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This is a timeline I am working on, taken from the book Charles the Bold, by Richard Vaughan1, it is not yet complete but I will update it as I work on it more. The format is as follows; the date expressed as year – month – day, then a description of the event, sometimes copied verbatim, sometimes abridged, with the page number at the end of the description. I apologise for any spelling mistakes or errors in transcription. - Joram van Essen, November 2003.
CdO members: I have highlighted some of the important events you should know about, General Knowledge, Anecdotes of Personal Life, Large Musters for the Burgundian Army, Important Aspects of the Conflict with Liége, Important Apects of the Conflicts with France, The Conflict with Guelders.
1Vaughan,
Richard. Charles the Bold.
The Boydell Press. 2002.
| 1450-??-?? | Guelders split by quarrels between Duke Arnold of Egmond and his son Adolf, Philip the Good favoured Adolf, who drew much of his support from the towns. 112 |
| 1451-??-?? | Thibaud IX de Neuchatel, marshal of Burgundy, tried to seize the town of Lunéville, in Lorraine, by smuggling into it some troops disguised as pilgrims. 101 |
| 1456-??-?? | Charles the Bold's first cousin Louis de Bourbon appointed Bishop of Liége. 11 |
| 1457-02-13 | Mary of Burgundy was born. 126 |
| 1459-??-?? | Flimsy settlement made between Arnold of Egmond duke of Guelders and his son Adolf of Egmond, whereby Adolf of Egmond was to rule as duke of Guelders in Nijmegen and certain other parts of the duchy. 112 |
| 1460-??-?? | With Philip the Goods assistance, Thibaud IX de Neuchatel's twelve year old son Anthoine was promoted to the espiscopal throne of Toul, while his father was appointed administrator of the Bishopric, which lay between the duchies of Bar and Lorraine and included some important castles. 101 |
| 1461-??-?? | Quarrel between Adolf of Egmond and his father Arnold of Egmond duke of Guelders break out again. 113 |
| 1461-??-?? | Charles the Bold arranges for Adolf of Egmonds election into the order of the Golden Fleece. 113 |
| 1463-??-?? | Louis XI of France gave Épinal to Thibaud IX de Neuchatel, but ownership was disputed by the bishop of Metz, and its inhabitants refused to accept Thibaud de Neuchatel as their lord and placed themselves instead under the protection of the duke of Lorraine. 101 |
| 1463-??-?? | State of near civil war existed in Guelders between Adolf of Egmond and the towns on one side and Arnold of Egmond duke of Guelders and the nobles on the other. 112 |
| 1463-??-?? | Frederick III earned his surname the Victorius when he contrived to capture three of his rivals all at once on the field of battle; Ulrich of Wurttemberg, Karl of Baden and Bishop George of Metz. 132 |
| 1464-??-?? | Most of East Friesland became an imperial county, under Ulrich I and his wife Theda, and was ruled subsequently for 300 years under the house of Cirksena. 107 |
| 1465-??-?? | Open revolt against the unpopular bishop Louis de Bourbon, led by Raes de Lyntre, lord of Heers, had been combined with a declaration of war against Duke Philip the Good, which the Liégeois had been encouraged to make by King Louis XI of France. 11 |
| 1465-01-10 | In the dead of night, Adolf carried out a treacherous and violent coup de main against his father Arnold of Egmond duke of Guelders. Duke Arnold who had retired early after a dinner to celebrate the reconciliation of himself and his son Adolf, was called out of bed in the castle Grave, arrested, and taken off across the frozen River Maas 'in the fearful cold of the night dressed only in a fur-lined tunic and a tabard, without stockings, and with a wimple and nightcap on his head just as he had on in bed, as far as the castle of Lobith'. 113 |
| 1465-09-25 | Charles the Bolds second wife, Isabel of Bourbon died. 45 |
| 1465-11-?? | Charles the Bold sends Guillaume de Clugny to England to request the hand of Margaret of York, sister of Edward IV, in marriage. 45 |
| 1465-12-22 | Peace of St. Trond, which Philip the Good and his son Charles the Bold dictated to Liege. 11 |
| 1465-12-29 | Charles the Bold and Frederick III sign a treaty for military aid. 132 |
| 1466-??-?? | Willem van Egmond and John duke of Cleves, champion Arnold of Egmonds cause. Adolf of Egmond was supported by Ruprecht, archbishop of Cologne, and the intervention between the two turned a civil war into a war between Guelders and Cleves between the year 1466-1469. 113 |
| 1466-03-?? | King Edward IV responded to Charles request to marry Margaret of York, by sending the earl of Warick to negotiate the marriage. 45 |
| 1466-09-10 | Peace of Oleye, which Philip the Good and his son Charles the Bold dictated to Liege, after Charles the Bold destroyed her sister city Dinant. 11 |
| 1466-09-12 | Philip the Goods three deputies took possession of the guardianship of Liége. 15 |
| 1466-10-?? | King Edward IV issued safe conduct to Anthony, bastard of Burgundy, to visit England, for the purpose of accepting a challenge to joust with Anthony Woodville, Lord Scales, the queen of England's brother. 45 |
| 1466-10-?? | Edward IV king of England signed a treaty of friendship with Charles the Bold. 46 |
| 1467-??-?? | Thibaud IX de Neuchatel determined to make good his rights and attacked Épinal, and soon a state of war existed between the houses of Neuchatel and Anjou. 101 |
| 1467-02-?? | Louis XI of France protested against Charles the Bold's ambassador's assertion that he, Louis XI, was planning a combined Anglo-French move against Burgundy. 44 |
| 1467-02-?? | Charles the Bold entertained the elector palatine at an elaborate state banquet at Ghent and took him on a tour of Flanders. 44 |
| 1467-02-?? | Bishop George von Baden of Metz was given a horse by Charles the Bold when he visited him in Brussels and who was thereafter promised an annual pension of 1,200 pounds and made a 'domestic' councillor for Charles the Bold. 105 |
| 1467-03-?? | Charles the Bold arrests some of Louis XI's ambassadors at Bouvignes, as he thought they were making trouble in Liége. 12 |
| 1467-03-?? | Chalres the Bolds ambassadors went to Utrecht and negotiated an alliance with King Christian I of Denmark, which also included Lois XI brother, Charles of France, Yolande of France, duchess of Savoy, Louis XI's sister. 44 |
