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Eudes IV (
1295 –
3 April 1350) was
Duke of Burgundy from
1315 until his death and
Count of Burgundy and
Artois between
1330 and
1347. He was the second son of
Duke Robert II and
Agnes of France.
Eudes was closely related to the French royal family, the
Capetians. His father was heir to a cadet branch (the
House of Burgundy) of the
Capetian dynasty. His maternal grandparents were
Saint Louis IX and
Margaret of Provence. His elder sister,
Margaret was married to
Louis X of France and his younger sister,
Joanna, was married to
Philip of Valois. He was thus an uncle of Queen
Joan II of Navarre.
He succeeded his elder brother,
Hugh V, in 1315. Eudes defended the rights of his niece Joan of Navarre against
Philip the Tall, another uncle, after Louis X's death in
1316. In
1318, Eudes married Philip's eldest daughter,
Jeanne III, Countess of Burgundy (
1308 –
1347). He thus allied himself with Philip, who had become king of France in the meantime.
On the death of his brother,
Louis in 1316, Eudes was pressed by the Angevins to sell his rights as
King of Thessalonica and
Prince of Achaea to
Philip I of Taranto. In
1320, he finally sold them to
Louis, Count of Clermont.
Eudes was a loyal vassal of his brother-in-law, Philip of Valois, after he succeeded to the French throne as Philip VI. He fought in many theatres of French warfare: the
Low Countries,
Brittany,
Aquitaine. He fought the Flemings and was wounded at the
Battle of Cassel in
1328. His wife inherited the domains of her mother in 1330: the county of
Artois and the county of Burgundy, the so-called
Free County. Eudes helped defend
Saint Omer in
the battle there against
Robert III of Artois in
1340. He took part in the
War of the Breton Succession as a partisan of
Charles of Blois. In
1346, he was in
Guyenne combatting the
English.
Perhaps his greatest legacy is seen in the subsequent Burgundian court of the Valois dukes, for Eudes was a patron of the arts and the church and sponsored many young artists. He also endeavoured for good political connexions and by marrying a French royal princess assured the good relations with the neighbouring kingdom. The premature death of his son Philip made his four year old grandson the heir apparent. He succeeded Eudes IV as
Philip I after Eudes died at
Sens.
Children
By his wife Joanna, Eudes had six sons, most of whom died young:
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