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Hugh V of Burgundy

French noble

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ707654 ↗
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Hugh V (1294 – 9 May 1315) was Duke of Burgundy between 1306 and 1315.

Hugh was the eldest son of Duke Robert II of Burgundy and Agnes of France.

Hugh was betrothed to Catherine of Valois in 1302, but the engagement was broken off on 30 September 1312. He had no known descendants. He was involved in the Crusades and was also titular King of Thessalonica, a title he sold in 1313 to his brother Louis in exchange for the latter's rights to Burgundy. He was succeeded by his younger brother Odo IV, Duke of Burgundy.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Hugh V of Burgundy” is french noble. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Hugh, Burgundy and French, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1294, 1315, 1306, 1302—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1294-01-01. For this dossier, Hugh, Burgundy and French is the immediate research focus.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q707654. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1294, 1315, 1306 and 1302.

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This entry incorporates text from “Hugh V of Burgundy” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.