| 1467-04-?? | The citizens of Amiens received letters from both King Louis XI of France and Duke Chalres the Bold of Burgundy, each assuring them of his pacific intentions and accusing the other of preparing armed aggression. 43 |
| 1467-04-18 | The Milanese ambassadors at Blois were able to report in detail on a project for the partition of Burgundy which Louis XI hoped he was in the process of arranging with king Edward IV through the good offices of Richard Neville, earl of Warwick, who was to meet Louis XI at Rouen before 8 May next to determine details. 44 |
| 1467-04-24 | Louis XI of France tries to mediate between Liége and the bishop, that might serve to extend French influence over Liége. 12 |
| 1467-05-?? | Guillaume Bische, was said to have had 'my lord of Charolais (Charles the Bold) on a string; he controlled everything'. 4 |
| 1467-05-?? | Charles the Bold was reported to be 'trying with the help of the count of palatine of the Rhine and other German princes… to become vicar of the Empire'. 42 |
| 1467-05-?? | Sir John Paston made a famous wager with a London mercer: he would pay 80 shillings for the horse he was buying if Margaret of York married Charles the Bold within two years, but only 40 shillings if not. 46 |
| 1467-05-09 | A month before he became duke of Burgundy, Charles the Bold was said by Louis XI to be trying, with the Help of Frederick III the Victorious, to become vicar of the Empire. 126 |
| 1467-06-?? | Officials at Dijon found it necessary to send to Auxerre to urge that town to remain loyal to Burgundy and to assemble the three Estates of the duchy of Burgundy to discuss defence. 42 |
| 1467-06-?? | When Charles the Bold became duke of Burgundy, he was faced with a request from his marshal, Thibaud de Neuchatel, for a loan of some men-at-arms to help him in his private war with Lorraine, just when Charles the Bold was ordering his marshal to muster troops for his war against Liége. Apparently Thibaud found it possible to make use of the ducal forces to his personal advantage in Lorraine, while he was on his way with them to Liége. 101 |
| 1467-06-14 | The chancellor and council of Brabant circulated letters from Charles the Bold, reporting that extremist elements in Liége - members of the so called Company of the Green Tent - planned to attack and seize the town of Huy, Louis de Bourbon's headquarters. 12 |
| 1467-06-15 | Four twenty four hours after his death in the ducal palace at Bruges in the evening of Monday 15 June 1467, the body of the old duke, Philip the Good, lay on his bed in state for all to see, a black cap placed on the head. On the Tuesday evening the work of embalming was carried out. The new duke, Charles the Bold had galloped from Ghent to his fathers deathbed as soon as he had heard of his fathers illness. 1 |
| 1467-06-21 | On Sunday 21 June, four bishops and twenty-two notable abbots were mustered to accompany Philip the Good's bier in full pontificals from the ducal palace to the church of St. Donation. Held back on either side by hundreds of torch-bearers in black, a crowd of 20,000 people lined the streets along which the cortége passed. These people, inhabitants of Bruges and visitors from elsewhere, were expected to turn out in black at their own expense and keep absolutely still while the procession passed. 1 |
| 1467-06-24 | A mounted messenger was sent to inforn the new duke Charles the Bold that French troops were gathering in various places, apparently with a view to invading "the land of Burgundy". 43 |
| 1467-06-28 | Duke Charles accompanied by large numbers of his courtiers, all dressed in black, made his solemn entry into Ghent on a Sunday morning. The duke went through the usual inauguration ceremony as count of Flanders in the church of S. John and was formally welcomed by the assembled magistrates and people in the market place. 6 |
| 1467-06-29 | A crowd assembled in arms in the Fridaymarket yelling "Down with the quellote(an unpopular local tax)!" Charles the bold goes to Harnangue the mob, but things just get worse. 6 |
| 1467-07-?? | Raes de Lyntre's military preperations included the manufacture of a huge bombard called Liégeois which he caused to be fired outsideeach of the churches in Liége, beggining with St. Lambert's. But the next day it blew up. 14 |
| 1467-07-01 | Charles the Bold and his daughter Mary and the chests containing the treasure amassed by his father, which he had brought with him from Bruges, just manges to escape from Ghent. 6 |
| 1467-07-02 | Charles the Bold writes to Louis XI of France to appologise for being delayed for a meeting between them, due to settling a commotion between the commons and those governing in Ghent. 6 |
| 1467-07-03 | Charles the Bold's solemn entry into Malines, sometime after this a rebellion breaks out in Malinesaimed as much towards the ruling class of the town as at Charles the Bold. 10 |
| 1467-07-10 | Charles the Bolds military preperations for Liége had probably already begun, when couriers had been sent to the grand bailiff of Hainault, Jehan de rumpré, lord of Biévres, to Louis, lord of Gruuthuse and to other noblemen and captains, ordering them to muster troops. 15 |
| 1467-07-20 | Charles the Bold signs a treaty with Philip of Savoy. 45 |
| 1467-07-23 | Liége citizens acting on behalf of Jehan, count of Never's, take formal possession of certain domains, near Liége, dependencies of the duchy of Brabant. 14 |
| 1467-07-25 | Milanese ambassador to the French court reported that the Liégeois had made difficulties in paying the indemnity they owed to Charles the Bold and had even attacked a place in the duchy of Brabant. 14 |
| 1467-07-28 | Loys dÉscronaix, who replaced the unpopular ducal bailiff, Clais Triest, in Ghent finally managed to restore control of the town, with the help of important concessions by Charles the bold on 28 July, who issued documents restoring the banners to the craft guilds, allowing the gates closed by the treaty of Gavere to be reopened, and formally forgiving the citizens of their misdeeds. 7 |
| 1467-07-29 | Louis de Bourbon empowered Charles the Bold to arbitrate all the differences between himself and his subjects, the people of the principality and city of Liége. 15 |
