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{{ infobox royalty
| name         = Robert II
| image        = Robert II of Burgundy.jpg
| caption      =
| succession   = [[Duke of Burgundy]]
| reign        = 1272 – 1306
| predecessor  = [[Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy|Hugh IV]]
| successor    = [[Hugh V, Duke of Burgundy|Hugh V]]
| house        = [[House of Burgundy]]
| father       = [[Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy]]
| mother       = [[Yolande of Dreux, Duchess of Burgundy|Yolande of Dreux]]
| spouse       = [[Agnes of France, Duchess of Burgundy|Agnes of France]]
| issue        = [[Hugh V, Duke of Burgundy]]<br/>[[Blanche of Burgundy, Countess of Savoy|Blanche, Countess of Savoy]]<br/>[[Margaret of Burgundy, Queen of France|Margaret, Queen of France]]<br/>[[Joan the Lame of Burgundy|Joan, Queen of France]]<br/>[[Odo IV, Duke of Burgundy]]<br/>[[Louis of Burgundy|Louis, Prince of Achaea]]
| birth_date   = 1248
| birth_place  = 
| death_date   = 21 March {{death year and age|1306|1248}}
| death_place  = [[Vernon, Eure|Vernon]]
}}
'''Robert II''' (1248 – 21 March 1306) was [[Duke of Burgundy]] between 1272 and 1306 as well as titular [[king of Thessalonica]]. 

Robert was the third son of [[Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy]], and [[Yolande of Dreux, Duchess of Burgundy|Yolande of Dreux]].{{sfn|Bubenicek|2002|p=54–55}}

He married [[Agnes of France, Duchess of Burgundy|Agnes]], youngest daughter of [[Louis IX of France]], in 1279.{{sfn|Echols|Williams|1992|p=19}} They had the following children:

*[[Hugh V, Duke of Burgundy]] (1294–1315){{sfn|Topping|1975|p=109}}
*[[Blanche of Burgundy, Countess of Savoy|Blanche]] (1288–1348), married [[Edward, Count of Savoy]]{{sfn|Pearson|2017|p=64–65}}
*[[Margaret of Burgundy, Queen of France|Margaret]] (1290–1315), married king [[Louis X of France]]{{sfn|George|1875|loc=table xxviii}}
*[[Joan the Lame of Burgundy|Joan]] (1293–1348), married count of Maine and Valois, king [[Philip VI of France]]{{sfn|Topping|1975|p=109}}
*[[Odo IV, Duke of Burgundy]] (1295–1350){{sfn|George|1875|loc=table xxviii}}
*[[Louis of Burgundy|Louis]], [[Prince of Achaea]] (1297&ndash;1316), married [[Matilda of Hainaut]]{{sfn|Topping|1975|p=109}}
*Mary (1298–1336) married [[Edward I, Count of Bar]]{{sfn|Bubenicek|2002|p=54–55}}
*Robert, Count of Tonnerre (1302–1334), married Joanna, heiress of Tonnerre

In 1284, Robert was invested with the duchy of [[Dauphiné]] by [[Rudolf I of Germany|Rudolf of Habsburg]].{{sfn|Cox|1999|p=371}} This was followed by two years of warfare which was ended when [[Philip IV of France|King Philip{{nbsp}}IV]] of [[Kingdom of France|France]] paid Robert 20,000 {{lang|fr|[[livres tournois]]}} to renounce his claim to the [[Dauphiné]].{{sfn|Cox|1999|p=371}} He was among the French negotiators for the [[1303 Treaty of Paris]] that ended the 1294–1303 [[Gascon War]].{{sfnp|Rymer & al.|1745|loc=[https://archive.org/details/fderaconventione01ryme/page/24/mode/2up "Tractatus Perpetuae Paciis & Amicitiae inter Angliae & Franciae Reges Firmatus & Juratus"] [Treaty of Perpetual Peace and Friendship between the Kings of England & France Confirmed & Sworn]}}

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 entire duchy (albeit diminished by earlier dowries) passed via [[primogeniture]] unfragmented to the duke's eldest son.

==References==
===Citations===
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===Sources===
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*{{cite book |first=Michelle |last=Bubenicek |title=Quand les femmes gouvernent: droit et politique au XIVe siècle:Yolande de Flandre, Droit et politique au XIV siecle |publisher=Ecole des Chartes |year=2002 }}
*{{cite book |chapter=The kingdom of Burgundy, the lands of the house of Savoy and adjacent territories |first=Eugene |last=Cox |title=The New Cambridge Medieval History: Volume 5, C.1198–c.1300 |editor-first1=David |editor-last1=Abulafia |editor-first2=Rosamond |editor-last2=McKitterick |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=1999 }}
*{{cite book |first1=Anne |last1=Echols |first2=Marty |last2=Williams |title=An Annotated Index of Medieval Women |publisher=Marcus Weiner Publishing Inc. |year=1992 }}
*{{cite book |first=Hereford Brooke |last=George |title=Genealogical Tables Illustrative of Modern History |publisher=Oxford Clarendon Press |year=1875 }}
*{{cite book |title=Envisioning Gender in Burgundian Devotional Art, 1350–1530: Experience, Authority, Resistance |first=Andrea |last=Pearson |publisher=Routledge |year=2017  }}
* {{citation |editor-last=Rymer |editor-first=Thomas |ref={{harvid|Rymer & al.|1745}} |editor-link=Thomas Rymer |url=https://archive.org/details/fderaconventione01ryme/page/n5/mode/2up |title=Foedera, Conventiones, Literae, et Cujuscunque Generis Acta Publica inter Reges Angliae et Alios Quosvis Imperatores, Reges, Pontifices, Principes, vel Communitates... |editor2=Robert Sanderson |display-editors=1 |publisher=Jean Neaulme |location=The Hague |date=1745 |edition=3rd |volume=I, Pt. 4 |pages=24–29 |language=la, fr |trans-title=Treaties, Conventions, Letters, and Public Proceedings of Any Kind between the Kings of England and Any Other Emperors, Kings, Popes, Princes, or Communities... }}.
*{{cite book |chapter=The Morea, 1311–1460 |first=Peter |last=Topping |title=A History of the Crusades: The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries |editor-first=Harry W. |editor-last=Hazard |volume=III |publisher=The University of Wisconsin Press |year=1975 }}
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==See also==
*[[Dukes of Burgundy family tree]]

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[[Category:1248 births]]
[[Category:1306 deaths]]
[[Category:House of Burgundy]]
[[Category:Titular kings of Thessalonica]]
[[Category:Dukes of Burgundy]]
[[Category:13th-century peers of France]]
[[Category:14th-century peers of France]]