#Charles the Bold

[illustratus]

The Flight of Charles the Bold (La Fuite de Charles le Téméraire)

by Eugène Burnand

[marianadecarlos]

Charles The Bold, Duke of Burgundy Fanart

Charles allied himself to England because of his second wife, Margaret of York, during the latest stages of the War of Roses.

Dedicated to my friend @rmelster I hope you liked ☺️

[tommi-art]

Reliquary of Charles the Bold, Gérard Loyet (1467 — 1471), Cathedral of St Paul, Liège

[rmelster]

Providence decided that I would have a Charles the Bold x Margaret of York revival.

[dreamconsumer]

Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy (1433-1477).

[racefortheironthrone]

Sorry if it's obvious, but I admit I'm a bit confused on there being both Dukes of Burgundy and also Counts of Burgundy and what's the difference?

Because the medieval border region between France and the HRE can't ever be straightforward and rational, there was both a Duchy and a County of Burgundy. And to make matters more confusing, they were right next to each other:

The most significant political difference between them is that the Duchy of Burgundy was part of the Kingdom of France (although they didn't always agree on that) and the County of Burgundy (better known as the Free County or the Franche-Comté) was part of the Holy Roman Empire.

However, and this is an example of how complicated medieval politics could get, both Burgundies were in personal union under the House of Valois-Burgundy, and thus were part of the Burgundian State that Charles the Bold very much wanted to make the core of his revived, independent, and coequal Kingdom of Burgundy. It didn't work out thanks to the Swiss pikemen and the treacherous Hapsburgs, but it came very close to becoming a thing.

[richmond-rex]

Charles the Bold was an ardent propagandist, sending out letters to local authorities justifying his policies, circulating inspiring accounts of great court festivities, expounding his view of princely powers and duties in the preambles to his ordinances and continuing the Burgundian tradition of a workshop of court historians fashioning favourable versions of the past and present. Edward IV began to commission similar official chronicles after his return from exile in the Netherlands, and made a practice of issuing royal proclamations in full and sometimes self-justificatory English texts, rather than bald Latin instructions to announce certain information.

Steven Gunn, State Development in England and the Burgundian Dominions, c.1460-c.1560

But it was Henry VII, perhaps inspired by Maximilian’s enthusiastic perpetuation of the Burgundian penchant for propaganda, who first appointed a court historian, first circulated accounts of diplomatics festivities (and did so in print), used fuller proclamations and the preambles to parliamentary statues — likewise printed by the king’s printer from 1504 — to explain himself to his people, and wrote to local authorities ordering celebrations of such successes as the Anglo-Burgundian marriage treaty of 1507 and expounding on their significance.

[snapheart1536]

There is a theory that these playing cards represent royalty of mid fifteenth century.

Here is the deck in full.

ab. 1475-1480 The Cloisters Playing Cards by South Netherlandish master

King of Horns / Queen of Horns / Knave of Horns

King of Nooses / Queen of Nooses / Knave of Nooses

King of Collars / Queen of Collars / Knave of Collars

King of Tethers / Queen of Tethers / Knave of Tethers

(Metropolitan Museum of Art)

[thefreelancehistorywriter]

Marie of Luxembourg, Countess of Saint-Pol and Soissons and Vendôme

Marie of Luxembourg, Countess of Saint-Pol, Soissons and Vendôme from the Book of Hours of Catherine de’Medici While researching my book about the women of Burgundy, the name of Marie of Luxembourg arose as she married her maternal uncle Jacques of Savoy, Count of Romont. Yolande of France, Duchess of Savoy, had to contend with the political shenanigans of Jacques during her reign as regent for…

[illustratus]

The Battle of Grandson by Jacques Onfroy de Bréville

[queenofcastile]

The Redemption of Charles the Bold

https://www.lulu.com/shop/laura-jean-whalen/the-redemption-of-charles-the-bold/paperback/product-dyreyrj.html?q=&page=1&pageSize=4 A story of redemption and returning home for the Duke of Burgundy after the battle of Nancy in 1477.

[rmelster]

*sighs* Charles.

Partie d'échecs dégénérant en assassinat (Chess game degenerating into assassination). 1462-1470.

[stonelord1]

CROWN IN EXILE: A NOVEL OF RICHARD AND EDWARD IN BURGUNDY

    A part of Richard III’s life often overlooked in fiction is the brief time he spent in exile with his brother, Edward IV, from October 1470 to March 1471. Usually, this event is a mere footnote in most novels, no doubt because it might be seen as ‘slowing down the action’ and also because the documentary sources are quite jumbled and difficult to tease out. For instance, at one time it was…

[rmelster]

GUESS WHO’S THE BIRTHDAY BOY!

[uniquecellest]

[acertifiedwitch]

My favorite relationship dynamic is a healthy straight couple befriending a dark haired fella and then proceeding to accidentally create the most powerful queer polycule in existence