Chapter 8 / 11 · 1477

Nancy: the project breaks apart

Burgundy: the kingdom that never was

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Charles dies at the Battle of Nancy without a male heir. Louis XI occupies the Duchy of Burgundy and other French territories. Mary, Charles’s only daughter, must defend the rest of her father’s inheritance.

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Carlos I de Borgoña

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Mary of Burgundy

Only daughter and heir of Charles the Bold. After her father’s death in 1477, she defended a disputed inheritance. Her marriage to Maximilian of Habsburg linked much of the Burgundian Netherlands to the Habsburg dynasty.

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Luis XI de Francia

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