His membership of the Order of the Golden Fleece was in part earned by the important role he played in quelling rebellious Ghent, whose citizens opposed a salt tax that
Philip the Good had imposed in 1447--Violent conflict over the issue went on for years, until the citizens of Ghent were defeated in 1453 by an army led by Lodewijk and Count Jacques de Luxembourg.
Before discussing my final example, it will be useful to briefly review the nature and origins of Burgundy's ties to France and to the Valois in particular, as well as the circumstances that led Duke
Philip the Good of Burgundy to ally himself with the English against the French in the Treaty of Troyes and throughout the years that followed.
The literary output of the mid-fifteenth-century Burgundian court under
Philip the Good (1419-68) was characterized by the phenomenon of the mise en prose.
1457 showing
Philip the Good at Mass, which includes a group of onlookers who are able to see the duke with both a prayer book and a diptych.
But I think the French excelled themselves when
Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, had a son named Charles the Bold.
Commemorating a sumptuously extragavant banquet mounted by Duke
Philip the Good of Burgundy at his Lille palace in February 1454, the concert features chansons and dances by the pre-eminent composers of the day, including Binchois, Dufay and van Ghizeghem.
One type of this triumph is illustrated by the entry of
Philip the Good into Bruges in 1440 when he was cast in the role of Christ the Savior making a first advent to his sinful people who had earlier rebelled against him (51).
There are portraits or representations of Dufay, Binchois, Ockeghem, Obrecht, Josquin, Willaert, Lassus, Rore and Monte, to name only the most famous composers, and of
Philip the Good, Ercole I d'Este, Charles V, Margaret of Austria and Albert V of Bavaria among the patrons, as well as an astonishing number of full-colour reproductions of manuscripts and prints, of which perhaps the best known are the Cordiforme and Escorial chansonniers, the Chigi Codex and its `twin', Brussels 9126, Brussels 5557 and 11239, and the Medici and Mielich codices.
Chastellain served
Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, as a soldier and later entered Philip's household.
Gossaert went to Italy in the retinue of this grand and peculiar figure, one of the many illegitimate children of Duke
Philip the Good of Burgundy.
2 Which exclusive chivalric order was founded by
Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy in 1430?
He worked as the court painter to
Philip the Good of Burgundy, and may have gone on diplomatic assignments in addition to his duties as a painter.