On this anniversary of the Battle of Nancy, who objected, January 5, 1477, Duke René II of Lorraine (you find the biography here : http://patrimoine-de-lorraine.blogspot.com/2011/01/le-duc-rene-ii-de-lorraine.html ) to Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, I invite you to read article I wrote for the journal Medieval History Publishing Harnois in 2004.
Happy reading ...
Happy reading ...
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Upon accession to the duchy of Lorraine Rene II August 2, 1473, Charles of Burgundy challenged the principality, dreaming to incorporate its heritage. The ensuing battle, finally settled the claims in Burgundy.
Charles the Bold (Bold the name of is late) obtained with the treaty signed in Nancy October 15, 1473 the right to place garrisons in several fortresses Lorraine Burgundy him to link all its lands (Burgundy, Charolais, the valley of Flanders, Brabant, Hainaut , Artois, Picardy, Luxembourg and Thionville County).
Dissatisfied, the Duke of Lorraine worked to harass his troops through ambushes.
Determined, Charles laid siege to Nancy. The Burgundian bombards shaking the walls gradually, Rene II preferred to order on November 25 2200 Germans and 500 Gascons present his side Nancy to leave, they will do 27. Nancy
the hands of the Grand Duke Jean de Rubempre, Lord de Bievre, became governor of Lorraine and chief Burgundian garrison.
Rebellion of René II of Lorraine
advantage of the departure of Charles of Burgundy, February 14, 1476 for Switzerland, where he would submit the "cowboys" who took many of its castles, Rene II besieged and took the ducal city.
The news of this decision antagonized Charles, who marched in the direction of Lorraine with 10 to 12 000 men. In Pont-à-Mousson, the battle was almost engaged between the two factions but Rene II preferred to retire considering his numerical inferiority.
The Duke of Burgundy, who had placed their trust in condottiere Neapolitan Cola II Monteforte, Earl Campo Basso, a traitor sold to the King of France and duke of Lorraine, was abandoned some of its allies.
Charles set up his headquarters at St. John Commandery, and ordered the siege of Nancy since October 22, 1476. Meanwhile, the Duke of Lorraine had surreptitiously moved his capital to seek help from the Swiss cantons and Alsatians. Lorraine Garrison and inhabitants of Nancy promised to hold as long as possible.
The Burgundian assault of 26 December 1476 was very costly in men, Charles lost a third of its workforce. The cold and snow also caused the death of 400 Burgundians in the Christmas night. Then, as scheduled, on 1 January, the Count of Campo Basso left the camp of Charles Duke with his citing condotta to go before reinforcements from Flanders; in fact, the Duke of Lorraine had guaranteed the lordship of Commercy in exchange for his help.
arrived in Basel, November 2, 1476, Rene II managed to convince the Swiss cantons of help in this difficult task to recover his duchy. He then turned to Bern and Lucerne, where he promised them a large sum. The butler ducal Suffren Baschi was then instructed to go to Nancy to prevent the garrison and inhabitants of the imminent arrival of Duke but was captured and hanged by the Burgundians (in retaliation René II demanded the execution of a hundred prisoners). Continuing its recruitment campaign, the Duke of Lorraine arrived in Alsace for the Alsatians convince of the merits of his complaint. William Herter Strasbourg willingly agreed to help. Meanwhile, the Swiss were concentrated in Basel before crossing the Alsace, where they indulged in looting vile. Oswald Thierstein regulated the amount of 2500 guilders, first promised to pay fighters Swiss and Alsatian.
January 3, 1477, Rene II spent at Croismare and 4 arrived at Saint-Nicolas-de-Port, a rallying point for fighters, in morning. The Swiss, Germans and Alsatians are managed in the afternoon. A lantern was placed on the steeple of the Basilica of Saint-Nicolas to alert people of Nancy the imminent arrival of Duke.
The forces and the battlefield
Burgundian sources of Olivier de la Marche and Jean Margny provide scant information . For cons, the allied side, information is more talkative with such stories of living and Lucerne Peterman Etterlin Diebold Schilling and Peter Blarru, characters who took part in the battle. Finally, the chronicle of Lorraine, the source should not be overlooked, should be considered with caution.
