Verse 3
On September 2, 1481, Mary of Burgundy would give birth to another daughter named Eleanor.
On 1482, a falcon hunt in the woods near Wijnendale Castle was organised by Adolph of Cleves, Lord of Ravenstein, who lived in the castle. Mary loved riding and was hunting with Maximilian and knights of the Court when her horse tripped, threw Maximilian in a ditch, and then landed on top of her, breaking her back. Maximilian died several weeks later, on 27 March, from internal injuries, Maximilian would and would leave his infant son Philip as the heir of the Holy Roman Empire and the Burgundian inheritance.
Louis was swift to re-engage hostilities with Mary of Burgundy and forced her to agree to the Treaty of Arras of 1482, by which Franche-Comté and Artois passed for a time to French rule and for Mary of Burgundy to marry the Dauphin when he reaches of his own right age on 1483, on 1484, the two were married and Mary of Burgundy would prove to be a good regent for the King and expelled Anne de Beajeu from the Court as well and left her children with Maximilian under the guard of the Netherlands nobility.
Mary of Burgundy would give birth to three further children, Louis b. September 21, 1484, Charlotte of France b. November 15, 1486 and Charles b. October 11, 1488.
Mary of Burgundy would end being the regent on 1488, when her second husband was able to rule himself without her own advices and she would stay out of the French affairs and left to her Lower Countries’ possessions where in she would champion the Independence of the low countries and the inheritance and as well as the marriage of her two daughters Margaret and Eleanor and had Margaret betrothed to James IV of Scotland.
Mary of Burgundy would die on 1493, with her sons scrambling for their inheritance and Margaret betrothed to James IV of Scotland.
The estates of Netherlands would argue about the old inheritance of Flanders and Hainault and chose that both Artois, Luxembourg and Hainault which has a Latin population would go to Louis while Philip would inherit Flanders due to Philip being a German and a Dutchman himself.
The historians would say that both the marriages of Mary of Burgundy will solve the problems of the Holy Roman Empire and France on the French borders.
Both the Germans and the French would treat the borders of the succession agreement as binding and valid, the lands of Philip of Austria would be the basis of the future Kingdom of Netherlands..
The decision of Artois and Hainault going to the French throne would mean in the future that
On 1495, Margaret would be surprised about her groom, James IV of Scotland, she would enter with her own Burgundian retinue which her husband would dismiss as soon as she arrived, she would only have two children surviving infancy, Margaret, Princess of Scotland b. 1499 and James, duke of Rothesay b. 1507.
Charles VIII would remarry to Bianca Maria Sforza, a marriage that would produce two daughters named Claude b. December 2, 1499 and Renee May 2, 1510.
Due to Philip being engaged as the ruler of the low countries the Sigismund, Archduke of Austria would demand his own brother, Fredrich as to make him as own heir in Austria and Sigismund would have an only heir, Wolfgang b. 1480 from his dead wife, Eleanor of Scotland who is strong and sturdy and would remarry to Catherine of Saxony after the death of his own first wife.