Hugh V, Duke of Burgundy

Duke of Burgundy

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	1284
Died	9 May 1315 (Aged 30-31)
House	Burgundy
Father	Robert II, Duke of Burgundy
Mother	Agnes of France

Hugh V (1284 – 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

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. Alice 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

11. Alianor de St. Valéry

1. Hugh V, Duke of Burgundy

24. Philip II of France

12. Louis VIII of France

25. Isabella of Hainault

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 V, Count of Provence

29. Garsenda, Countess of Forcalquier

7. Margaret of Provence

30. Thomas, Count of Savoy

15. Beatrice of Savoy

31. Margaret of Geneva

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.