![The Battle on the Planta in the Zurich and Swiss Chronicle by Gerold Edlibach, between 1506 and 1566.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/planta-titel-300x225.jpg)
The Battle on the Planta
The Valaisans and their Swiss allies defeated a powerful Savoyard army on November 13, 1475 just beyond the gates of Sion. Though little-known outside of Valais today, the Battle on the Planta was of resounding importance to Valais, Savoy, the Old Swiss Confederation, and Burgundy. Had the Valaisans and their Swiss allies lost the battle, Valais and the Confederation would have found themselves at the mercy of Savoy and Burgundy at the height of the Burgundian Wars.
![The Duchy of Savoy around 1475.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/das-herzogtum-savoyen-um-1475-290x300.jpg)
![The Swiss Confederation around 1474.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/die-eidgenossenschaft-um-1474-300x211.jpg)
![The Duchess of Savoy, Yolande de Valois (left), in a dedication in the manuscript Rhetorica by Guillaume Fichet, 1471.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/yolande-de-valois-235x300.jpg)
International Tensions Boil Over
![Charles the Bold, portrait c. 1460, a work by Rogier van der Weyden.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/2019/12/Karl-der-Kuehne-193x300.jpg)
![The seven Zenden on the eve of the Burgundian Wars, 1470.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/die-sieben-zenden-am-vorabend-der-burgunderkriege-1470-300x200.jpg)
![Sion around 1588. Panorama in the Cosmographia by Sebastian Münster.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/sitten-um-1588-300x212.jpg)
The Battle on the Planta
![In hand-to-hand combat, the Confederate troops slew over three hundred Savoyards at the gates of Sion, 1475.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/planta-sitten-chronik-schilling-291x300.jpg)
…know that we will not forget it. We announce this to you in the hope that you will rejoice greatly with us in our good fortune as we do with you.
![Conthey in a hand drawing from 1868.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/conthey-gbe-22804-lm-38819-300x222.jpg)