The Battle of Nancy was the final and decisive battle of the Burgundian Wars, fought outside the walls of Nancy on 5 January 1477 by Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, against René II, Duke of Lorraine, and the Swiss Confederacy.
"Rene takes the town of Nancy", by Pierre Jacobi (1519)
"The Banner of Strasbourg at the Battle of Nancy" by Léo Schnug
Finding of Charles the Bold's corpse, after the battle (Charles Houry, 1862).
Charles the Bold found after the Battle of Nancy (1865), Auguste Feyen-Perrin
The Burgundian Wars (1474–1477) were a conflict between the Burgundian State and the Old Swiss Confederacy and its allies. Open war broke out in 1474, and the Duke of Burgundy, Charles the Bold, was defeated three times on the battlefield in the following years and was killed at the Battle of Nancy in 1477. The Duchy of Burgundy and several other Burgundian lands then became part of France, and the Burgundian Netherlands and Franche-Comté were inherited by Charles's daughter, Mary of Burgundy, and eventually passed to the House of Habsburg upon her death because of her marriage to Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor.
The battle of Morat, from Diebold Schilling's Berne Chronicle
Charles the Bold, a contemporary portrait by Rogier van der Weyden
Assault of the Burgundian army on the walls of Morat (22 June 1476)
