Episode 6.3 - Burgundy Pt 3 - John the Fearless

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With Philip the Bold’s death, his strategy of adding more territories to his heir is fulfilled, and John the Fearless inherits what is becoming a Burgundian state. John is even more ambitious than his father, seeking to control France, add to his own territory, and use any means at his disposal to accomplish his goals

Sources

  • Joseph Calmette, The Golden Age of Burgundy

  • Richard Vaughan, Philip the Bold

  • Richard Vaughan, John the Fearless

  • Henri Pirenne, “The formation and constitution of the Burgundian State (fifteenth and sixteenth centuries)”, American Historical Review

  • The New Cambridge Medieval History

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