Philip the Bold: The Formation of the Burgundian State

302 Pages·1962·9.133 MB·English

by  Richard Vaughan

Philip the Bold

Philip the Bold
THE FORMATION OF THE BURGUNDIAN STATE
RICHARD VAUGHAN
HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
CAMBRIDGE • MASSACHUSETTS
1962
© Richard Vaughan 1962
First published 1962
PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN
Contents
Abbreviations ix
Introduction xiii
1. Philip the Bold and the Recovery of France under Charles V i
2. The Acquisition of Flanders: 1369-85 16
3. The First Peer of France: 1380-1404 39
4. The Crusade of Nicopolis 59
5. The European Scene 79
MARRIAGE ALLIANCES 81
EXPANSION 92
DIPLOMACY 107
THE INHERITANCE 109
6. The Burgundian State 113
THE TWO BURGUNDIES 114
THE LOW COUNTRIES 126
CENTRAL GOVERNMENT 139
CONCLUSION 149
7. The Two Burgundies under Philip the Bold 151
8. Philip the Bold, Count of Flanders 168
9. The Burgundian Court and Philip the Bold’s Patronage
of the Arts 188
10. The Burgundian Civil Service 208
11. The Finances of the Burgundian State 226
Epilogue 237
Bibliography 241
Index 261

Illustrations
i. Philip the Bold: copy of a lost contemporary portrait painted
for the Charterhouse of Champmol. Musée de Versailles Frontispiece
facing page
2. The castle of Sluis: an eighteenth-century print by H. Spil-
man, after an earlier painting. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam 176
3. The Charterhouse of Champmol in 1686. Dijon, Bibliothèque
publique, MS. 2081 177
4. The pedestal of Claus Sluter’s monumental Crucifixion, called
the puits de Moïse, at the Charterhouse of Champmol, Dijon 192
5. Detail of Claus Sluter’s carving of Philip the Bold on the portal
of the Champmol Charterhouse church 193
6. The presentation in the Temple and the flight to Egypt: one of
the shutters painted by Melchior Broederlam for the Champ­
mol alter-piece. Musée de Dijon 208
7. Page, with an illumination depicting the Tartars, from a manu­
script of Hayton’s Fleur des histoires d'Orient commissioned by
Philip the Bold in 1403. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, MS.
fr. 12201, f. 17b 209
(.Illustrations J, 4 and 6 are from photographs
by Giraudon, Mansell Collection)
List of Maps
i. Map illustrating the Roosebeke campaign of 1382 and the
English campaign in Flanders of 1383 26
2. The possessions of Philip the Bold after 1396 112
3. Sketch-map of the two Burgundies and Nevers 123
4. Map of Flanders showing the castellanies at the end of the
fourteenth century. After Nowé 136
Genealogical table
Marriages and betrothals of Philip the Bold’s children and grand­
children during his lifetime 82
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