Robert II of Burgundy (1248 – 21 March 1306) was

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between 1272 and 1306 as well as titular

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. Robert was the third son of duke Hugh IV and Yolande of Dreux. He married Agnes, youngest daughter of Louis IX of France, in 1279 and had the following issue: * Hugh V, Duke of Burgundy (1282–1315) * Blanche (1288–1348), married

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* Margaret (1290–1315), married king

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(1295–1350)Hereford Brooke George, Genealogical Tables Illustrative of Modern History, (Oxford Clarendon Press, 1875), table XXVIII *

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*Robert, Count of Tonnerre (1302–1334), married Joanna, heiress of Tonnerre In 1284, Robert was invested with the duchy of

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. This was followed by two years of warfare which was ended when King Philip IV of France paid Robert 20,000 ''livres tournois'' to renounce his claim to the

. Robert ended the practice of giving away parts of the Burgundian estate to younger sons and as dowries to the daughters. From then on, the whole duchy, however already diminished by earlier dowries, passed unfragmented to the eldest son.

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