The composition of both armies was heterogeneous. Indeed, Rene II had managed to raise almost 20,000 fighters (in The true statement of fact and conduct of the battle of Nancy , Rene II indicated that his army consisted of 19 to 20 000 men) from Switzerland Alsace and elsewhere, and Charles of Burgundy in 6000 and collected between 10 000 including Dutch, Savoy, English and Italian mercenaries. The allies
Rene II was familiar with the Swiss and the Strasburg to have fought alongside them in Murten with 250 riders. He was even knighted ( ritterschlag ) on this occasion by William Herter of Hertenegg in the clearing of Lurtingen June 22 at age 20. The Neapolitan condottiere
Cola II Monteforte, accompanied by his son, his brother Angelo and his cousin John brought his help to Rene II by joining with 300 riders. The Burgundians
The army of the Duke of Burgundy gave a poor image from the stinging defeat of Grandson and Morat in March and June 1476. It seemed only natural that Charles of Burgundy could not set up an army to match its ambitions. We know that December 8, 1476, approximately 10,000 men were paid for their service by the prince but the weather and the frozen conflicts disrupted this military potential. Beside him were his brother, the other between Grand Bastard Antoine, Philippe de Croy, Comte de Chimay, Engelberg II Count of Nassau-Dillenburg, Frederick Florsheim Count of Baden, Philip Hochberg Count of Neufchatel and Olivier de la Marche.
Two bodies of cavalry were commanded by Josse and Lalaing condottiere Neapolitan Jacques de Galeotto. Charles had planned artillery. English archers mounted, Savoy and Dutch troops completed the device.
A losing battle
January 5, 1477 It was snowing. After reading the Cyropaedia , Charles of Burgundy gathered his troops early in the morning. He mounted his black horse called Moreau and according to accounts from the time when her groom handed him his helmet, crest, a lion of gold overlying the detached itself and fell to the ground, Duke should have disabused pronounced " hoc signum Dei "(this is an omen of God). He then redoubled ardor, stood in the center with his artillery (the exact location of the current Notre-Dame-de-Bonsecours) in front of him on the road from Jarville, the English archers behind, and asked Josse de Lalaing and its riders to take a position on its right and Jacques Galeotto to settle with his men on his left. Meurthe protected the left flank and wood Saurupt the right flank.
In front, the allies had Saint-Nicolas-de-Port, they had left at eight o'clock in the morning. They stopped just before the village Jarville to determine the battle plan. Burgundians captured two deserters revealed to Rene II and its allies available to troops Bold and the terrain. Throughout the discussion, the snow was falling in large flakes. Take the right flank held by the cavalry Lalang was the key to this battle. The running order was decided. René II ascended on his gray mare Lady then stood at the head of the army with his cavalry Lorraine. The Count of Campo Basso was sent to Bouxières aux Dames for guarding the bridge and to prevent leakage of the Burgundians by the main road to Metz.
Vanguard (3 riders or 400 Lorraine and French) controlled by the lord of Rosieres-aux-Salines, Vautrin Wisse, then borrowed the little trail around the wood Saurupt, crossed the creek Heillecourt, passed near the farm of the Malgrange, crossed the creek Jarville, cut the road in Vandoeuvre, obliterated the Ruisseau de la Madeleine, advanced under cover of woods Saurupt and stopped at the edge of the latter to one kilometer positions Burgundy. Pikemen, and halberdiers Couleuvriniers Swiss, Rene II and his lieutenants Oswald Thierstein top of him followed suit. The combatants were exhausted after flyaround by the bitter cold and heavy snow. In the early afternoon, Charles of Burgundy was unaware of the presence of such a force (400 riders, 4000 Couleuvriniers, 4000 pikemen, 3000 and 2000 men halberdiers weapon) on his right flank, ready force to pounce.
William Herter remained on the road to Nancy attempted an attack but the Burgundian artillery drove them violently.
At 13 hours, the snow stopped falling and the sun appeared and the order to attack was given then. The Swiss made then blew three long and dismal blows of trumpet (the cantons of Uri and Nidwalden!) Signal for the assault. The surprise was complete, riders Josse Lalaing submerged recoiled. Artillery Charles powerless, could not hold back the flow of fighters Swiss Lorraine, Alsace and Germany. The Swiss advanced Couleuvriniers by unloading all their ammunition, followed halberdiers and pikemen who spitted the Burgundians still alive.