| 1467-07-31 | the Bailiffs of Flanders were ordered to have their Flemish forces ready. 15 |
| 1467-08-?? | Charles the Bold was prepairing to intervene militarily against Liége. 11 |
| 1467-08-03 | Charles the Bold responds to the provocation of the Liégeois, by confiscating the hotel de Nevers at Brussels. 14 |
| 1467-08-08 | The hotel de Nevers that was confiscated by Charles the Bold was ceded to his councillor Philippe Pot. 14 |
| 1467-08-11 | A series of executions at Liége, culminate in the torture and decapitation of the ex-burgomaster of Dinant, Jehan Carpentier. 15 |
| 1467-08-12 | More definite plans had emerged, the grand bailiff of Hainault and other Hainault nobles were ordered to be at Binche on 20 August ready to serve against the Liégeois. 16 |
| 1467-08-18 | The men of Visé set off to ransack the village of Berneau in Charles the Bold's duchy of Limbourg, when the Limbourgers retaliated, Raes de Lyntre led a raiding party of Liégeois into Limbourgand thereafter acts of violence proliferated until a state of open warfare developed early in September. 15 |
| 1467-08-21 | A messenger left Brussels with orders for these Hainault troops to wear different colours from the others. 16 |
| 1467-08-28 | Charles the Bolds procurear général started criminal proceedings against the conspirators behind the revolt of Malines, and Charles the Bold returns there on 28 August and stays there for several days. 10 |
| 1467-09-05 | There was trouble over a toll before Charles the Bold could make his solemn entry into Antwerp. 9 |
| 1467-09-13 | Charles the bold sends last minute reinforcemnets to Huy, which was under the control of Louis de Bourbon. 15 |
| 1467-09-13 | the Hainault troops recieve orders to move to Huy. 16 |
| 1467-09-14 | Sometime before the fall of Huy on the 14 September, Charles the Bold had decided on a mass attack against Liége, to be launched on 8 October. Requests or summonses for military assistance went out in all directions. 16 |
| 1467-09-16 | Huy was surprised by Raes de Lyntre and his associates during the night. Louis de Bourbon fled to Namur, Evrard de la Marck, lord of Aremberg, organised a valiant but fruitless resistance to the assailants. 15 |
| 1467-09-20 | Edward IV appointed the bishop of Salisbury and other ambasadors to negotiate the details. 46 |
| 1467-09-28 | Edward IV annulls the statutes of 1463 and 1464 prohibiting the import into England from the duke of Burgundy's lands in the Low Countries of all manufactured products. 46 |
| 1467-10-?? | Louis XI asked Charles the Bold for a truce, which he agreed to sign for 6 months, beginning on 1 November. 47 |
| 1467-10-01 | John, duke of Alencon signed treaties with Charles of France and the duke of Brittan, as well as Charles the Bold. 45 |
| 1467-10-01 | Margret of York gave her public consent to the marriage with Charles the bold. 46 |
| 1467-10-03 | Saturday, a contingent of two vassals and two varlets set out 'in good fettle' from Metz. 17 |
| 1467-10-16 | Charles the Bold sentances the conspirators behind the revolt of Malines. 10 |
| 1467-10-19 | Charles the Bold set out from Louvain to take the field against Liége on 19 October 1467 to a fanfare of twelve trumpets. Ducal accounts list the principal noblemen and captains and record payments to them on the basis of 9.830 units or payes, while an eyewitness's letter states that Charles the Bold had 2,350 lances, not counting archers. The bulk of the army consisted of the dukes courtiers and their followings and the nobility of the Low Countries and their men. The largest contingent was that of Anthony, bastard of Burgundy, with 1353 payes, the second largest contingent was lead by Adolf of Cleves, lord of Ravenstein. 17 |
| 1467-10-19 | At Tirlemont in Brabant Charles the Bold made his final dispositions for the campaign. 18 |
| 1467-10-20 | On Tuesday Charles the Bold sent a force to try and take Huy by surprise. 18 |
| 1467-10-22 | The wife of Raes de Lyntre helped to defend Huy. 21 |
| 1467-10-22 | The departure of the Liégeois was delayed by a downpour and one of the leaders horses being killed. 21 |
| 1467-10-23 | In the afternoon, the citizen army of Liége, left the town after the traditional peals had been rung on the church bells. 21 |
| 1467-10-27 | Tuesday the Army of Charles the Bold arrives at St. Trond to begin the siege. 22 |
| 1467-10-28 | Wednesday the citizen army which left Liége on the 23rd is discovered advancing only distantly towards the Burgundian army, and the van of the Liége citizen army forms up defensive positions around Brustem, only 35km from Liége. 22 |
| 1467-10-28 | Charles arranges his men outside Brustum ready for battle, in the afternoon, and the attack followed, which Charles the Bolds army wone. However nightfall saved the lives of many Liégeois, but their tents and pavilions, their carts and baggage, and their artillery, all fell into the hands of the Burgundians.. 22 |
| 1467-11-01 | Troops from the Burgundian van left the siege of St. Trond to adavance towards Liége. 23 |
| 1467-11-02 | St. Trond surrendered to Charles the Bold. The van advancing again towards Lége burnt down the castle and town of Heers belonging to Raes de Lyntre, and took Looz without opposition. 23 |
| 1467-11-06 | Tongres surrendered to Charles the Bold. 23 |
| 1467-11-09 | Charles the Bold lodged at Othée, scene of his grandfathers victory against Liége in 1408. 23 |
| 1467-11-10 | Charles the Bold, angered by the assistance the town of Aachen gave Liége, threatened to attack the town, and the terrified civic authorities brought him the keys of their city and abject apologies, while he was in Maastricht 10-12 November. 38 |
| 1467-11-11 | Burgundians took up quarters in the outskirts of Liége. 23 |
| 1467-11-12 | Ducal banners were symbolicly raised above the gates of the conquered Liége. 23 |
| 1467-11-13 | Destruction of the gates and walls of Liége began. 23 |
| 1467-11-14 | Olivier de la Marche reports that while Charles the Bold was at Polleur on 14 to 17 November, ravaging the land of Franchimont, he and his men receieved a welcome gift of four queues of wine from Aachen. 38 |
| 1467-11-17 | Charles the bold and his army made their triumphal entry into Liége, after a civic deputaion numbering 340 persons had been forced to grovel before him in their shirts and socks. 23 |
