Louis XI, cunning and cold, secretly financed the Swiss to attack his rebellious subject

Gazing at this map [of Charles the Bold’s territories], Burgundian children must have marvelled at the extent of Charles’s vast domain, stretching north from his dukedom of Burgundy to incorporate the Franche-Comte, Alsace, Lorraine and Luxembourg, Picardy and Artois, Flanders, Brabant and Holland – this was the richest state of fifteenth-century Europe, effectively independent of feudal overlords. But Louis XI, cunning and cold, secretly financed the Swiss to attack his rebellious subject and Charles was killed at the battle of Anancy in 1477. His frozen corpse, half naked and gnawed by wolves, was discovered in an icy stream two days after the defeat of his armies. 

S. Loftus, Puligny-Montrachet (1992. New ed. 2019), 117