Tombs of Charles the Bold (1433-1477) and Mary of Burgundy (1457-1482) at the Church of Our Lady in Bruges, Belgium
Charles the Bold (French: Charles le Téméraire, Dutch: Karel de Stoute, 10 November 1433 - 5 January 1477), baptized Charles Martin, was Duke of Burgundy from 1467 to 1477. He was the last Valois Duke of Burgundy. His early death at Nancy, at the hands of the Swiss fighting for René II, Duke of Lorraine, was of great consequence in European history. The Burgundian domains, long wedged between the growing powers France and the Habsburgs, were divided, but as neither side was satisfied with the results, the disintegration of the Burgundian state, together with the question of the boundary between the French and German spheres of political influence, was a factor in most major wars in Western Europe for the following two centuries and beyond. Mary (13 February 1457 - 27 March 1482), Duchess of Burgundy, reigned over the Low Countries from 1477 until her death. As the only child of Charles the Bold and his wife Isabella of Bourbon, she was the heiress to the vast, and vastly wealthy, Burgundian domains in France and the Low Countries upon her father's death in the Battle of Nancy on 5 January 1477, and was accordingly often referred to as Mary the Rich.
Size: 5760px × 3840px
Location: Church of Our Lady, Mariastraat, Bruges 8000, West Flanders, Flanders, Belgium, Western Europe
Photo credit: © DE ROCKER / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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