Battle of Morat

Battle of Morat
Part of the Burgundian Wars
Illustration from the Zürcher Schilling (1480/1484)
Date 22 June 1476 Location Near Murten, Canton of Fribourg 46°55′59.999″N 7°7′0.001″E Result Swiss victory
Belligerents
Duchy of Burgundy Duchy of Savoy	Old Swiss Confederacy Duchy of Lorraine Upper Alsace
Commanders and leaders
Charles the Bold Jacques of Savoy John of Luxembourg †	Hans von Hallwyl Hans Waldmann Adrian von Bubenberg René II, Duke of Lorraine
Strength
c. 12,000–c. 20,000	c. 25,000
Casualties and losses
6,000–10,000	410
class=notpageimage| Location within Switzerland

The Battle of Morat took place during the Burgundian Wars (1474–1477) that was fought on 22 June 1476 between Charles the Bold, the Duke of Burgundy, and a Swiss Confederate army at Morat (Murten), about 30 kilometres from Bern. The result was a crushing defeat for the Burgundians at the hands of the Swiss.

See also

• Battles of the Old Swiss Confederacy

Further reading

• Coolidge, William Augustus Brevoort (1911). "Morat" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 18 (11th ed.). pp. 815–816.
• Winkler, Albert (2010). "The Battle of Murten: The Invasion of Charles the Bold and the Survival of the Swiss States," Swiss American Historical Society Review, vol.46, no. 1, pp. 8–34.

External links

• Panorama of the Battle of Morat
• The panorama of the battle of Murten, official site
• Murten Panorama Digital Twin Scanning Project - "the making of"