Mary of Burgundy

Family: Burgundy · Role: heiress · First appears: Edward IV 35

Life events

1479 · Mary of Burgundy married Maximilian I for protection.(Edward IV 35)
- With: Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor
- “till at length for maintenance she condescended to marrie with Maximilian sonne to the emperour Frederike, that he might kéepe the woolfe from the fold.”

courtship with George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence “the duke, being destitute of a wife, by the meanes of his sister the ladie Margaret, duchesse of Burgognie, procured to haue the ladie Marie, daughter and heire to hir husband duke Charles”
parent: Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy “the ladie Marie, daughter and heire to hir husband duke Charles”
admirer: George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence “the duke, being destitute of a wife, by the meanes of his sister the ladie Margaret, duchesse of Burgognie, procured to haue the ladie Marie, daughter and heire to hir husband duke Charles”
married with Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor “the yoong duchesse of Burgognie was spoiled of hir townes, castels & territories, till at length for maintenance she condescended to marrie with Maximilian sonne to the emperour Frederike”
admirer: Anthony Woodville, Earl Rivers “About the same time had the queene of England sent to the ladie Margaret duchesse of Burgognie, for the preferrement of hir brother Anthonie erle Riuers to the yoong damsell”

Extracted from the original text of Holinshed's Chronicles — the reigns Shakespeare dramatized. Made with Rho MD.