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See also:MARY (1457-1482) , duchess of See also:Burgundy, only See also:child of See also:Charles the Bold, See also:duke of Burgundy, and his wife See also:Isabella of See also:Bourbon, was See also:born on the 13th of See also:February 1457. As heiress of the See also:rich Burgundian domains her See also:hand was eagerly sought by a number of princes. When her See also:father See also:fell upon the See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field of See also:Nancy, on the 5th of"See also:January 1477, Mary was not yet twenty years of See also:age. See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis` XI. of See also:France seized the opportunity afforded by his See also:rival's defeat and See also:death to take See also:possession of the duchy of Burgundy as a See also:fief lapsed to the See also:French See also:crown, and also of Franche See also:Comte, See also:Picardy and See also:Artois. He was anxious that Mary should marry the Dauphin Charles and thus secure the See also:inheritance of the See also:Netherlands for his descendants. Mary, however, distrusted Louis; declined the French See also:alliance, and turned to her Netherland subjects for help. She obtained the help only at the See also:price of See also:great concessions. On the 11th of February 1477 she was compelled to sign a See also:charter of rights, known as " the Great See also:Privilege," by which the provinces and towns of the Netherlands recovered all the See also:local and communal rights which had been abolished by the arbitrary decrees of the See also:dukes of Burgundy in their efforts to create in the See also:Low Countries a centralized See also:state. Mary had to undertake not to declare See also:war, make See also:peace, or raise taxes without the consent of the States, and not to employ any but natives in See also:official posts. Such was the hatred of the See also:people to the old regime that two influential councillors of Charles the Bold, the See also:Chancellor Hugonet and the Sire d'Humbercourt, having been discovered in See also:correspondence with the French See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king, were executed at See also:Ghent despite the tears and entreaties of the youthful duchess. Mary now made her choice among the many suitors for her hand, and selected the See also:archduke See also:Maximilian of See also:Austria, afterwards the See also:emperor Maximilian I., and the See also:marriage took See also:place at Ghent on the 18th of See also:August 1477. Affairs now went more smoothly in the Netherlands, the French aggression was checked, and See also:internal peace was in a large measure restored, when the duchess met her death by a fall from her See also:horse on the 27th of See also:March 1482. Three See also:children had been the issue of her marriage,
and her See also:elder son, See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip, succeeded to her dominions under the guardianship of his father.
See E. Munch, Maria von Burgund, nebst d. Leben v. Margaretha v. See also:York (2 vols., See also:Leipzig, 1832), and the See also:Cambridge Mod. Hist. (vol. i., c. xii., bibliography, 1903).
End of Article: MARY (1457-1482)
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