[1] She was the eighth of the nine children of Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, and his wife Margaret III, Countess of Flanders.

[2] From her birth, Mary's father intended her to marry Amadeus VIII of Savoy, son of Amadeus VII, Count of Savoy and Bonne of Berry.

Their marriage was contracted in the year of her birth, on 11 November 1386 in Sluis, Zeeland; they married by proxy 30 October 1393 in Chalon-sur-Saône and in person at Arras in May 1401, when Mary was around 15 years old.

[4] In 1416, Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor elevated Amadeus from Count to Duke of Savoy.

The couple were married for thirty-six years before Mary died in the beginning of October 1428[a] at Chateau of Thonon-les-Bains.