text:  This marriage conveying all the dominions of Burgundy to Maximilian and his heirs established a great independent sovereign on the frontiers of France giving to him on the north not only the present kingdoms of Holland and Belgium but large portions of what is now French territory the old provinces of Artois and French Flanders French Hainault and French Luxemburg; while on the east it gave him Franche Comte thus yielding him a footing within the Jura on the very banks of the Saone