BURGUNDY, a region of western Eu rope, so named from the Burgundians, a Teutonic or Germanic people originally from the country between the Oder and the Vistula. They migrated first to the region of the upper Rhine, and, in the beginning of the 5th century, passed into Gaul and obtained possession of the S. E. part of the country, where they founded a kingdom having its seat of government sometimes at Lyons and sometimes at Geneva. They were at last wholly subdued by the Franks. In 879 Boson, Count of Autun, succeeded in es tablishing the royal dignity again in part of this kingdom. He styled him self King of Provence, and had his resi dence at Arles. His son, Louis, added the country beyond the Jura, and thus established Cisjuran Burgundy. A second kingdom arose when Rudolph of Strettlingen formed Upper or Trans juran Burgundy out of part of Switzer land and Savoy. Both these Burgundian kingdoms were united, and finally, on the extinction of Rudolph's line, were in corporated with Germany. But a third State, the historical DUCHY OF' BUR GUNDY, consisting principally of the French province of Bourgogne or Bur gundy, had been formed as a great feudal and almost independent province of France in the 9th century. This first ducal line died out with a Duke Philip, and the duchy, reverting to the crown, was, in 1363, granted by King John of France to his son, Philip the Bold, who thus became the founder of a new line of Dukes of Burgundy. A marriage
with Margaret, daughter of Louis III., Count of Flanders, brought him Flan ders, Mechlin, Antwerp and Franche Comte. He was succeeded by his son, Duke John the Fearless, whose son and successor, Philip the Good, so greatly ex tended his dominions that, on his death, in 1467, his son Charles, surnamed the Bold, though possessing only the title of Duke, was in reality one of the richest and most powerful sovereigns of Eu rope. Charles left a daughter, Mary of Burgundy, the sole heiress of his States, Who oy her marriage to Maximilian of Austria transferred a large part of her dominions to that Prince, while Louis XI., of France, acquired Burgundy proper as a male fief of France. Bur gundy then formed a province, and is now represented by the four depart ments of Yonne, C8te-d'Or, Saone-et Loire, and Ain. It is watered by a num ber of navigable rivers, and is one of the most productive provinces in France, especially of wines.