The
Duchy of Burgundy itself was granted to the dynasty's founder
Philip the Bold in 1363 by his father the French king,
John II. The dynasty's domains were then substantially added to, mainly by Philip himself and his grandson,
Philip the Good. Philip the Bold married
Margaret of Flanders, and when her father died in 1384, he acquired through her inheritance not only the adjacent
County of Burgundy and other lands in eastern France, but also
Flanders in the Low Countries, with its concentration of wealthy urban areas. The next period of major expansion was in the 1420s and 1430s when Philip the Good added further extensive domains by purchase, diplomacy and inheritance. These were in eastern and north eastern France, but more significantly, in the Low Countries as well. The
Brabantine inheritance of 1430 and the cession of
Jacqueline of Hainaut's lands in 1433, when added to Flanders, meant that Philip's territories would include a powerful contiguous domain covering most of the Low Countries and referred to as the
Burgundian Netherlands. Finally, the last Valois duke,
Charles the Bold, through almost continuous warfare after his accession in 1467, briefly extended the domains further but was killed in battle in 1477 without a male heir, the last of the dynasty being his daughter
Mary of Burgundy. The Duchy of Burgundy itself was then absorbed back into France and most of the remaining territories, as a result of Mary's marriage to
Maximilian of Habsburg, passed to the
House of Habsburg, forming part of a
much larger empire. ==Territories of the Valois dukes of Burgundy==