The Fall of Burgundy: The Battle of Nancy 1477 | The Burgundian Wars Pt. 4

In the 1470s the Old Swiss Confederacy and its allies clashed with the expansionist Burgundian duke Charles the Bold in a series of armed confrontations. In the spring of 1476 Charles led his first campaign against the Old Swiss Confederacy. His army met the Swiss near the town of Grandson, was caught on the wrong foot and fled. The Swiss found an immense amount of loot in the Burgundian field camp. According to an old Swiss proverb, at Grandson Charles lost his goods. However, he was all but defeated and recruited another army and marched towards the Swiss city of Bern again. When the Burgundians were besieging the town of Morat which lay between them and Bern, the Swiss relief army attacked them. This time, the Burgundian defeat was devastating. Charles lost almost his entire army and he himself escaped only by the skin of his teeth. At Morat, the proverb continues, Charles lost his bravery. This video is the fourth installment of a series on the Burgundian Wars and explains how contemporary historiography recounts the battle of Nancy.


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