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| | Flanders, Brittany, Burgundy, Anjou, Normandy, Blois, Champagne, Toulouse, etc. |
 | | Charles the Good, in turn, is murdered himself, and the County passes to a second cousin, William Clito of Normandy, the great grandson of Baldwin V through his daughter Maltilda, who had married William the Bastard, later William the Conqueror, of Normandy. |
 | | As Charles the Bold tried to effect the Burgundian conquest of Lorraine, he was defeated and killed in the Battle of Nancy in 1477 -- a battle counted as one of the first modern battles, since it was won by an infantry of Swiss pikemen, i.e. |
 | | Anjou was revived as a Duchy for Charles, the brother of King Louis IX of France, in 1246. |
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