Burgundy

This House of Burgundy was a Capetian cadet branch, founded when Robert I, younger son of Robert II the Pious, received the Duchy of Burgundy from his brother Henry I in 1032 and ruled from Dijon. Its dukes joined the crusades and planted branches across the west: Robert I's younger grandson Henry became count of Portugal in 1093, and his son Afonso Henriques founded the Portuguese kingdom in 1139, a Burgundian line ruling Lisbon until 1383.

In 1337 Odo IV ruled; through his wife Joan III he held the Free County of Burgundy and Artois from 1330 and commanded Philip VI's armies in the opening wars with England, fighting at Cassel in 1328.

His grandson Philip of Rouvres gathered the family's many lands but died childless in 1361, probably of plague. The duchy reverted to the French crown, and in 1363 King John II gave it to his son Philip the Bold, opening the Valois House of Burgundy.