Mother of the first king of united Spain Charles V.

So here we have the Belgium, Bruges touristic token, nominal - 50. The year of issue of this coin is 1982, mint: Royal Mint of Belgium, Brussel. Total circulation – 75.000.

Mary, also called Mary Of Burgundy, French Marie De Bourgogne, born February 13 in 1457, Brussels — died March 27 in 1482, Bruges, Flanders. Duchess of Burgundy (1477–82), daughter and heiress of Charles the Bold, duke of Burgundy; her crucial marriage to the archduke Maximilian (later Maximilian I), son of the Habsburg emperor Ferdinand III, resulted in Habsburg control of the Netherlands.

Betrothed to Maximilian in 1476, Mary found herself faced with French invasion when she became duchess of Burgundy on her father’s death at Nancy early in 1477. She resisted French pressure to marry the future Charles VIII and became Maximilian’s wife on August 18 in 1477.

Through her own marriage and the subsequent match that was made between her son, Philip the Handsome, and Joanna the Mad of Spain, daughter of Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile, the Netherlands came to be joined with Spain and with the Habsburg’s own Austrian possessions in the hands of her famous grandson, the emperor Charles V.