The Way into the Burgundian Wars (Pt. 1)

In the 1470s the Swiss earned their infamous reputation as some of the most sought-after mercenaries in Europe. In the Burgundian wars the old Swiss confederacy and its allies were confronted with an ever-expanding ambitious Burgundian duke who tried to carve out his own kingdom between France and the Holy Roman Empire, but this is not a simple story. It is not merely a narrative of a defensive war against an overwhelming enemy. The Swiss were quite ambitious themselves. This video is the first in a series and explains how contemporary historiography recounts the beginning of the Burgundian Wars.
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Bibliography
Fibicher, A., Walliser Geschichte (3 vol.), Sitten / Visp 32004.
Dubois, H., Charles le Téméraire. Fayard, Paris 2004.
Kurz, H. R., Schweizerschlachten, Bern 1962.
Péloz, P., s.v. Lothringen, in: Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz.
Ruch, C., s.v. Waldshuterkrieg, in: Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz.
Ruch, J., Geschichte der Stadt Waldshut, Waldshut 1966.
Sieber-Lehmann, S., Spätmittelalterlicher Nationalismus. Die Burgunderkriege am Oberrhein und in der Eidgenossenschaft, Göttingen 1995.
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Queloz, D., s.v. Schlacht von Héricourt, in: Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz.
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[@SandRhomanHistory]

Translation of Swiss German words and phrases in the video: nei - no chuchichästli - kitchen cupboard (this is what every Swiss will have you say to prove that you'll pronounce it wrongly) Grüezi - Greetings (formal) Schafseckel, die Berner - balls of sheep / sheep testicles, these Bernese Hoffentlich zerrts üch in mistzetter innä - hopefully you'll get dragged into a manure spreader (we asked a friend of our from Uri how he would utter his contempt towards the Bernese)

[@alexandrub8786]

1.What have the berniese done to him? 2.He should see a doctor.

[@SandRhomanHistory]

1. Haha, the people from Uri have their own little rivalry with the Bernese ;) 2. Yeah, he might have some problems.

[@invinciblemindset6609]

@@SandRhomanHistory Why their's outfit are not flamboyant?

[@SandRhomanHistory]

@@invinciblemindset6609 It's too early for that kind of fashion. In the 70s the Swiss would have worn half-armor, that is often a breastplate and a helmet in the style depicted in the video. Many Swiss would just go to war without any armor (they would stand in the middle of the formation not on the outer rows).

[@keegobricks9734]

@ 2:26 I ha dno idea Burgundy was a giant lake.

[@brianoneil9662]

This is the way history should be presented. Clear, engaging, clever and going beyond just lists of names and dates. Bravo and well done!

[@SandRhomanHistory]

Glad you enjoyed it :)

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Needs more Magic Users!

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@@horuslupercal9936 Because that worked out so well for you, eh Horus? 😂

[@Timearkgameing]

Underrated channel should have 1 million + subs

[@thehistoricalhierophant6019]

I love this period, 15th century warfare is so underrated, keep up the great work.

[@dennisnordlund902]

I agree, it’s my favorite period and not only because of ze mighty zweihänder

[@jonathanscott7372]

There are two large stone cannonballs from this siege of Waldshut, now set in the town gate. One of the shops in the main street "Kaiserstrasse" in Waldshut, also has a smaller stone cannonball from the siege set in wall. The breaking of the siege is still celebrated annually in Waldshut.

[@mr.echo24]

The Burgundian Wats are one of my favourite times in history and favourite wars, it had by far the coolest type of medieval armour and was pretty much the end of the middle ages in most of Western Europe

[@P4hs]

13:43 - "The retreating men . . . were --*ahem*-- 🌹REQUESTED to turn back to battle. Those who tried to flee, were🗡️killed."

[@philRminiatures]

Splendid pictures and animations once again, and a fascinating subject...Gorgeous and inspiring video!

[@SandRhomanHistory]

Hey, once again our thanks for your kind comments :)

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Spreading the Swiss word *\0/* Great animations and interesting topic!

[@SandRhomanHistory]

thanks, also I like the original name quite a lot :P

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@@SandRhomanHistory are you swiss yourself?

