A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Mary, daughter of Charles, Duke of Burgundy

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4120817A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography — Mary, daughter of Charles, Duke of Burgundy

MARY.

Daughter of Charles, Duke of Burgundy, married Maximilian, son of Frederick, Emperor of Austria, and thus transferred the dominions of Burgundy to the house of Austria, She died at Bruges, 1482, in consequence of a fall from her horse, while she was hunting.