| 1467-11-24 | Charles the Bold asked the Dukes of Guelders and Cleves and the Archbishop of Cologne to protect the trade on the river Rhine. 125 |
| 1467-11-25 | Charles the Bold ordered the mobilisation of troops at St. Quentin on 16 December. Although this military summons was subsequently deffered until 16 January 1468. 47 |
| 1467-11-28 | Charles the Bold dictates the peace settlement to Liége. 24 |
| 1467-12-?? | Cologne accused by Charles the Bold of harbouring refugees from Liége. 37 |
| 1468-??-?? | Charles the Bold sent a spy to Frisia to report in detail on the topography and general situation there as part of a possible military campaign. 107 |
| 1468-01-04 | Charles the Bold sends a report to Cologne from Brussels by the provost of St. Andrew's, Cologne. Charles the Bold was resolutly determined to respond to the call for assistance he had recieved from the dukes of Berry and Brittany by taking the field against Louis XI in person. 47 |
| 1468-04-?? | Abortive peace process at Cambrai between Charles the Bold and Louis XI. 47 |
| 1468-04-30 | Onofrio de Santa Croce, bishop of Tricarico left Rome in February 1468 and arrived at Liége 30 April, was grieted with popular rejoicing. 25 |
| 1468-05-?? | The confréres of the Golden Fleece held their annual chapter at Bruges. Thibaut IX Neuchatel was accused of undertaking a war against my lord of Calabria and the Lorrainers without the leave and agreement of my lord the duke, sovereign [of the order], and without informing Messieurs of the Order. 103 |
| 1468-05-?? | The situation in Guelders between Adolf and John duke of Cleves was discussed at length at the chapter of the Order of the Golden Fleece held at Bruges. 114 |
| 1468-05-17 | King Edward IV's chancellor had announced to the English Parliament the imminent marriage of the king's sister Margaret of York to the Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy. 47 |
| 1468-06-08 | Onofrio de Santa Croce, set out to see Charles the Bold at Bruges. 25 |
| 1468-06-25 | Margaret of York arrived at Sluis on the Saturday. Every night she was there, there were fireworks in Sluis. 50 |
| 1468-07-?? | French and Burgundian armies were mustering against one another along the frontier in Picardy. 47 |
| 1468-07-?? | First Ordinance issued. 205 |
| 1468-07-03 | The wedding of Charles the Bold and Margaret of York was held in the Church of Notre-Dame at Damme, near Bruges, accompanied by the most splendid and extravagant festivities ever contrived in the entire annals of Burgundy, and followed by an eleborate tournament. 48 |
| 1468-07-08 | Charles the Bold embarked from Sluis for Zeeland and Holland, to make his solemn entry into Middelburg, the Hague and elsewhere, and he spent a fortnight there before returing to Brussels. 53 |
| 1468-07-18 | Jehan , lord of and Louvignies wrote about the wedding of Charles the Bold and Margret of York 'I begin to write this present chapter on a Monday, 18 July 1468, in my house at Louvignies near Bavay, at the age of forty-four years and nine months, or thereabouts'. 50 |
| 1468-08-04 | Several hundred outlaws from Liége tried but failed, to seize Bouillon. 28 |
| 1468-08-08 | Charles the Bold ordered the general mobilization of all his vassals, for a war with France. 28 |
| 1468-08-10 | Charles the Bold set out from Brussels fully determined to attack the French. 28 |
| 1468-08-10 | Charles the Bold set out for his campaign against the French. 53 |
| 1468-08-22 | Charles the Bold writes to the authorities at Abbeville forbiding them to proceed with the annual renewal of the loi on St. Bartholomew's day. 39 |
| 1468-08-27 | Treaty of Waldshut by an unwilling Duke Sigmund of Tirol, cousin of Emperor Frederick III Habsburg, and by Bern. Sigmund had to guarantee the future safety, against the depredations of the local "Austrian" nobility of Schaffhausen and Mulhouse, and to pay 10,000 Rhenish Florins before 24 June 1469. 85 |
| 1468-09-09 | The outlaws from Liége returned with shouts of 'Long live the king and a free Liége' and masacard those of their opponents who failed to escape in time The new revolutionary leaders at Liége belonged to the lesser nobilityof the local countryside. The most prominent were Gossuin de Streel, whose father had been killed in 1467 at Brustem. Jehan de Hores, called de Wilde and Vincent de Buren. 28 |
| 1468-09-17 | Charles the Bold appointed Guy de Brimeu to a new office: that of lieutenant and captain-general with orders to assemble forces in Brabant, Limbourg, Luxembourg, Hainault, Namur and elsewhere and march against Liége. 28 |
| 1468-10-01 | Guy de Brimeu was reported already with his forces on the borders of the principality, at Meeffe. 29 |
| 1468-10-01 | Conference of Ham resulted in a truce between Charles the Bold and Louis XI of France. 29 |
| 1468-10-06 | Cardinal Balue arrived at Péronne with offers from Louis XI of a firm alliance between Burgundy and the French crown. 29 |
| 1468-10-06 | Charles the Bold sent a messenger from Péronne, to the Burgundian army with orders to attack Liége at once. These were the forces from Burgundy and Savoy, commanded by the Marshal of Burgundy, Thibaud de Neuchatel, and Philip of Savoy, count of Bresse, which were then at Namur and in Hainault on their way to join Charles the Bold. 29 |
| 1468-10-09 | Guy de Brimeu had reached Tongres with his men. That night Jehan de Wilde and Gossuin de Streel led a picked band of men into Tongres, and not only captured the town bu also Guy de Brimeu himself. 29 |
| 1468-10-09 | King Louis XI himself went to see Charles the Bold, in the hopes of a permanent settlement. 29 |
| 1468-10-12 | The Forces of Thibaud de Neuchatel recaptured Tongres without any difficulty. 30 |
| 1468-10-22 | The first counterattack by the Liégeois was fought at Lantin, while Charles the Bold was still at Namur. They were easily defeated. 31 |
| 1468-10-25 | Castle of Fallais, Guy de Brimeu, Lord of Humbercourt afterwards related to the chronicler Adrian dÓudenbosch, the king ate at one table, the duke of Burgundy sat at another, and the bishop of Liége, who had only that day finally escaped from danger, ate at a third with his three brothers the archbishop of Lyons, Chalres de Bourbon, the duke of Bourbon, John II and Pierre, lord Beaujeu. Nor should it be forgotten that one of Charles's principal captains at this time, Jehan de Chalon, lord of Arguel, had been married the year before to Jeanne de Bourbon, sister of the above mentioned brothers. She too was present at Fallais on 25 October. 31 |