[@HeliodromusScorpio]

ATTACK! NEI. Speech 100

[@pikeshotBattles]

Let's get rid of that strange shaped country in the middle, so we can have a common border - said France to Germany. And that's how all the troubles of modern history began...

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Very interesting topic! I'd like to hear more about the swiss and their wars

[@oliviermosimann6931]

We're too discreet to disclose that ;)))

[@tobago3679]

Thank you for this detailed and objective take on these events. Great content!

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I smell a series! And Im stoked!

[@avonkross2217]

This is just outstanding work and I actually wonder how you manage to come up with a new vid every second week with such high quality content. Also I'm impressed by that Swiss Army Knife casually making an appearance in the 1470s..

[@SandRhomanHistory]

Heey, it's nice to see you still around. :) I fondly remember your comments on our videos about ancient Rome! Well, I guess I'm somewhat of a workaholic but also just really like what I'm doing ;)

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what i appreciate about your channel/videos is that you tell us stories about unknown! there are so many small kingdoms duchies and so one with rich military history, but nobody whats to tell about them! Tnak you!

[@bruh-vr5um]

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[@washubrain]

Brilliant coverage of the less known details of this conflict. Thank you!

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[@milominderbinder8655]

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[@brokenbridge6316]

A nice video. I can tell that these wars are going to be quite interesting. I wonder what history would've been like had Charles the Bold succeeded in creating the kingdom he always wanted to create.

[@thenoblepoptart]

It was a doomed project since the days of Lothar I, no realm can exist between two large empires

[@paladinbob1236]

looking forward to the next parts..this is shaping up to be a great series..featuring the little know battles of the swiss...[rubs hands] looking forward to the next parts - cant wait :D

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[@SandRhomanHistory]

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[@CHEESYHEAD684]

I love the intro of a battle between Swiss pikes and Burgundians in front of a ski resort with an electric chairlift.

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[@LudietHistoria]

I absolutely love your animation guys, it's absolutely amazing!

[@mahougaming]

Ludi ?!

[@cplson2706]

As a Swiss living abroad, whenever someone asks me to speak "Swiss", i say Chuchichäztli. 👍

[@StandbyIsrael]

chuchichäzli? nöd chuchichäschtli? komisch I üssere Familie hämmer en vill längere Satz druss gmacht: Chuchichäschtli-Tür-Scharnier-Fabrikdirektor-Bürotürschloss. : :

[@alpinewolf7751]

In Grandson den Mut In Murten das Gut In Nancy das Blut Lost quite all of it, hm, Charles?

[@Sturmknecht]

Spoiler alert, that's only gonna be in the part II video! :)

[@maxa.9135]

One of the reasons I love this channel is that you are more or less the only history youtuber who does not completely butcher german words and names. Most don't even try.👍🙏

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As I understood, he is swiss and speaks german.

[@TrangDB9]

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[@KingLouie37]

Great video, can't wait for the next part! A little tip: Savièse is in the French speaking part of Valais, so its pronunciation is French (silent last e), not German/Italian. The German name would be Safiesch, but it's very uncommon :)

[@dustin4077]

Great video . Was really wanting to know more of Savoys involvement in these wars and this answered lots! Cheers!

[@oliviermosimann6931]

Every December, in Geneva & it's Canton, they still celebrate the "Cauldron feast", when a woman is supposed to have spotted would be savoyard attackers and then chucked the contents & said cauldron, raising the alarm.

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Nicely done!

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[@SandRhomanHistory]

Thanks, will do!

[@allamaadi]

Great video, great cliffhanger

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[@SandRhomanHistory]

Glad you like them!

[@christinejoyinoc9185]

Can't wait for part 2

[@jonathanjayhawk7163]

Aiiiii leaving us with such a cliffhanger! Great videos!

[@SandRhomanHistory]

there will be many more throughout the series :)

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Your videos are getting better and better. I hope an increase of subs follows.

[@rocks2173]

well done as always

[@SandRhomanHistory]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@The_OneManCrowd]

The cyclorama of the Battle of Murten is AMAZING. It's a must see and you can spend a whole day combing the painting for all the incredible details of the surprise attack that destroyed the Bugundian beseigers.

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Jedes Video eine große Freude

[@SandRhomanHistory]

Danke schön!

