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[CHARTER]. [GASTRONOMY]. [BOURGOGNE]. [CHARLES QUINT]
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[CHARTER]. [GASTRONOMY]. [BOURGOGNE]. [CHARLES QUINT]
See original version (French)
Lot no. 2
[CHARTER]. [GASTRONOMY]. [BOURGOGNE]. [CHARLES QUINT]
Household statement, expenses for Friday 11 September 1523.
In French, document on parchment.
Good general condition, document folded, a few tears to the parchment at the end of the document.
France (at the time Burgundian States), Bourg-en-Bresse ("Bourgues"), 11 September 1523.
Size: 430 x 112 mm
A rare example of a household register with the day's accounts, of interest for the workings of Charles V's court and for our knowledge of expenditure and food and cooking supplies.
Incipit: "Vendredi xie jour de septembre l'an quinze cens xxiii l'emereur tout le jour en sa ville de Bourghes [...] livres de quarante et xv monnoye de flandres". The town of Pont-de-Vaux, also in Bresse, is mentioned at the end of the document. Mention is made of Antoine de la Barre, Guillaume de Rolle, Jehanot Metteneye maistres d'ostel. See J.-M: J.-M. Cauchies, Finances et financiers des princes et des villes à l'époque bourguignonne, Turnhout, 2004.
The following are categories of expenditure related to the Burgundian court, with the sums due and the names of the providers: Panneterie / Eschançonnerie / Cuisine / Fruicterie / Escuierie / Fourriere / Gaiges. Under the heading "Cuisine" we find, for example: "Pour iiii paster de truytes / Pour iiiu libres de petiz poissons...".
In 1520, Charles V (1500-1558) was elected emperor. He was heir to four dynasties: grandson of the Duchess Mary of Burgundy, Maximilian of Austria, Isabella the Catholic, Queen of Castile, and Ferdinand the Catholic, King of Aragon and Naples, he was Duke of Burgundy under the name of Charles II, King of Spain under the name of Charles I (in Spanish Carlos I), but above all he was known to posterity as the Germanic Roman Emperor Charles V. Charles V was a perpetual wanderer, and his entire court moved with him.
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