The army remained in front of the Bold also went on the attack. The captured artillery was turned against the Burgundians. The English archers inflicted losses to the allies, but they quickly gave way to do this human tide. Jacques of Galeotto, crippled, withdrew across the ford Tomblaine then fled towards the north.
The Duke of Burgundy and his men attacked from all sides retreated to St. John Commandery and to Bouxières aux Dames. Overtaken by the Swiss and Lorraine, they were finished by the pond St. John. Charles, wounded, collapsed. Claude Bauzemont, lord of Saint-Die, finished the Grand Duke of an ax on the head.
fight, John von Max Eckwersheim captured the Count of Nassau, Jean Bidos, lord of Pont-Saint-Vincent Anthony the Great and William the Bastard Rappolstein Count of Chimay. According to a columnist Swiss, Burgundians 5699 corpses lay in the plain Nancy, a figure presumably including fighters died in the seats Nancy. The small army of Charles lost in any case two thirds of its workforce if it refers to the number of English archers companies returned to their homeland in January and February 1477. This defeat was bitter and costly in men.
The honors went to Bold
Monday 6 January 1477, Rene II obsessed with the Bold went looking for him, interrogated prisoners, sent men to survey the Lorraine and even beyond. The survey remained unsuccessful when evening came the Neapolitan Montforte Cola brought him a young page Roman Baptiste Colonna. The latter told him he was serving the prince as he looked up and saw him collapse at the pond near St. John.
The next day, Tuesday 7, Page led the Duke of Lorraine in the Virelay meadow near the pond where Saint John he presented his master, lying among other bodies. He was naked, stripped of his finery, his head covered in ice, one cheek devoured by a wolf and body trampled by horses. The Portuguese Grand Duke physician, was summoned Lopo da Guarda. He made a thorough inspection of his prince, he raised his head was split by an ax, two deep wounds in the lower back and thighs due to pikes; then recognized through six signs: missing teeth in its jaw, a scar on his neck (the result of a spear in the battle of Montlhéry), the trace of a boil on his shoulder, nails short, a big toe on his left foot, an ingrown toenail and the trace of a fistula in right testicle.
formally identified the body of Charles was brought into a house, Nancy, at George Mark, his body was washed and dressed in a long embroidered robe and head covered with a red cap. On Saturday, January 11, embalming body was held and the next day, Rene II had celebrated Mass at 6 am in the church of Saint George. Finally, the body of the Bold and that of Jean de Rubempre were buried in the transept.
As stressed Peter Ram in the nineteenth century in his history of chronic Liege at the time of Charles the Bold: " Duke lost his treasure in Grandson, honor and life in Murten Nancy . In Nancy, as Héricourt and Morat, battle was fought along three axes: surprise, panic and slaughter. The numerical superiority of the coalition was right Burgundians.
The Burgundian power ended after more than a century of proud history, January 5, 1477 in Nancy. The Grand Duke died, the attachment of his duchy to the crown of France, theoretically made January 31, 1477, has actually asked a conquest marked in particular by the popular uprisings of Dijon (1477), Beaune and Auxois (1478 ).
Historical Sources:
BLARRU Stone, The War Nancéide or Nancy, translation of F. Schütz, 1840.
BLARRU Stone, The Nancéide, a poem dedicated to the victory in front of Nancy by René II of Lorraine dcu on the Duke of Burgundy, Charles the Bold, January 5, 1477, translated by John Boes - (Collection "Etudes old 32 ") - Editions De Boccard - 2006
Different chronic
Bibliography Selective
The Battle of Nancy, 1477-1977 exhibition catalog, Museum History Lorrain.
Five hundredth centenary of the Battle of Nancy 1477, Conference Proceedings, 1977, University of Nancy II.
FREDERIX, Death of Charles the Bold, Gallimard, 1971.
PFISTER, History of Nancy, Paris 1902-1909.
