Catherine of Burgundy

Catharine of Burgundy (Montbard, 1378 – Dijon, 26 January 1425) was Duchess of Further Austria by marriage to Leopold IV, Duke of Austria.

Posthumous portrait of Catherine by Anton Boys

She was the second daughter of Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy and Margaret III, Countess of Flanders.

She was married on 15 August 1393 with Leopold IV, Duke of Austria,^[1] gaining the county of Ferrette for her dowry.^[1] Following Leopold's death in 1411, his brother Frederick occupied the county of Ferrette despite Catherine and her nephew Duke Philip of Burgundy's negotiations.^[1] She lived mainly in her residence in the Alsace, close to her native Burgundy. The marriage remained childless.

Around 1415, she remarried with Maximilian Smassmann von Rappoltstein. This marriage also remained childless and they divorced in 1421.
She was buried in the Chartreuse de Champmol.

Ancestry

Ancestors of Catherine of Burgundy[2]

16. Charles, Count of Valois 8. Philip VI of France 17. Margaret, Countess of Anjou 4. John II of France 18. Robert II, Duke of Burgundy 9. Joan the Lame 19. Agnes of France 2. Philip the Bold 20. Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor 10. John of Bohemia 21. Margaret of Brabant (≠ 7) 5. Bonne of Bohemia 22. Wenceslaus II of Bohemia 11. Elizabeth of Bohemia 23. Judith of Habsburg[3] 1. Catherine of Burgundy 24. Louis I, Count of Nevers 12. Louis I, Count of Flanders 25. Joan, Countess of Rethel 6. Louis II, Count of Flanders 26. Philip V of France 13. Margaret I, Countess of Burgundy 27. Joan II, Countess of Burgundy 3. Margaret III, Countess of Flanders 28. John II, Duke of Brabant 14. John III, Duke of Brabant 29. Margaret of England 7. Margaret of Brabant (≠ 21) 30. Louis, Count of Évreux 15. Marie of Évreux 31. Margaret of Artois