 This battle was the first in which the innovative Swiss pike square formation was first employed by a power that was not natively Swiss.Charles the Bold, the last Duke of Burgundy had been killed at the Battle of Nancy on January 5, 1477.King Louis XI immediately adjudicated his territories to be recovered fiefs of the French kingdom and campaigned in the counties of Artois, Flanders, Hainaut, and the Duchy of Burgundy.