BATTLE NANCY - January 5, 1477
The end of the Bold
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"The Battle of Nancy, Jan. 5, 1477"
Miniature from the manuscript "The Nancéide "Pierre de Blarru. Late fifteenth century.
left, Swiss and Lorraine, Rene II top load the Burgundians.
Above, the Duke of Burgundy and his horse died.
In the lower right corner, Campo Basso massacre the Burgundians on the run.
In the bottom left, allied forces have captured Burgundian cannons
and have turned to the enemy. In the field, the battle is raging.
At the high end, the city of Nancy
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Upon accession to the duchy of Lorraine Rene II August 2, 1473, Charles of Burgundy challenged the principality, dreaming to incorporate its heritage. The ensuing battle, finally settled the claims in Burgundy.
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Dissatisfied, the Duke of Lorraine worked to harass his troops through ambushes.
"The Duke René II at the Battle of Nancy, Jan. 5, 1477"
Miniature from the manuscript "The Nancéide" Pierre de Blarru. Late fifteenth century.
the hands of the Grand Duke Jean de Rubempre, Lord de Bievre, became governor of Lorraine and chief Burgundian garrison.
The equestrian statue of René II of Lorraine
Bronze Mathias Schiff - 1883
Nancy - Place Saint-Epvre
Rebellion of René II of Lorraine
advantage of the departure of Charles of Burgundy, February 14, 1476 for Switzerland, where he would submit the "cowboys" who took many of its castles, Rene II besieged and took the ducal city.
Effigy of Rene II on the door of Nancy Craffe
The news of this decision antagonized Charles, who marched in the direction of Lorraine with 10 to 12 000 men. In Pont-à-Mousson, the battle was almost engaged between the two factions but Rene II preferred to retire considering his numerical inferiority.
The Duke of Burgundy, who had placed their trust in condottiere Neapolitan Cola II Monteforte, Earl Campo Basso, a traitor sold to the King of France and duke of Lorraine, was abandoned some of its allies.
Nancy - Gate Craffe (fourteenth century)
Charles set up his headquarters at St. John Commandery, and ordered the siege of Nancy since October 22, 1476. Meanwhile, the Duke of Lorraine had surreptitiously moved his capital to seek help from the Swiss cantons and Alsatians. Lorraine Garrison and inhabitants of Nancy promised to hold as long as possible.
Charles the Bold besieging Nancy, October 22, 1476.
wood engraving showing Nancéide. 1518.
Collection of Lorraine, Nancy
The Burgundian assault of 26 December 1476 was very costly in men, Charles lost a third of its workforce. The cold and snow also caused the death of 400 Burgundians in the Christmas night. Then, as scheduled, on 1 January, the Count of Campo Basso left the camp of Charles Duke with his citing condotta to go before reinforcements from Flanders; in fact, the Duke of Lorraine had guaranteed the lordship of Commercy in exchange for his help.
arrived in Basel, November 2, 1476, Rene II managed to convince the Swiss cantons of help in this difficult task to recover his duchy. He then turned to Bern and Lucerne, where he promised them a large sum. The butler ducal Suffren Baschi was then instructed to go to Nancy to prevent the garrison and inhabitants of the imminent arrival of Duke but was captured and hanged by the Burgundians (in retaliation René II demanded the execution of a hundred prisoners). Continuing its recruitment campaign, the Duke of Lorraine arrived in Alsace for the Alsatians convince of the merits of his complaint. William Herter Strasbourg willingly agreed to help. Meanwhile, the Swiss were concentrated in Basel before crossing the Alsace, where they indulged in looting vile. Oswald Thierstein regulated the amount of 2500 guilders, first promised to pay fighters Swiss and Alsatian.
The Basilica of Saint Nicolas de Port
January 3, 1477, Rene II spent at Croismare and 4 arrived at Saint-Nicolas-de-Port, a rallying point for fighters, in morning. The Swiss, Germans and Alsatians are managed in the afternoon. A lantern was placed on the steeple of the Basilica of Saint-Nicolas to alert people of Nancy the imminent arrival of Duke.
