Nov 14, 2024 - Sale 2686

Sale 2686 - Lot 48

Price Realized: $ 4,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
WRITTEN DURING BURGUNDIAN WARS CHARLES ("THE BOLD"); DUKE OF BURGUNDY. Letter Signed, "Charles," to Duke of Milan Galeazzo Maria Sforza, in French, listing the names of the ambassadors he is sending to meet him, asking that he receive them and listen to the request they convey, and asking that he dispatch them as quickly as possible with the answer. 1 page, 4to, addressed on verso in unknown hand; some chipping along right edge (without loss to text), reinforced along left edge verso, moderate scattered staining, folds. Neuss, 15 April 1475
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". . . I have now commanded and deputized my ambassadors, my very dear and loyal knight and first chamberlain, my lord Antoine, the bastard of Burgundy, Count de La Roche in Ardennes; and my beloved and faithful lords Francesco d'Este, marquis of Ferrara; Antoine d'Orlyé, governor of Nice in Provence; my lord Jean de la Vieuville; my bailiff of Saint-Quentin, my chamberlains; my lord Guillaume de Rochefort, ordinary master of receipts of my household; master Louis Vivory[?], dean of Dole, all my councellors; Amine de Vanperghes[?], my horse squire and leader of a hundred lances of my troops; and Regnier de Mancella, my household squire and governor of my city Nimegue; and master of Salvator de Claricys[?], my secretary, to all of whom I have charged and directed to tell, relate and declare to you certain matters on my behalf. I pray you . . . be good enough to receive them kindly and to hear and believe what they tell you . . . and in addition to dispatch them concerning the matter which they will fully tell you about, on my behalf, and as quickly as you can . . . to send me news of yourself together with whether or not it is a thing that you can do . . . ."
Between July 29, 1474 and June 27, 1475, the Duke of Burgundy led a failed siege against the city of Neuss in the western part of the Holy Roman Empire because of an agreement with Ruprecht, Archbishop of Köln, to suppress a local rebellion against him.