diff --git a/modules/Router.js b/modules/Router.js
index e487a2f323..dd2787480b 100644
--- a/modules/Router.js
+++ b/modules/Router.js
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ class Router extends Component {
     history: object,
     children: routes,
     routes, // alias for children
+    RoutingContext: func.isRequired,
     createElement: func,
     onError: func,
     onUpdate: func,
@@ -26,6 +27,10 @@ class Router extends Component {
     stringifyQuery: func
   }
 
+  static defaultProps = {
+    RoutingContext
+  }
+
   constructor(props, context) {
     super(props, context)
 
@@ -80,12 +85,17 @@ class Router extends Component {
 
   render() {
     let { location, routes, params, components } = this.state
-    let { createElement } = this.props
+    let { RoutingContext, createElement, ...props } = this.props
 
     if (location == null)
       return null // Async match
 
+    // Only forward non-Router-specific props to routing context, as those are
+    // the only ones that might be custom routing context props.
+    Object.keys(Router.propTypes).forEach(propType => delete props[propType])
+
     return React.createElement(RoutingContext, {
+      ...props,
       history: this.history,
       createElement,
       location,
diff --git a/modules/__tests__/Router-test.js b/modules/__tests__/Router-test.js
index 97d2b82663..8f469e6852 100644
--- a/modules/__tests__/Router-test.js
+++ b/modules/__tests__/Router-test.js
@@ -2,8 +2,9 @@ import expect from 'expect'
 import React, { Component } from 'react'
 import { render, unmountComponentAtNode } from 'react-dom'
 import createHistory from 'history/lib/createMemoryHistory'
-import Router from '../Router'
 import Route from '../Route'
+import Router from '../Router'
+import RoutingContext from '../RoutingContext'
 
 describe('Router', function () {
 
@@ -248,4 +249,98 @@ describe('Router', function () {
 
   })
 
+  describe('RoutingContext', function () {
+    it('applies custom RoutingContext', function (done) {
+      const Parent = ({ children }) => <span>parent:{children}</span>
+      const Child = () => <span>child</span>
+
+      class LabelWrapper extends Component {
+        static defaultProps = {
+          createElement: React.createElement
+        }
+
+        createElement = (component, props) => {
+          const { label, createElement } = this.props
+
+          return (
+            <span>
+              {label}-inner:{createElement(component, props)}
+            </span>
+          )
+        }
+
+        render() {
+          const { label, children } = this.props
+          const child = React.cloneElement(children, {
+            createElement: this.createElement
+          })
+
+          return (
+            <span>
+              {label}-outer:{child}
+            </span>
+          )
+        }
+      }
+
+      const CustomRoutingContext = props => (
+        <LabelWrapper label="m1">
+          <LabelWrapper label="m2">
+            <RoutingContext {...props} />
+          </LabelWrapper>
+        </LabelWrapper>
+      )
+
+      render((
+        <Router
+          history={createHistory('/child')}
+          RoutingContext={CustomRoutingContext}
+        >
+          <Route path="/" component={Parent}>
+            <Route path="child" component={Child} />
+          </Route>
+        </Router>
+      ), node, function () {
+        // Note that the nesting order is inverted for `createElement`, because
+        // the order of function application is outermost-first.
+        expect(node.textContent).toBe(
+          'm1-outer:m2-outer:m2-inner:m1-inner:parent:m2-inner:m1-inner:child'
+        )
+        done()
+      })
+    })
+
+    it('passes router props to custom RoutingContext', function (done) {
+      const MyComponent = () => <div />
+      const route = { path: '/', component: MyComponent }
+
+      const Wrapper = (
+        { routes, components, foo, RoutingContext, children }
+      ) => {
+        expect(routes).toEqual([ route ])
+        expect(components).toEqual([ MyComponent ])
+        expect(foo).toBe('bar')
+        expect(RoutingContext).toNotExist()
+        done()
+
+        return children
+      }
+      const CustomRoutingContext = props => (
+        <Wrapper {...props}>
+          <RoutingContext {...props} />
+        </Wrapper>
+      )
+
+      render((
+        <Router
+          history={createHistory('/')}
+          routes={route}
+          RoutingContext={CustomRoutingContext}
+          foo="bar"
+        />
+      ), node)
+    })
+
+  })
+
 })