Standard of the Duke René II of Lorraine
The forces and the battlefield
Burgundian sources of Olivier de la Marche and Jean Margny provide scant information . For cons, the allied side, information is more talkative with such stories of living and Lucerne Peterman Etterlin Diebold Schilling and Peter Blarru, characters who took part in the battle. Finally, the chronicle of Lorraine, the source should not be overlooked, should be considered with caution.
The composition of both armies was heterogeneous. Indeed, Rene II had managed to raise almost 20,000 fighters (in The true statement of fact and conduct of the battle of Nancy , Rene II indicated that his army consisted of 19 to 20 000 men) from Switzerland Alsace and elsewhere, and Charles of Burgundy in 6000 and collected between 10 000 including Dutch, Savoy, English and Italian mercenaries. The allies
Affairs Swiss Couleuvriniers, pikemen and halberdiers.
Stone Blarru. Nancéide
The Woodcut. XV End.
contingents of horsemen Lorraine were under the command of Rene II and Count of his marshal Oswald 1 of Thierstein. The Swiss, who made up the main core of the Duke of Lorraine with 6000 volunteers (pikemen, and halberdiers Couleuvriniers), followed by Zurich (2430 men), Lucerne (1 200 men), Berne (1087 men) and other Orte (Schaffhausen, Solothurn, Appenzell, Fribourg, and Unterwalden Uri). The Lucerne Hassfurt Henrich, the Zurich and Bern Hans Waldmann Brandolfe Stein were the principal captains. The Alsace (Colmar and Strasbourg), under the command of William Herter of Strasbourg and Basel Hertenegg each furnished a contingent of infantry. The abbot of St. Gall, Count Eberhard VI of Württemberg and the cities of Schaffhausen and Rothweil sent riders. On top of that army, waving banners and pennants of the bishops of Basel and Strasbourg and the Duke of Austria, Sigismund. 
Affairs Lorraine. Reconstitution Company Medieval
"The Massena Saint-Michel de Saint-Mihiel. Blâmont July 7, 2003.
Cola II Monteforte, accompanied by his son, his brother Angelo and his cousin John brought his help to Rene II by joining with 300 riders. The Burgundians
The army of the Duke of Burgundy gave a poor image from the stinging defeat of Grandson and Morat in March and June 1476. It seemed only natural that Charles of Burgundy could not set up an army to match its ambitions. We know that December 8, 1476, approximately 10,000 men were paid for their service by the prince but the weather and the frozen conflicts disrupted this military potential. Beside him were his brother, the other between Grand Bastard Antoine, Philippe de Croy, Comte de Chimay, Engelberg II Count of Nassau-Dillenburg, Frederick Florsheim Count of Baden, Philip Hochberg Count of Neufchatel and Olivier de la Marche.
Two bodies of cavalry were commanded by Josse and Lalaing condottiere Neapolitan Jacques de Galeotto. Charles had planned artillery. English archers mounted, Savoy and Dutch troops completed the device.
A losing battle
Battle of Nancy
Print by Pierre Alexandre Aveline the Younger (1702-1760)
Print Room - This BNF
Print Room - This BNF
January 5, 1477 It was snowing. After reading the Cyropaedia , Charles of Burgundy gathered his troops early in the morning. He mounted his black horse called Moreau and according to accounts from the time when her groom handed him his helmet, crest, a lion of gold overlying the detached itself and fell to the ground, Duke should have disabused pronounced " hoc signum Dei "(this is an omen of God). He then redoubled ardor, stood in the center with his artillery (the exact location of the current Notre-Dame-de-Bonsecours) in front of him on the road from Jarville, the English archers behind, and asked Josse de Lalaing and its riders to take a position on its right and Jacques Galeotto to settle with his men on his left. Meurthe protected the left flank and wood Saurupt the right flank.
Location of the two armies before the battle.
In front, the allies had Saint-Nicolas-de-Port, they had left at eight o'clock in the morning. They stopped just before the village Jarville to determine the battle plan. Burgundians captured two deserters revealed to Rene II and its allies available to troops Bold and the terrain. Throughout the discussion, the snow was falling in large flakes. Take the right flank held by the cavalry Lalang was the key to this battle. The running order was decided. René II ascended on his gray mare Lady then stood at the head of the army with his cavalry Lorraine. The Count of Campo Basso was sent to Bouxières aux Dames for guarding the bridge and to prevent leakage of the Burgundians by the main road to Metz.
