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[CHARTER]. [GASTRONOMY]. [PHILIPPE LE BEAU]
State of the hou…
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[CHARTER]. [GASTRONOMY]. [PHILIPPE LE BEAU]
State of the hou…
See original version (French)
Lot no. 1
[CHARTER]. [GASTRONOMY]. [PHILIPPE LE BEAU]
State of the house for Tuesday 24 March 1505 [new style 1506].
In French, deed on parchment.
England, Truro (Cornwall), 24 March 1505 [new style 1506].
Brown ink on parchment (ink pale in places), folded document, a few holes in the parchment.
Dimensions: 715 x 195 mm
Rare example of a household register with the day's accounts, of interest for the functioning of Philip the Handsome's court in the year of his death and during his forced stay in England and Cornwall with Henry VII, King of England.
Incipit: "Tuesday the xxiii day of March in the year one thousand five hundred and five before Easter, the king Don Philip of Castile, Leon and Granada, prince of Aragon and of the Two Cities, archduke of Autrice, duke of Bourgongne, of Brabant...Disner, abondman (?), soupper et giste a Truro et pour tout deffroyer par les officiers du roy d'Angleterre...des chambellans et maistres d'ostel a Peryne en Cornouaille. Escu xxi a la valeur de xliv (?) en monnoie (?) de flandres".
King of Castile and Leon, Duke of Burgundy and Brabant, Philip the Handsome (1478-1506) was the son of Maximilian of Austria and Mary of Burgundy. Charles V was born of his marriage to Joanna the Mad.
This document was issued during Philip the Handsome's forced stay in Cornwall following the storm that threw Philip the Handsome's fleet onto the English coast on 10 January 1505 [new style 1506]. In a letter dated Windsor on 1 February 1506, Philip the Handsome described the damage caused by this storm to his fleet, from which his ship had been separated: "All our ships are saved, except for two, one of which was loaded with wheat; and nevertheless all the people who were in the said two ships are also saved. The only people we lost were two cantors from our chapel and a very small number of minor officers from our company, who drowned when they left the large ships to go ashore, and because they were too hasty, and thank God we have not had any other loss of people or property. Philip the Handsome and his court were therefore forced to stay in Cornwall, particularly in Truro and Penryn (Wales). The King of Castile and Duke of Burgundy died shortly afterwards in September 1506: he had spent almost three months (January-March 1506) in Cornwall and England, as a "guest" of King Henry VII.
This document presents the accounts and names of the members of the Court of Burgundy who travelled to Cornwall and the sums spent on the meals organised during their stay. Among the services provided are those of the Grant Chapelle, Chamberlains, Maistres d'ostel, Escuiers pannetiers, Escuiers transchans, Menuz offices panneterie, Eschançonnerie, Cuisiier Saulcerie, Fruicterie, Paiges, Fourriers, Trompectes, Capitaines archiers et alia.
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