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Charles the Bold. Charles Martin (10 November 1433 – 5 January 1477) called The Bold [a], was the last Duke of Burgundy from the Burgundian cadet branch of House of Valois from 1467 to 1477. He was the only legitimate son of Philip the Good and his third wife, Isabella of Portugal.
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The Burgundian Wars (1474–1477) were a conflict between the...
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On Monday, February 19, 1476 Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy (much of what is now eastern France), joined his army beneath the gray ramparts of Grandson. His troops, disheartened by an unsuccessful assault the day before, now hailed him with cries of “Burgundy!
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Kept from exerting power in Burgundy by his father's long reign and by a persistent animosity which developed between the two, Charles continually intervened in the struggles between the French king Louis XI and his nobles, particularly during the rebellion known as the League of the Public Weal (1465-1466). After the first of his many truces with ...
In 1474, on the eve of yet another Anglo-Burgundian coalition against France, Charles's single-mindedness and obstinacy drew him into a sequence of diplomatic and military errors. Instead of supporting the invasion force of Edward IV, Charles pursued a fruitless military campaign in Germany, thus abandoning his ally and making it easier for Louis t...
There is no adequate biography of Charles the Bold in English. The standard work, in French, is J. Bartier, Charles le Téméraire (1944). A subsequent work, also in French, is Marcel Brion, Charles le Téméraire, grand duc d'Occident (1947). The life of Charles is adequately treated in Joseph Calmette, The Golden Age of Burgundy (1956; trans. 1963). ...
Vaughan, Richard, Charles the Bold; the last Valois Duke of Burgundy, New York, Barnes & Noble Books 1974, 1973. □
Charles has assumed his rightful position, as the “Napoleon of the Middle Ages,” whose ambition and whose fall exercised a powerful influence on the destinies of the principal European states.
- John Foster Kirk
In the 19th century, during the Romantic Age in France and Belgium the epithet "Charles the Bold" took hold... but his 15th-century contemporaries more frequently had attached to him the nicknames Hardi, Travaillant, Guerrier, even Terrible. SUMMARY: The earliest recorded use of Téméraire to characterize Charles was in 1484 by Thomas Basin ...
Nov 4, 2013 · Charles the Bold; the last Valois Duke of Burgundy. by. Vaughan, Richard, 1927-. Publication date. 1974. Topics. Charles, Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477. Publisher. New York, Barnes & Noble Books.
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Charles I (10 November 1433 – 5 January 1477), nicknamed the Bold was Duke of Burgundy from 1467 to 1477. Categories: 1430s births. 1470s deaths. Counts of Holland.