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Do italian wars too

[@SandRhomanHistory]

It's a long way off but maybe we'll get into that one day.

[@clintmoor422]

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[@SandRhomanHistory]

thanks (again) :)

[@alpenjon]

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[@ReaperCH90]

Back in the days when Bern was bold and active. Now you have to be happy when they manage to pay for their stuff without begging for more federal funds.

[@bradycollins5267]

Love the..............”animations”

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You're great

[@SandRhomanHistory]

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[@romanbrandle319]

1:35 Good response kitchen cupboard !.

[@dontbetrippin4575]

Bern wanted all the smoke

[@kaloarepo288]

I have been watching videos in Italian from Swiss Italian radio and television and one program in particular was very interesting: how the Italian speaking part of Switzerland ended up being Swiss. The fortifications in the city of Belinzona give the clue - initially the Swiss intruders lost big time in a battle with the Milanese led by the condottiero Carmagnola but a subsequent Milanese army got caught in a defile and got massacred by the Swiss and some Italian allies - throwing huge boulders at the Milanese who died like fish being shot in a barrel.

[@johpfit760]

It'd be very helpful is you could somehow show major riders on your maps. It would make it easier to get a grasp of where it happened

[@diegochavez3373]

awesome

[@Rschaltegger]

hmm...the burgundy wars...the fastest Bern has ever been with doing somethings. Over 500 years later they still are exhausted and need to go slow about stuff

[@etuanno]

Well the canton of Bern was huge before Napoleon invaded. I agree we're slow speaking but at least you don't have these annoying filler sounds like in French or the faster dialect.

[@Gurfi28]

etuanno We‘re just so slow that the other cantons have a chance to catch up.

[@IgorChistruga]

That's awesome, thank you - but could you please edit the subtitles to correspond the video's text? thank you in advance

[@Thraim.]

Chuchichäschtli means kitchen cabinet but I'm not sure why it is said here. Is it a joke about how most non Swiss people can't pronounce it? [EDIT] Well, the pinned comment clears this up pretty nicely.

[@jocomol6796]

Yes, we like to ask everyone to say it.

[@iopklmification]

@@jocomol6796 chuchichästli ! I said it !

[@clintmoor422]

@@iopklmification NO it's chuucchchchichästli

[@noehirschi1367]

To be honest only swiss-german will force you to pronounce that and they probably have 30 different manners to pronounce it.

[@generalSARKOTIC]

hello i really like your videos, could you make somethingabout black legion of croatia-hungary king matthias corvinus, thanks keep up the good work

[@CRUX9891]

"Hoffentlich zerrts üch in mistzetter innä" - lmao, I need to add that to my repertoire.

[@kuko331]

Love that mini series 😍 👌 excellent job, only pity is that Charlie was a terrible Commander 😳 😔😁

[@insanocrazedman2667]

Does anyone know the music at the last 30 seconds of this video?

[@danielmeyer3455]

may i ask how you animate the videos , i would like to try something like that, ty in advance?

[@SandRhomanHistory]

Well, it's mostly after effects and premiere pro. I fear, going into detail is really not possible in a KZbin comment. Basically, I just watched a lot of tutorials online and learned on the go. If you have a look at our older stuff then it becomes quite clear. I started with free ware (Shotcut) and subscription software called Videoscribe.

[@sebastienm5569]

More on Savoy please

[@rogerm7687]

As a Swiss I'm very happy some KZbinr get it almost right. Thumbs up😂

[@zintosion]

feel the Bern

[@ChilledfishStick]

It's so difficult to keep track of all those cities, alliances, leagues, duchies, nations, city states, or any other combination of people with weapons and relations between them. I've never heard of most of these, and some of these entities don't make sense to me at all. How could Vaud (whatever kind of entity it is. The auto dictionary thinks it's a spelling mistake), can be only a part of Savoy (again, whatever kind of entity it is)? It's all very interesting and very well-made, but I'm just so confused, and this is the second time I've watched it.

[@Brian-uc5vj]

Feel the Bern

[@vanivanov9571]

Great video. It seriously needs subtitles though, with all these uncommon place names and a bilingual script.

[@rafalemiec8683]

Charles indeed was quite bold... for a man with two left legs 3:05

[@SandRhomanHistory]

Shhhh, nobody will ever notice!

