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What happened to Charles the Bold at the Battle of Nancy in 1477?
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At the Battle of Nancy on January 5, 1477, Charles the Bold, the Duke of Burgundy, was defeated by a coalition of forces including the Swiss, the Rhenish cities, and René II of Lorraine, which had been subsidized by Louis XI of France.123
During this engagement, Charles the Bold was killed. His mutilated body was discovered some days after the battle. This decisive defeat effectively ended Charles's ambitions to establish an independent kingdom and allowed Louis XI to begin dismantling the Burgundian state to reunite its French fiefs with the royal domain.123