Movement bypass troops and Swiss Lorraine
by woods and Jarville Saurupt.
and Lorraine Swiss troops attacked the Burgundians, especially
Lalang and its riders. The Strasbourg
William Herter remained on the road to Nancy attempted an attack but the Burgundian artillery drove them violently.
Continuing the attack of the allies. The troops remained on the road leading to
Nancy capture the guns of the Duke of Burgundy.
At 13 hours, the snow stopped falling and the sun appeared and the order to attack was given then. The Swiss made then blew three long and dismal blows of trumpet (the cantons of Uri and Nidwalden!) Signal for the assault. The surprise was complete, riders Josse Lalaing submerged recoiled. Artillery Charles powerless, could not hold back the flow of fighters Swiss Lorraine, Alsace and Germany. The Swiss advanced Couleuvriniers by unloading all their ammunition, followed halberdiers and pikemen who spitted the Burgundians still alive.
troops are continuing Swiss and Burgundians Lorraine
to the St. John Commandery. The condottiere Jacques de Galeotto
fled the ford Tomblaine
The army remained in front of the Bold also went on the attack. The captured artillery was turned against the Burgundians. The English archers inflicted losses to the allies, but they quickly gave way to do this human tide. Jacques of Galeotto, crippled, withdrew across the ford Tomblaine then fled towards the north.
Nancy - Tour of St. John Commandery of Old Aître (twelfth century)
Not far from where the pond was
Saint-Jean (now Square Cross of Burgundy)
Saint-Jean (now Square Cross of Burgundy)
where was found the body of the Bold
Commemorative plaque placed on the outside wall of the tower
Commandery St. John's Old Aître
The Duke of Burgundy and his men attacked from all sides retreated to St. John Commandery and to Bouxières aux Dames. Overtaken by the Swiss and Lorraine, they were finished by the pond St. John. Charles, wounded, collapsed. Claude Bauzemont, lord of Saint-Die, finished the Grand Duke of an ax on the head.
Galeotto away with his men.
Battles of St. John Commandery
Battles of St. John Commandery
pond and St. John. Charles the Bold was killed by Claude Bauzemont.
Some of the allies to which enclosed the garrison of Nancy trying to catch
fugitives trying to escape through the bridge Bouxières aux Dames
but condottiere Cola Monteforte ahead.
The Battle of Nancy, Jan. 5, 1477. Woodcut. Late fifteenth century.
left, Swiss and Lorraine's cavalry charge Lalang.
In the lower right corner we see Claude Bauzemont
complete the Duke of Burgundy.
And just above, the condottiere Jacques de Galeotto fled.
Continued Burgundians, led the allies - joined by the garrison of Nancy Lorraine - until Bridge Bouxières aux Dames, where the Count of Campo Basso had exterminated the last supporters of the Bold. 
left, Swiss and Lorraine's cavalry charge Lalang.
In the lower right corner we see Claude Bauzemont
complete the Duke of Burgundy.
And just above, the condottiere Jacques de Galeotto fled.
Burgundian The fugitives were exterminated by men Campo Basso
the bridge Bouxières aux Dames.
Rene II and his allies made a triumphant entry into Nancy.
By late afternoon, Rene II asked the condottiere if he had not seen the Duke of Burgundy, the answer was negative. The Duke of Lorraine was still entered in his beloved city. But his mind was captured by Charles, where he was, Had he escaped or was he dead? 
The Battle of Nancy
Illumination taken from "History of Lucerne (1511-1513)
written by columnist Diebold Schilling der Jungers (1460-1515) During the
fight, John von Max Eckwersheim captured the Count of Nassau, Jean Bidos, lord of Pont-Saint-Vincent Anthony the Great and William the Bastard Rappolstein Count of Chimay. According to a columnist Swiss, Burgundians 5699 corpses lay in the plain Nancy, a figure presumably including fighters died in the seats Nancy. The small army of Charles lost in any case two thirds of its workforce if it refers to the number of English archers companies returned to their homeland in January and February 1477. This defeat was bitter and costly in men.
