Free County of Burgundy

State · 1333–1384 CE · at its largest around 1333 CE

The Franche-Comté, a county east of the Duchy of Burgundy that lay within the Holy Roman Empire and passed by inheritance to the Valois dukes of Burgundy in the later 14th century.

On its lands while it lasted

• Trier (16 BCE – 1618 CE): Capital of Electorate of Trier (1333–1618).
• Dole (c. 1333 CE): Capital of Free County of Burgundy (1333–1384).
• Battle of Crécy (1346 CE): English longbowmen under Edward III defeated a much larger French army in northern France.
• Christine de Pizan (c. 1364 CE – 1430 CE): Italian-born writer at the French court whose Book of the City of Ladies defended women; one of Europe's first professional women writers.

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