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. Hugh was the son of Odo III, Duke of Burgundy and Alice de Vergy.

Issue

Hugh married twice, first to Yolande of Dreux when he was 16 and she 17 years of age.Michael Lower, ''The Barons' Crusade: A Call to Arms and Its Consequences'', (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005), 97. He then married Beatrice of Navarre, when he was 45. With Yolande, he had: * Margaret, Lady of Molinot (1230s–1277), married first to William III, lord of Mont St JeanDu Chesne, A. (1628) Histoire géneálogique des ducs de Bourgogne de la maison de France (Paris), Preuves, p. 79-80. and then to Guy VI, viscount of Limoges; their daughter was the first wife of Duke

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* Odo (1230–1266), who married Countess Matilda II of Nevers * John (1231–1268), who married Agnes of Dampierre and had

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, heiress of

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, who married Duke Henry III of Brabant * Robert II (1248–1306), successor in the Duchy of Burgundy With Beatrice, he had: * Hugh, viscount of Avallon * Margaret, lady of Vitteaux, wife of John I of Chalon-Arlay''Philippe Le Bel et la Noblesse Franc-Comtoise'', Frantz Funck-Brentano, ''Bibliothèque de l’École des chartes'', Vol. 49 (1888), 9. *Joan, a nun * Beatrice, lady of Grignon (ca.1260–1329), who married Hugh XIII of Lusignan * Isabella, who married King Rudolf I of Germany

Expansion

Hugh IV, through a transaction with John l'Antique de Chalon, gave up the barony of Salon for the counties of Chalon and Auxonne in 1237, which expanded the Duchy and the regional economy benefited from the growing wine trade.

Barons' Crusade

In 1239, Hugh joined the Barons' Crusade led by King Theobald I of Navarre and supported by

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. The Burgundian troops allied with Richard of Cornwall and rebuilt Ascalon and negotiated a peace with

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in 1241. Hugh was made titular king of

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in 1266, although it had been recaptured by

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more than 40 years before.

Death

Hugh IV died on 27 October 1272 (Aged 60) at Villaines-en-Duismois, France. His burial place is unknown.

Ancestry

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