| 1468-10-26 | The Burgundian army took up quarters in the suburbs of Liége, while Charles the Bold and Louis XI of France were only at Momalle, 17km away. Late that evening the Liégeois sallied forth and captured two Burgundian banners during a three hour skirmish. 31 |
| 1468-10-27 | At 4.0 a,m, Jehan de Wilde and his men delivered another fierce attack on the Burgundianslodged outside the city, in the event Guy de Brimeu and others were wounded, the Liégeois were driven off with heavy casualties. Their leader, Jehan de Wilde, crawled back into the city mortally wounded. 31 |
| 1468-10-27 | Charles the Bold and King Louis XI of France arrived at Liége. 31 |
| 1468-10-29 | Bad weather on the Saturday, caused the planned general assault on Liége to be deferred. 31 |
| 1468-10-29 | That night Gossuin de Steele led out a body of picked men, to make a last desperate attack on the Burgundians. Their aim was apparently to penetrate silently and undetected to the lodgingsof the king and duke and kill or capture them both. But the alam was given as the attackers entered the kitchen of the house where Duke Charles was quartered by a group of women camp-followers who recognised the Liége accent of one of their number, and a confused struggle ensued in which the majority including their leader were killed. 32 |
| 1468-10-30 | The assault on Liége took place on the morning of Sunday, 30 October 1468. 32 |
| 1468-11-03 | A messenger was sent to Tirelmont and Maastricht asking for all available carpenters and workmen to be sent to be sent to demolish the houses nearest the churches of Liége to stop the churches from being burnt when Charles the bold set fire to the city. 35 |
| 1468-11-05 | The sack of Liége sent a chill of fear through the towns of Europe. On 5 November the secretary of the Hansards at bruges wrote to the burgomaster of Lubeck describing the Burgundian atrocities in Liége and urging solidarity among all towns. 37 |
| 1468-11-09 | Charles the Bold left Liege for Maastricht. 36 |
| 1468-11-20 | A savage but brief campaign was mounted in mid-November to invade and lay wast the Land of Franchimont, where the refugees from Liége had fled and where they were said to be prepairing to defend themselves. 36 |
| 1469-01-?? | Jehan Louis de Savoie, bishop of Geneva, was noted by an Italian observer during his return through Lyons with several cartloads of loot from Liége. 34 |
| 1469-01-02 | The City and Guild authorities of Ghent had been persuaded to make a general submission to Chalres the Bold, renouncing in it their banners, the opening of their gates and indeed all their priveleges. 7 |
| 1469-01-15 | The formal renounciation of the priveleges of Ghent is carried out in Brussels. 7 |
| 1469-03-21 | Sigmund of Tirol arrived at Arras to confer there with Charles the Bold, for offering part of the Vorlande in return for finance, which Charles the Bold agreed, after weeks of hard bargaining, to the treaty of St. Omer on 9 May 1469. Essentially being a mortgage of the landgraviate of Alsace, the county of Ferrette and the four Rhine towns with their appurtenances, to Charles the Bold, which Sigmund had the right to redeem at any time. 86 |
| 1469-04-?? | The Hated quellote tax was restored in Ghent. 9 |
| 1469-04-?? | Cologne was again under suspicion by Charles the Bold, of harbouring refugees from Liége during the winter of 1468-69, they send a grovelling letter in April 1469 appologising and promosing to see that this did not happen again. 37 |
| 1469-05-09 | Treaty of St. Omer between Alsace and Burgundy. 85 |
| 1469-06-?? | Charles the Bold maintains neutrality at the protracted but abortive peace conference in Ghent between Thibaud IX Neuchatel and the Lorrainers. 103 |
| 1469-06-20 | A treaty between Aachen and Charles the Bold, was signed in which the city placed itself under Charles the Bolds protection and safeguard and agreed to pay him 200 Rhenish florins per annum in lieu of its obligation to providearchers for certain Limbourg garrisons. 38 |
| 1469-06-21 | Commissioners entertained to supper by Sigmund of Tirol, at Thann, county of Ferrette. However it was not up to Burgundian standards. 89 |
| 1469-06-25 | Civic authorities at Bern sent a letter to Rudolf of Hochberg on Mulhouse's (a city) behalf, complaining in the strongest possible terms of the provocations and deeds of violence of the local nobles, lateely Austrian, but now Burgundian, vassals. 95 |
| 1469-06-28 | Commissioners sent out by Charles the Bold to take over the new territory included in the treaty of St. Omer. These commis, who included Peter von Hagenbach, Rudolf margrave of Hochberg, and two Franche-Comté officials, Jehan Carondelet and Jehan Poinsot, they began their tour on 28 June 1469 at Rheinfelden and completed it at Ensisheim on 7 July 1469 with a grand assembly of the Estates of all the lands mortgaged to Charles the Bold. 89 |
| 1469-07-02 | King George Podiebrad of Bohemia, who was fighting for his throne, his Hussite faith and even his life against the King of Hungary, the Emperor, the pope, and almost everyone else, sent an emvassy to Charlels the Bold seeking an alliance and Burgundian diplomatic aid. The existence of a treaty drawn up in draft shows that Charles was interested: in return for his election as king of the Romans, which King George thought could be contrived without difficulty by bribing some of his fellow-electors and pursuiding others that a strong king was essential to defend the Empire against the Turks, Charles would reconcile George with the pope and pay him 200,000 Rhenish florins. 129 |
| 1469-07-07 | Commisioners complete their mission started on 28 June 1469. 89 |
| 1469-07-11 | Charles the Bold issued a formal mediatory Judgement at Ghent, in the presence of both Adolf of Egmond duke of Guelders and John duke of Cleves. 115 |
| 1469-07-17 | Sigmond of Tirol finally handed Breisach over to the Burgundian commissioners. 89 |
