MARIE DE CLÈVES [Duchy of Cleves, 1426 -... - Lot 145 - Varenne Enchères

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MARIE DE CLÈVES [Duchy of Cleves, 1426 -... - Lot 145 - Varenne Enchères
MARIE DE CLÈVES [Duchy of Cleves, 1426 - Chauny, 1486], a fifteenth-century princess and patron of the arts who became Duchess of Orleans through her marriage to Duke Charles of Orleans in 1440. She was the mother of King Louis XII of France. Piece signed "Marie", countersigned by Villebresme. Chauny June 29, 1471; oblong vellum large in-8. Piece written six years after the death of Charles d'Orléans, the future Louis XII being 9 years old. "Marie Duchesse dorleans de Milan et de Valois. Countess of Blois of pavie and Beaumont lady dast and of Coucy. Having the custody, government and administration of our trescher and tresame son Loys due conte and lord of the Duchez Contez and Seigneuries and of our other children", asks Raoul de Refuge, keeper of the seals and governor general of finances, to pay Gobert Le Normant 16 livres parisis for his office of prosecutor on the lands of Coucy and Chauny "after the trespas of our late tres redoubte lord and spouse que dieu absoille"...
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