed, executed or dead in battleending not on record

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Robert I of Burgundy	1032 – 1076	44 years	ending not on record
Philip the Bold	1363 – 1404	41 years	ending not on record
John the Fearless	1404 – 1419	15 years	ending not on record	child
Philip the Good	1419 – 1467	48 years	ending not on record	child
Charles the Bold	1467 – 1477	10 years	killed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article	child

5 rulers, 5 with terms dated as terms, covering 1032 – 1477. Median reign 41 years. 0 of 4 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.

Ground held, by year

km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.

31,500 km² in 1005, 119,300 km² in 1477; at its largest 119,300 km² in 1477. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

Flags and arms, in order

Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.

flag, undatedFlag of the Duchy of Burgundy · Public domain
coat of arms, undatedBlason Ducs Bourgogne (ancien) · CC BY-SA 3.0
flag, undatedAncient Flag of Burgundy · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Oren neu dag ( talk )
coat of arms, undatedBlason Philippe II de Bourgogne · CC BY-SA 4.0

What happened within it, by century

Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.

1400 – 14995 rows · 1 wars and battles

Erasmus · philosopher · 1466 – 1536
Hieronymus Bosch · artist · 1450 – 1516
Willem van Enckevoirt · ruler · 1464 – 1534
Treaty of Picquigny · treaty · 1475
Battle of Brustem · battle · 1467

Among all states

Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.

How long it stood597 years
stood longer than 90% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held119,300 km²
held more ground at its peak than 49% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
Wars recorded per centurynone
had more wars on record per century than 44% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
How long a reign lasted, at the median41 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 92% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record5
has more rulers on record than 64% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 2 causes the record names and 0 results, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.

in the article

Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 820 – 1537, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1475, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q4712 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.