The Troubled Inheritance of Mary of Burgundy and Dynastic Consolidation
Tides of History
Audible / Patrick Wyman
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🗓️ 21 February 2019
⏱️ 51 minutes
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When Charles the Bold, duke of Burgundy, met the business end of a Swiss halberd in 1477, his 19-year-old daughter Mary was set to inherit all of his vast possessions. But her position was precarious, surrounded by rapacious neighbors and rivals. The decisions she made about her future set in motion a chain of political events that would define Europe for centuries to come.
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| 0:06.2 | The snow had been falling for days now. |
| 0:20.1 | An icy January win, the coldest January anybody could remember blew the flakes in great |
| 0:26.2 | swirling gusts. |
| 0:28.6 | Here, amid those gusts, a small group of men was trudging through the January cold. |
| 0:34.2 | Scarves covered their mouths. |
| 0:36.0 | Their hats were pulled low over ears barely fending off frostbite. |
| 0:40.1 | It was impossible to see more than a few feet in front of them. |
| 0:43.2 | It was also impossible to walk more than a few feet without running into a large bump |
| 0:47.3 | in the field, half buried in the drifts of snow. |
| 0:51.0 | These weren't natural bumps in the rolling landscape of Lorraine. |
| 0:54.7 | The corpses, the bodies of the ill-fated army the Duke of Burgundy had led here to |
| 0:59.4 | besiege the city of Nalsee in the depths of a freezing winter. |
| 1:03.9 | Two days before, on January 5th, 1477, the Duke's army had been utterly destroyed in |
| 1:09.9 | just a few minutes of fighting. |
| 1:12.0 | Swiss mercenaries with pikes and halberds, city militiamen from Strasbourg hardened |
| 1:16.6 | men at arms from Lorraine and France. |
| 1:19.2 | They had utterly crushed the forces of Charles the Bull, the Duke of Burgundy and a king |
| 1:23.5 | in all that name. |
| 1:25.6 | Most of his men had died where they stood. |
| 1:28.4 | But Charles the Bull was missing. |
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