The French nobleman Charles the Bold (1433-1477) was Duke of Burgundy from 1467 to 1477. During his life the Burgundian state reached the height of its political, economic, and cultural power. The last of the four Valois dukes of Burgundy, Charles the...

(1433–1477). Duke of Burgundy. Charles was the last of the four Valois dukes of Burgundy, whose state, based in the Netherlands, became a European power in the 15th century. Although his French sobriquet,“le Téméraire,”...