The History of Dijon

                                                            Dijon In The Middle-Age                                          

The celtic name of dijon : Divio

THE  ROMAN  ERA A Roman road passes the southwest axis northeast, from Bibracte and Autun to Gray and Alsace, while another from south-east to north-west, Italy to the Paris Basin. Dijon is fortified Lower Empire, by an enclosure protecting a small area of 10 hec. The Roman road Chalon-sur-Saône-Langres was found in places (the park Colombière where it is visible). It goes away from castrumg. This pathway is often seen by the public, wrongly, as being one of the four great Roman roads (the Way Agrippa).

BURGUNDIANS  DIJON Dijon is then occupied by the Burgundians, who were defeated by Clovis in 500 or 501. The Arabs invaded in 725 when the Normans fail to do so in 887.

Dijon capital of Burgundy In 1016 The city joined the Duchy of Burgundy and became the capital. On the death of the King of France in 1031, his son Henry I renounce the privilege yields in Burgundy and Dijon and the duchy of Burgundy to his brother Robert I. This marks the beginning of three centuries of Capetian reign in Dijon. June 28, 1137, a major fire reduced to ashes Dijon. The Dukes then rebuild an enclosure, much wider than the previous one, which houses the city until the eighteenth century.

THE 4 DUKES OF BURGUNDY Duke Philip the Bold (1364-1404) was the first Duke of Valois dynasty and takes possession of Dijon, by order of the king in 1363. He founded his dynastic necropolis Dijon, the Charterhouse of Champmol, he made ​​an art focus. John the Fearless (1404-1419) succeeded him. Duke Philip III the Good (1419-1467) rebuilt the hotel in 1432 and established ducal chapel of his palace as the seat of the Order of the Golden Fleece. But Dijon is not a populous city; still rural and because of epidemics, it has only 13,000 inhabitants in 147444. Duke Charles the Bold (1467-1477), who does not live in Dijon, fails in its fight against the king of France and died in the Battle of Nancy against the Duke René II of Lorraine, together with Louis XI. The powerful Burgundian state then collapses, allowing Louis XI to annex the duchy January 19 1477c 1. Victor