His father's treasure was squandered, the curse of a standing army fixed upon his people, the trade and manufactures of the country paralyzed by his extortions, and he accomplished nothing.

He lost his life in the forty-fourth year of his age (1477), leaving all the provinces, duchies, and lordships, which formed the miscellaneous realm of Burgundy, to his only child, the Lady Mary.

Thus already the countries which Philip had wrested from the feeble hand of Jacqueline, had fallen to another female.

Philip's own granddaughter, as young, fair, and unprotected as Jacqueline, was now sole mistress of those broad domains.
VIII.
A crisis, both for Burgundy and the Netherlands, succeeds.

Within the provinces there is an elastic rebound, as soon as the pressure is removed from them by the tyrant's death.