| 1469-07-20 | Charles the Bold granted John duke of Cleves an annual pension of 6,000 francs. 115 |
| 1469-08-22 | Johanne Ludovico, marquis of Palavicini, informed the duke of Milan that the Venetians were hoping that the imperial princes and powers would elect Charles the Bold 'vice-Emperor, vicar or coadjutor' and would encourage him to organise an expedition into Italy; he advised Galeazzo to make an alliance with the duke of Burgundy. 130 |
| 1469-09-20 | Peter von Hagenbach was made bailiff by Charles the Bold, of Ferrette and Alsace. 89 |
| 1469-09-29 | Charles the Bold takes Willem van Egmond and all his possessions under his protection. 115 |
| 1469-10-?? | Sforza de'Bettini reported from the French court to the duke of Milan that Charles the Bold had offered Mary in marriage to Duke Francis II of Brittany, whose wife had died a few months before. 128 |
| 1469-10-02 | Charles the Bold writes a letter trying to persuade the Frisians of the Advantages of accepting Burgundian rule. 109 |
| 1469-10-12 | A ducal herald arrived in Arnhem to fix the arms of Charles the Bold over the gates of the palace of Egmond there, to signify his protection of Willem van Egmond. 115 |
| 1469-10-26 | Charles the Bold wrote to the rulers of Guelders, Cleves and Julich and the civic authorities of Cologne complaining of the exorbitant tolls being levied on wine shipments, which had caused the merchants to transfer the wine to wagons and transport it by land instead. 125 |
| 1469-11-?? | Yolanda of Anjou and René, count of vaudémont visited Charles the Bold in Brussels, and there is no evedince that they are hotile to Burgundy at this time. 104 |
| 1470-??-?? | John duke of Lorraine dies, the New duke, Nicolas was subbsequently easily enticed into a close alliance with Charles the Bold by the offer of Mary of Burgundy in marriage. 103 |
| 1470-??-?? | Thibaud IX de Neuchatel dies Henry becomes the next lord of Neuchatel, and makles peace with Lorraine. 103 |
| 1470-01-15 | Charles the Bold writes a letter to Sigmund of Tirol, from Hesdin. In regard to Frederick III lack of enthusiasm for Charles the Bolds coronation as the King of the Romans. 132 |
| 1470-01-21 | Italian correspondent, "scarcely a day passes during which he (charles the bold) does not spend an hour or two alone writing and drawing up his ordinances'. 198 |
| 1470-02-?? | Remaining 40,000 Florins Charles the Bold was to Lend Sigmund of Tirol in return for the mortgage on the lands in Alsace, were paid, only a few months late. 93 |
| 1470-03-15 | On the origin, victory and triumph of the lord Charles, present duke of Burgundy. This part-prose part-verse treatise, abounding in almost ridiculously fulsome praise of Charles the Bold, who is represented as a new Alexander the Great and compared repeatedly to Charlemagne, was formally presente by the author to the city council of Cologne. 131 |
| 1470-04-18 | Charles the Bold lent his firm support to Anthoine de Neuchatel when the cannons of Toulendeavoured to replce him, as their bishop, by a secretary of the duke of Lorraine. 103 |
| 1470-05-?? | Peter von Hagenbach made a series of propositions to the city of Mulhouse, to accept Burgundian Rule, which Mulhouse rejected. 95 |
| 1470-05-?? | Negotiations between Friesland and Charles the Bold which had ben delayed since october the previous year, were taken up at Enkhuizen, While David of Burgundy, bishop of Utrecht, claimed that Gronigen was part of the sticht of Utrecht and not Friesland, but the affair dragged on indecisively. 110 |
| 1470-07-09 | Charles the Bold drew up all the rejected terms from the negotiations with Frisia into a formal Latin document and issued it as if the Frisians had approved it, then prepaired for war with Frisia. 110 |
| 1470-08-28 | Charels the Bold writes a letter to Peter von Hagenbach ordering him to undertake the siege and conquest of Ortenberg castle. 99 |
| 1470-09-?? | Pope Paul II urges Adolf to release his father Arnold of Egmond. 115 |
| 1470-09-04 | Charles the Bold ordered his officers to take possession of abbot Lure's silver mines in the southern Vosges of Aslace. 97 |
| 1470-11-?? | Adolf of Egmond was with Charles the Bold at Hesdin in Artois throughout November and December. 115 |
| 1470-11-05 | Charles the Bold formally declared war on Frisia but it never happened, as France attacked Burgundy during the winer of 1470-71 claiming the attention of all of Chalres the Bolds military forces. 111 |
| 1470-12-26 | Charles the Bold writes to Peter von Hagenbach congratulating him on taking Ortenburg, and ordered him to try and take Bergheim. 99 |
| 1470-12-28 | Charles the Bold writes to the city of Nijmegen (supporters of Adolf) denying that he was holding Adolf of Egmond prisoner. 116 |
| 1471-??-?? | Louis XI's brother Charles approached Charles the Bold with a view to his marriage to Mary of Burgundy. Negotiations for this alliance continued nearly until Charles's death on 24 May 1472. 128 |
| 1471-01-?? | A body of Burgundian troops, under Henric van Horne, lord of Perwez, was sent to Guelders and brought Arnold of Egmond back to Hesdin in Artois. 115 |
| 1471-01-?? | King Louis XI attacks Burgundy across the Somme. 211 |
| 1471-01-?? | Charles the Bold was invited by the Emperor to desert his old ally the elector palatine Frederick the Victorious and join his feud against him with a thousand horse. 133 |
| 1471-02-?? | King Louis XI of France, to whom Adolf of Guelders and turned to for help and who was campaigning in Picardy against Charles the Bold at the very time Adolf of Egmond tried to escape, instructed Ambassadors to offer his assistance to Adolf of Egmond. 116 |
| 1471-02-?? | Charles the Bold ordered Peter von Hagenbach to stop Burgundian subjects from joining the count of Veldenz, Ludwig von Zweibrucken's forces, which were invading Frederick the Victorious's territories. 133 |
| 1471-02-10 | Adolf of Egmond was captured while trying to escape by boat from Namur, and was held prisoner by Charles the Bold, first at Vilvorde and subsequently at Courtrai, he remained a prisoner until 1477. 116 |
| 1471-02-20 | Charles the Bold summoned a conference in Cologne for the 20 of Febuary 1471, after sending letters of complaint about the tolls to archbishops of Cologne and Mainz, the bishop of Utrecht, the city of Cologne, the duke of Julich and to the elector palatine of the Rhine, so that his deputies could discuss the lowering of Tarrifs, especially 'Those that people are levying on wines coming from Burgundy'. 125 |
