188 Chronology
(^) General Romandie/Savoy
1465 Vaud conferred as apanage on Count
Jacob de Romont
1467 Burgrecht between Bern, Fribourg,
and Savoy
1469 Treaty of St Omer. Austria mortgages
Outer Austria to Burgundy
1473 Apanage of Vaud entrusted to Bern
and Fribourg
1475–7 Burgundian Wars
1475 Treaty of Moncalieri between Savoy,
Milan, and Burgundy
Bern occupies Aigle
Valais communes occupy Lower
Valais
1476 Battles of Grandson and Murten
1477 Battle of Nancy: Duke Charles the
Bold slain
Renewal of Burgrecht between Duke
Philibert of Savoy, Bern, and
Fribourg
Franche-Comté sold to Maximilian of
Austria but then passes to France
Fribourg and Solothurn become
imperial free cities
Negotiations over reparations
(Geneva) and future of Vaud
Saubannerzug (see Glossary)
1481 Compact of Stans Fribourg and Soloturn accepted as
full members of Confederation
1484 Common lordships of Orbe-
Échallens and Grandson established
alongside Morat
1493 Treaty of Senlis: Franche-Comté passes
to France
1498 French invasion of Milan Maximilian’s designs upon
Neuchâtel
Beginning of Italian Wars
1503 Margravine Johanna of Hochberg
succeeds as ruler of county of
Neuchâtel
1504 Margravine Johanna marries Louis,
duc d’Orléans-Longueville
Accession of Duke Charles II
1507–18 Austrian occupation of castle Joux
1508–13 Frauds of Jean Dufour