As Philip the Good expanded his reach into the Holy Roman Empire, some Imperial Princes greeted him as a new ally, but others saw Burgundian expansion as a threat. Sigismund of Luxembourg, the Holy Roman Emperor, fell into the latter category, and throughout his long career he was a determined, if mostly ineffective opponent of Burgundy.
Time Period Covered: 1421-1437
Notable People: Philip the Good, Emperor Sigismund of Luxembourg, Rene of Anjou, Antoine de Vaudemont, Louis de Chalon Prince of Orange, Jean de Neufchatel, Arnold of Egmond Duke of Guelders, Adolph I of Cleves, Frederick of the Empty Pockets
Notable Events/Developments: Battle of Anthon, Battle of Bulgneville, The Hussite Wars
Left: The the Eastern Neighbors of the Burgundian Low Countries in the later 1400s from Richard Vaughan’s biography of Philip the Good. Right: A Portrait of Emperor Sigismund of Luxembourg.
Sources
Philip the Good by Richard Vaughan
The Promised Lands by Wim Blockmans and Walter Prevenier
The Hundred Years War: Triumph and Illusion by Jonathan Sumption
Magnanimous Dukes and Rising States by Robert Stein
The Good King: Rene of Anjou and Fifteenth Century Europe by Margaret L. Kekewich
In the Shadow of Burgundy: The Court of Guelders in the Late Middle Ages by Gerard Nijsten
The Chronicles of Enguerrand De Monstrelet
The Golden Age of Burgundy by Joseph Calmette
A Companion to the Council of Basel ed. by Michiel Devaluwe, Thomaz M. Izbicki and Gerald Christianson
Grand Dukes of the West 