The Medici’s wealth surpasses everyone else wealth because of the business with the Catholic Church. The Medici family can deny anyone a loan and not worry about consequences. Both families control geographic areas of Northern and Southern Europe. Dukes of Burgundy owned land from Holland all the way to central France. Philip the Bold, father of Philip the Good, gained large amount of territory through political marriages and other strategies. According to Marilyn Stokstad, Philip married his way to inherit parts of the Netherlands by marring into a Flemish count’s family (564). According to Geneviève Lacroix, Philip either found ways to inherit lands, he bought land himself, or take by force (“Dukes of Burgundy, ‘the Great Dukes of the West’”).