[@smcasas9367]

Was Chuchichästli the Swiss war cry?

[@clintmoor422]

1:05 shield are important, ey?

[@criztu]

The migits of the mines of Moria, lords of mountain passes, stretched their axes invoking the name of their creator. Thunderous clouds descended from the heights rolling down over the low lands of the mischievous duke of Burgondor.

[@shogun242424]

i can't find the place mentionned 8:26 : Aricourt ? How do you spell it ?

[@SandRhomanHistory]

Héricourt*

[@shogun242424]

@@SandRhomanHistory Thx, this place I know :)

[@davidjijo6657]

god what a cliffhanger...

[@mrstarfishh33]

Hey at 4:54 you accidentally say in "1960 onwards" it's also written on the screen. Just a heads up

[@paracovo]

It's correct. He's talking about the historians who wrote about it and the historiography of the period.

[@khoa2480]

By calculation,1 lance is 10 men,100 lances are 1 company(1,000 men). So Charles the Bold has 24,000 men(24 companies) despite being a duchy and during period after Medieval time. Impressive!! Really he could take on to attack French or Holy Roman Emperor's domain,it's really sad that he lost against the Swiss,he could create a kingdom and balance between France and HRE.

[@LongJ22]

As a Schwitzer I laughed when I saw the word "chochichastli" ahah nice!

[@oliviermosimann6931]

Ich auch :)

[@threethrushes]

I had no idea the Swiss were so violent.

[@vffgddhbvv5047]

streng gameing

[@reschi56]

Why do you pronounce the cities like Sélestat or Strasbourg in French? At the time those were still German cities with German names, that's a bit like making a history about the Byzantine empire but referring to the city of Byzantium/Constantinople as Istanbul.

[@jacoblamb3535]

Really a tragedy that a strong permanent Burgundy never developed spanning Savoie to Frisia.

[@susantobelknight]

I just found the mother lode of Swiss ancestors from Glarus, Canton of Glarus. I know nothing about the Swiss. I have some ancestors who fought, and some died, in the battles of Morgarten, Murten, Murder Night, Sempacht, etc. I'm addicted. I'll have to peruse this channel. I also have a Tschudi ancestor named Rudolf who pulled up a fir tree and killed nine men with it. Whoa! His name was "the lange Riebing." I don't know what a Riebing is. Anybody here know? He was called this due to his height. Thank you!

[@KedViper]

3:57 It must have been hard to fight when your soldiers were only 3 foot tall, but at least they would be good in trenches and tunnels.

[@realdragao6367]

Swiss people: we are neutral Also swiss people: proceed to end burgundy for a random ass reason

[@end_evn6680]

Translation?

[@donkdump8807]

Did the Swiss use at least some cavalry throughout the late medieval and early renaissance era?

[@yulusleonard985]

I doubt they can afford one.

[@donkdump8807]

@@yulusleonard985 You doubt the most expensive hired swords in Europe can afford horses?

[@yulusleonard985]

@@donkdump8807 horses cost like Ferrari back in middle ages, specially the one strong enough to carry man with full plate. The entire feudal system exist just to support so one guy can afford a horse and armor. I bet most of their expense goes to logistic. They don't have mass transportation like train yet so moving around was total pain.

[@Torag55]

I doubt they would have used it regularly, if you look at where they come, the Swiss Alps, which is basically mountainous terrain, unsuitable for mounted warfare, and which is why those guys that attacked the Swiss in their own home territory always tend to lose.

[@mauricesila6332]

@@Torag55 It's a very common misconception from people who don't know Switzerland :) Even if most of the country is covered by mountains, a good third of it is quite flat, and obviously that's where most people live. Grandson and Morat are at the foot of the mountains but not IN the mountains, it is still the plain. So the old Swissdid have horses, they had a mounted nobility like everyone else in Europe at the time. But they didn't have much of it so they would use it mainly for reconnaissance. Because most of their armies were made of peasant levies, but also because they were aware that infantry was the reason of their success, therefore the pike was a prestigious arm and some rich people would fight on foot contrary to their neighbors.

[@olliefoxx7165]

Alsace had played many a crucial role in European history. How much blood, sacrifice and toil has it inspired? Only the soil knows.