Battle of Nancy
January 5, 1477
Charles the Bold, besieging Nancy in January snow, attacked a Swiss relief army and was killed when his horse fell in a frozen stream. Wolves, the chroniclers claimed, had eaten his face by the time the searchers found him. Burgundy's dream of kingship died with him; his daughter Mary inherited a state already being dismembered.
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Era
Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.
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