Catherine of Burgundy

Statuette of Catherine of Burgundy from the tomb of Isabella of Bourbon, ca. 1476 (National Museum in Warsaw).

Catharine of Burgundy (Montbard, 1378 - Dijon, January 26, 1425) was the second daughter of Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy and Margaret III, Countess of Flanders. She was Duchess of Further Austria.

She was married on August 15, 1393 with Leopold IV, Duke of Austria, gaining the count of Ferrette for her dowry. Following Leopold's death in 1411, his brother Frederick occupied the county of Ferrette despite Catherine and her nephew Duke Philip of Burgundy's negotiations. She lived mainly in her residence in the Alsace, close to her native Burgundy. The marriage remained childless and when her husband died in 1411.

Around 1415, she remarried with Maximilian Smassmann von Rappoltstein. This marriage also remained childless and they divorced in 1421.
She was buried in the Chartreuse de Champmol.

Ancestry

Family of Catherine of Burgundy

16. Charles, Count of Valois               8. Philip VI of France                       17. Margaret, Countess of Anjou               4. John II of France                             18. Robert II, Duke of Burgundy               9. Joan the Lame                       19. Agnes of France               2. Philip the Bold                                   20. Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor               10. John of Bohemia                       21. Margaret of Brabant               5. Bonne of Bohemia                             22. Wenceslaus II of Bohemia               11. Elizabeth of Bohemia                       23. Judith of Habsburg               1. Catherine of Burgundy                                         24. Louis I, Count of Nevers               12. Louis I, Count of Flanders                       25. Joan, Countess of Rethel               6. Louis II, Count of Flanders                             26. Philip V of France               13. Margaret I, Countess of Burgundy                       27. Joan II, Countess of Burgundy               3. Margaret III, Countess of Flanders                                   28. Margaret of England               14. John III, Duke of Brabant                       29. John II, Duke of Brabant               7. Margaret of Brabant                             30. Louis, Count of Évreux               15. Marie of Évreux                       31. Margaret of Artois

External links

• Genealogical database by herbert Stoyan at Uni-Erlangen