A few centuries later, the company of the dukes of Valois deeply marks its history. Philip the Bold, John the Fearless, Philip the Good and Charles the Bold made their state a great European power that includes Belgium and Holland today. This State became the rival of the kingdom of France. Philip the Good, founder of the Order of the Golden Fleece, made his court shine and spread his fame to the East. His son Charles the Bold quells the revolts of Ghent in Flanders and Liege. He raised the state of Burgundy to its peak, but his death at the Battle of Nancy in 1477 brought definitively the properly Burgundian part of the duchy into the domain of the crown. However, the daughter of Charles, Mary of Burgundy, saves his power over the northern states, giving birth to a progeny that leads to Charles V says Charles V, born in Ghent, who never ceased to claim Burgundy, source of incessant conflict with the French monarchy.