| 1471-03-?? | Charles the Bold sends a Burgundian force to relieve Chatel-sur-Moselle when it was besieged by the Lorrainers. 103 |
| 1471-03-?? | Charles the Bold sent the president of the council of Luxembourg, Girard Vurry, to try and mediate between the two cousins, Frederick the Victorious and Ludwig von Zweibrucken count of Veldenz. 133 |
| 1471-04-04 | Truce signed with France. 211 |
| 1471-04-17 | On a Wednesday some people from Rixheim spat on the bread which Conrad Veiler was hopping to sell there (city of Mulhouse). 96 |
| 1471-05-?? | Ducal officials in Brabant recieved instructions to enrol volunteers to join the new ordinance compagnies, and to send them to Arras for 15 June 1471, however this was subbsequently differed until 1 August 1471. 212 |
| 1471-05-?? | Charles the Bold arranged a conference between his deputies and those of the count of Veldenz, Ludwig von Zweibrucken, with a view to a treaty of alliance, in the event he remained loyal to his ally, Frederick the Victorious, whose support was indeed an unchanging and essential part of the Burgundian political system in Europe throughout Charles the Bold's reign. Needless to say, Frederick the Victorious won his war against Ludwig count of Veldenz. 133 |
| 1471-06-?? | Nijmegen, Arnhem and Zutphen allie against Arnold of Egmond, who was restored as duke of Guelders by Charles the Bold (but only supported by the town Grave), appointing Willem van Zommeren and then in 1472, Vincenz count of Moers, as Adolf of Egmonds lieutenant and governor, and their leader and protector against Burgundian intervention. 116 |
| 1471-06-13 | Charles the Bold issues orders for Jehan Poinst and Jehan Pillet to conduct an enquirey of the duke's rights and revenues in Alsace. 92 |
| 1471-06-13 | Charles the Bold took Ludwig von Landeck into his protection and gave him an annual pension of 200 florins in return for the use of his castles of Landeck and Keppenbach near Emmendingen in the Breisgau, Alsace. 94 |
| 1471-06-13 | Charles the Bold instructs his bailiff (Peter von Hagenbach) to protect his Alsace subjects from the imperial court at Rottweil. 97 |
| 1471-06-24 | Emperor Frederick III discontent with Charles the Bold over his failure to move against the elector palatine Frederick the Victorious coincided with a meeting of the Reichstag or imperial diet which was opened by the emperor in person at Regensburg and afforded ample opportunity for Charles the Bold, through his deputies, to demonstrate his dissatisfaction with the emperor. 134 |
| 1471-06-29 | Charles the Bold orders all those wishing to join his compagnies from the two Burgundies to be at Brussels on 2 August, which was delayed and became a general enrolment on 15 September 1471. 212 |
| 1471-07-31 | Abbeville second surviving ordinance issued. 206 |
| 1471-07-31 | Ordinances finally sent from Abbeville to the authorities at Dijon. 212 |
| 1471-08-01 | Arras, assembly of troops from Brabant Officials, that was supposed to happen on 15 June 1471. 212 |
| 1471-08-31 | Charles the Bold orders all those wishing to join his compagnies to be at Brussels on 15 September. 212 |
| 1471-09-?? | Jehan Poinst and Jehan Pillet conduct the enquirey issued to them by Charles the Bold, they disaproved of a number of Peter von Hagenbach's activities. 92 |
| 1471-09-15 | Brussels, assembly of troops from the two Burgundies to join the compagnie de ordonnance. That was supposed to happen on the 2 August 1471. 212 |
| 1471-09-15 | Charles the Bold sends two of his councillors, Antonio de Lignana and Guillaume de Rochfort, to negotiate with Bartolomeo Colleoni. 214 |
| 1471-09-18 | Peter von Hagenbach assures Charles the Bold that he would 'work to maintain your dignity and lordship and your rights'. 100 |
| 1471-11-?? | Arnold of Egmond duke of Guelders, in order to obtain Burgundian assistance offers Charles the Bold guardianship of Guelders, which he accepted. 117 |
| 1471-11-?? | Marry's future was involved in a projected Franco-Burgundian peace settlement: she was to marry the one-year-old dauphin of France, Charles, later Charles VIII. 128 |
| 1471-12-07 | The 62 year old Arnold of Egmond duke of Guelders, mortgaged Guelders and Zutphen to Charles the Boldfor 300,000 Rhenish Florins. 117 |
| 1472-01-14 | Charles the Bold issues instructions to Jehan de Jaucourt, lord of Villarnoul, to seize possession of 'the county of Nevers and the land of Nivernais'. 84 |
| 1472-01-17 | Charles the Bold writes a letter to dissociate himself with his bailiff's (Peter von Hagenbach) behaviour. As Peter von Hagenbach had a private grudge against the abbot of Lure. 98 |
| 1472-03-?? | Five German princes wrote to Charles the Bold on behalf of the Estates of Guelders, asking him to set Adolf of Egmond free. 117 |
| 1472-05-?? | The Dijon maitre des comptes Mongin Contault was commissioned by Chalres the Bold to conduct another investigation into dukes revenues at Aslace. 92 |
| 1472-05-?? | Nicolas duke of Lorriane signed a treaty of Alliance with Charles the Bold, which gave his troops transite rights in the duchy of Lorriane and the right of entry into its towns and fortified places. |
| 1472-05-24 | Charles, brother of Louis XI dies. 128 |
| 1472-06-12 | A body of Burgundian cavalry, accompanied by a herald, reached Nesle in the evening and a parley ensued, during which the herald was killed by arrows fired from the town. The Burgundian hommes des armes responded by a sudden and determined assault, and the citizensand garison of Nesle were overun. Before Charles the Bold and the rest of the army arrived, the town had been sacked and everyone found bearing arms, including the royal french archers who had taken refuge in the church, had been put to death. 78 |
| 1472-06-13 | Mary of Burgundy, the fifteen-year-old princess was made to send a letter to Nicolas of Anjou (who had become duke of Lorraine) from Mons on 13 June 1472, prommising him her hand in marriage in return for military service to Charles the Bold. 128 |
