Franco-Burgundian Wars (Sacred Accord)

The Franco-Burgundian Wars were a series of wars between the Duchy of Burgundy and the Kingdom of France that ran concurrently to the last decades of the Anglo-French Hundred Years' War. There were three wars in total: the First, which occurred between 29 August 1465 and 5 March 1467, the Second, between 6 May 1479 and 21 August 1480, and the Third, between 2 March and 21 October 1490. These three decades saw the rapid expansion of Burgundian territory in the west, with the land under Burgundian authority eventually spanning from Vichy in the south to Amsterdam in the north. Burgundy and England acted in a symbiotic manner between 1465 and 1495 such that France was never at war: when it had signed a truce with Burgundy, England was sure to attack it in its weak state, and vice versa. This facilitated the growth of the Burgundian and English realms in France in the latter half of the 15th Century.