The Battle of Nancy
oil painting by Eugene Delacroix - 1831
Museum of Fine Arts in Nancy
The honors went to Bold
Monday 6 January 1477, Rene II obsessed with the Bold went looking for him, interrogated prisoners, sent men to survey the Lorraine and even beyond. The survey remained unsuccessful when evening came the Neapolitan Montforte Cola brought him a young page Roman Baptiste Colonna. The latter told him he was serving the prince as he looked up and saw him collapse at the pond near St. John.
Charles the Bold found after the Battle of Nancy
Oil Augustin Feyen-Perrin - 1865
Museum of Fine Arts in Nancy
The next day, Tuesday 7, Page led the Duke of Lorraine in the Virelay meadow near the pond where Saint John he presented his master, lying among other bodies. He was naked, stripped of his finery, his head covered in ice, one cheek devoured by a wolf and body trampled by horses. The Portuguese Grand Duke physician, was summoned Lopo da Guarda. He made a thorough inspection of his prince, he raised his head was split by an ax, two deep wounds in the lower back and thighs due to pikes; then recognized through six signs: missing teeth in its jaw, a scar on his neck (the result of a spear in the battle of Montlhéry), the trace of a boil on his shoulder, nails short, a big toe on his left foot, an ingrown toenail and the trace of a fistula in right testicle.
The Duke of Lorraine, Rene II before the remains
the Duke of Burgundy, Charles the Bold, January 12, 1477.
Miniature from a manuscript of the fifteenth century.
formally identified the body of Charles was brought into a house, Nancy, at George Mark, his body was washed and dressed in a long embroidered robe and head covered with a red cap. On Saturday, January 11, embalming body was held and the next day, Rene II had celebrated Mass at 6 am in the church of Saint George. Finally, the body of the Bold and that of Jean de Rubempre were buried in the transept.
Remains of the Duke of Burgundy to the college, Nancy.
Woodcut. Late fifteenth century.
To commemorate its success, Rene II built a shrine called Our Lady of Victory or Bonsecours from 1484 of the very ground where the battle took place; Olry Blâmont, the consecrated bishop of Toul in 1498. City Saint-Nicolas-de-Port is also endowed with a magnificent basilica from 1480, a sign of devotion to Rene II who participated financially. *
As stressed Peter Ram in the nineteenth century in his history of chronic Liege at the time of Charles the Bold: " Duke lost his treasure in Grandson, honor and life in Murten Nancy . In Nancy, as Héricourt and Morat, battle was fought along three axes: surprise, panic and slaughter. The numerical superiority of the coalition was right Burgundians.
The Burgundian power ended after more than a century of proud history, January 5, 1477 in Nancy. The Grand Duke died, the attachment of his duchy to the crown of France, theoretically made January 31, 1477, has actually asked a conquest marked in particular by the popular uprisings of Dijon (1477), Beaune and Auxois (1478 ).
Memorial of the Battle of Nancy
Duke René II of Lorraine is figured
waving the cross of Lorraine
Work of Victor Proven - 1928
Nancy - Place de la Croix de Bourgogne
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Historical Sources:
BLARRU Stone, The War Nancéide or Nancy, translation of F. Schütz, 1840.
BLARRU Stone, The Nancéide, a poem dedicated to the victory in front of Nancy by René II of Lorraine dcu on the Duke of Burgundy, Charles the Bold, January 5, 1477, translated by John Boes - (Collection "Etudes old 32 ") - Editions De Boccard - 2006
Different chronic
Bibliography Selective
The Battle of Nancy, 1477-1977 exhibition catalog, Museum History Lorrain.
Five hundredth centenary of the Battle of Nancy 1477, Conference Proceedings, 1977, University of Nancy II.
FREDERIX, Death of Charles the Bold, Gallimard, 1971.
PFISTER, History of Nancy, Paris 1902-1909.
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You can read the woodcuts of Nanceide here:
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Web Links:
On wikipedia:
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bataille_de_Nancy
About Company
medieval re-enactment "Massena Saint-Michel 1473" Saint-Mihiel
http://www.massenie-de-saint-michel.com
Copyright - Olivier PETIT - 2011
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