| 1472-06-27 | the Burgundian army advanced beyond the disputed frontier area of the Somme, deep into French territory. Heading towards Normandy, where they were hoping to join forces with their ally Duke Francise II of Brittany, against who King Louis XI was about to take the field against. They halted en route to lay siege to Beauvais. It was about 7.0 a.m. on Saturday the the Burgundian advance forces arrived outside the town. 79 |
| 1472-08-02 | Bernhart von Ramstein writes from Picardy where he had been sent on a mission, by Peter von Hagenbach, to the duke, he writes that Hagenbach is very much in Charles the bold's favour. 99 |
| 1472-11-?? | The Towns of Guelders, supported by a fair proportion of the nobles and now lead by Vincenz count of Moers remained loyal to Adolf of Egmond. 117 |
| 1472-11-13 | Bohain-en-Vermandois, another ordinance is issued, after the close of the campaign against France, total 8400 troops. 207 |
| 1473-01-?? | The elderly financial official Mongin Contault, conducted his enquiry into Alsace, and found things much the same as the enquiry in september 1471. 92 |
| 1473-01-?? | Peter von Hagenbach again attempting to persuade Mulhouse to accept Burgundian rule. 96 |
| 1473-01-?? | Charles the Bold started moving troops into Guelders. 118 |
| 1473-02-23 | Arnold of Egmond died, three days after he had left the duchy of Guelders to Charles the Bold in his will. 117 |
| 1473-04-30 | Charles the Bolds officers in Hainault were ordered to recruit 300 or at least 200 'of the finest and boldest fellows, expert at warefare'. To be ready fully equiped with a long sword and a long pike each, by 31 May. 118 |
| 1473-05-?? | Charles the Bold successfully opposed Henry Neuchatel candicy for the Golden Fleece, on the grounds that he was more of a Lorrainer than a Burgundian, due to having made peace with them. 104 |
| 1473-05-28 | Charles the Bold gathers his ordinnance compagnies in Maastricht. 118 |
| 1473-06-05 | A deputation from one of the four principle towns of the duchy of Guelders, Roermond, presented their keys, and their formal submission to Charles the Bold, in the Church of Our Lady at Maastricht. 119 |
| 1473-06-09 | Charles the Bold leaves Maastricht and advanced north into the south of Guelders along the Maas. 119 |
| 1473-06-11 | King Louis XI of France tried to persuade Emperor Frederick III to take Guelders into his protection, but failed. 118 |
| 1473-06-21 | Charles the Bold enters Venlo, a large and strong town on the Maas, well garrisoned with men-at-arms, with its well fortified gates, walls and towers, held out for only a few days against Charles the Bolds artillery. 119 |
| 1473-06-28 | Charles the Bolds troops lay siege to Nijmegen, while he pays a fleeting visit to Kleve, the siege lasts for 3 weeks. 119 |
| 1473-07-?? | Olivier de la Marche reported Charles the Bolds intentions of again trying to invade Frisia. 111 |
| 1473-07-16 | Charles the Bold appoints Duke Arnold of Guelres brother, Willem van Egmond, stadholder general of Gueldersand zutphen and he remained in office until replaced by eventually in January 1476 by Philippe de Croy, count of Chimay, who had originally been appointed in November 1474. 121 |
| 1473-07-17 | Nijmegen capitulates to Charles the Bold, but not before she had inflicted considerable casualties on Charles the bolds army and suffered important damage to her walls and gates. 120 |
| 1473-07-24 | Nicolas duke of Lorraine unexpectedly dies at Nancy, throwing open the future succession of the duchy. The claiments, both of them descended from daughters of Duke Charles II of Lorraine, were Yolanda of Anjou and Karl I, margrave of Baden. The intereseted rulers were King Louis XI of France and Charles the Bold. 104 |
| 1473-07-31 | Charles the Bolds army crosses the Rhine to recieve the surrender first, of Zutphen, where he stayed from 4-10 August, and then, of the capitol of Guelders, Arnhem. 120 |
| 1473-08-01 | The nobles of Lorraine assemble at Nancy. |
| 1473-08-02 | Lorraine offered to Yolanda of Anjou, who was at Joinville not far from the Borders of the duchy. She promptly abdicated in favour of her 23 year old son René, count of Vaudémont. |
| 1473-08-02 | Charles the Bold dispatches Guy de Brimeu, lord of Humbercourt, to Luxembourg, with instructions to prepair for a possible attack on Lorraine and to take possession of any place willing to submit to him. 104 |
| 1473-08-04 | René, count of vaudémont, now duke of Lorraine, made his solemn entry into Nancy. 104 |
| 1473-08-14 | Jobst Tetzel, a German mercenary serving with Charles the Bold, reported from Zutphen that 'my lord had given to his own officials every suitable office in the conquered towns…'. 120 |
| 1473-08-22 | Charles the Bold visits Aachen between 22-26 August. 38 |
| 1473-09-?? | Bishop George von Baden of Metz and Charles the Bold sign a treaty making them allies in what could have easily become a war against Lorraine. 105 |
| 1473-09-?? | Rumors circulated in Germany that Charles the Bold had 'conquered Friesland'. 111 |
| 1473-09-02 | A deputation from the town of Metz, hopping to win the good gracies of Charles the Bold who was traveling south through the duchy of Luxembourg, presented him with a gift of 100 qeues of wine. 38 |
| 1473-09-12 | The Neapolitan ambassador reported from Luxembourg that Charles the Bold hoped to gain possession of the principal fortresses in Lorraine because that 'duchy was like a barrier between here and Burgundy'. 105 |
| 1473-10-?? | Theda of Friesland set about organizing her fellow countrymen throughout non-Burgundian Friesland into a defensive league against Charles the Bold, which also embraced Groningen.It was agreed that in the event of a Burgundian attack everyone would field a thousand men within 8 days. 111 |
| 1473-10-?? | Abbey of St. Maximin outside Trier, another ordinance is issued. 208 |
| 1473-10-15 | René, duke of Lorraine, signed a treaty with Charles the Bold at Nancy each promising to assist the other if they were attacked by France, also giving rights of passage of Burgundian troops through Lorraine. 106 |
| 1473-12-?? | Jehan Carondelet, Franche-Comté official, appointed first president of the Parlement of Malines. 4 |
| 1473-12-16 | Charles the Bold visits René duke of Lorraine in Nancy, relations are still friendly at this time. 107 |
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