List of Illustrations
Photographs and illustrations were supplied by or are reproduced by kind permission of those to whom they are attributed.
Cover: See no. 24.
1. Falcon and fetterlock badge. Photograph Geoffrey Wheeler.
2. Fotheringhay Church, Northamptonshire. Photograph Geoffrey Wheeler.
3. Hunsdon House, detail from sixteenth century portrait of Edward VI as Prince of Wales, by W. Scrots, Queen’s Gallery, Windsor. H.M. The Queen.
4. Baynard’s Castle, detail from engraving, View of London, by Claes Visscher, c. 1625. Photograph Geoffrey Wheeler.
5. King Edward IV, Royal Collections. H.M. The Queen.
6. Queen Elizabeth Woodville, Queens’ College, Cambridge. The President and Fellows of Queens’ College Cambridge. Photograph Geoffrey Wheeler.
7. Anthony Woodville, Earl Rivers, presenting his translation of the Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers to King Edward IV, ms. 265f. v, Lambeth Palace Library, London. His Grace The Archbishop of Canterbury and the Trustees of Lambeth Palace Library.
8. Margaret of York, artist unknown. Inventory number R F 38.17 in the Museum of the Louvre, Paris. Les Musées Nationaux de Louvre.
9. Isabella of Portugal, by Rogier van der Weyden. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, California.
10. The Coronet of Margaret of York, the Cathedral Treasury, Aachen. Photograph Geoffrey Wheeler.
11. Charles the Bold, by Rogier van der Weyden. Dahlem Staatliche Museum Berlin. Photograph Jorg Anders Berlin.
12. The Palace at Bruges from an engraving by A. Sanderus in ‘Flandria Illustrata’, 1641. Photograph R. Tavernier
13. Tommaso Portinari by Hans Memlinc. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913 (14-40-626) New York.
14. King Louis XI, J. Fouquet. Private Collection.
15. Jewelled hat of Duke Charles, engraving after a drawing by J. J. Fugger. The Historisches Museum, Basle.
16. Reliquary by G. Loyet, The Cathedral Treasury Liège.
17. The Ducal Palace at Brussels in the seventeenth Century. ACL Brussels.
18. Louis, Lord Gruuthuyse, artist unknown, Groeninge Museum, Bruges. ACL Brussels.
19. Olivier de La Marche, drawing from the Recueil d’Arras, Bibliotheque Municipal, Arras. Photograph Geoffrey Wheeler.
20. Portrait of a woman, possibly Margaret of York, artist unknown. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Robert Lehman Collection, New York.
21. Margaret and Charles kneeling behind St Colette and St Francis, miniature from Vie de Sainte Colette, manuscript in the Convent of the Poor Clares at Ghent. ACL Brussels.
22. Margaret of York, artist unknown. The Society of Antiquaries of London.
23. Tomb of Charles the Bold in the Church of Our Lady, Brugge. ACL Brussels.
24. Margaret performs the acts of charity from Benios Seront les Misericordieux 9296 f1 The Royal Library Brussels.
25. Mary of Burgundy as a young girl, artist unknown, Gaasbeek Castle, Belgium. ACL Brussels.
26. Emperor Maximilian I, 1519, by Albrecht Dürer, The Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
27. Margaret and Mary kneeling in the Chapel of St Anne, Registre de la Guild de Sainte Anne à Gand, in the style of the ‘Master of Mary of Burgundy’ the Royal Library, Windsor Castle. H.M. The Queen.
28. The Palace of Margaret of York at Malines, engraving R. Blokhuyse, Chorographia Sacra Brabantiae. Stadsarchief Mechelen.
29. Equestrian Seal of Mary of Burgundy, 1477, Antwerp Archives. ACL Brussels.
30. Tomb of Mary of Burgundy in the Church of Our Lady at Bruges. ACL Brussels.
31. King Richard III, artist unknows, Royal Collections. H.M. The Queen.
32. Edward IV as Hadrian kneeling before Trajan with Margaret of York beside him, miniature from ms. Roy. 19 E V. The British Library.
33. George, Duke of Clarence, artist unknown, Brocket Hall, Hertfordshire. Lord Brocket. Photograph Geoffrey Wheeler.
34. Tomb of John de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk and his wife Elizabeth, Wingfield Church, Suffolk. Photograph Geoffrey Wheeler.
35. Queen Elizabeth of York, artist unknown, Royal Collections. H.M. The Queen.
36. Perkin Warbeck, drawing from the Recueil d’Arras. Bibliothèque Municipal, Arras. Photograph Geoffrey Wheeler.
37. Deposition, by a follower of Rogier van der Weyden. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, California.
38. Detail of Deposition.
39. The Verdict of Cambyses or The Arrest of the Unjust Judge, Gerard David, Communal Museum, Bruges. ACL Brussels.
40. Probable portrait of Margaret of Austria, Portrait of a young Princes, Master of Moulins. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Robert Lehman Collection, 1975 (1975-1-130) New York.
41. Philip the Fair, Archduke of Austria and Duke of Burgundy, artist unknown, Royal Collections. H.M. The Queen.
42. Joanna of Castile, Archduchess of Austria and Duchess of Burgundy, artist unknow
Royal Collections. H.M. The Queen.
43. Margaret kneeling before the Trinity, miniature in grisaille, from Traites de morale, ms. 9272-76 f. 182. The Royal Library, Brussels.
44. Reliquary presented by Margaret to St Ursmer’s Church, Binche. ACL Brussels.
45. Margaret at prayer, miniature from Benois seront les Miséricordieux studio Jean Dreux, ms 9296, f. 17. The Royal Library, Brussels.
46. Autograph dedication on the final folio of Vie de Sainte Colette manuscript The
Convent of the Poor Clares at Ghent.
47. William Caxton presenting his book to Margaret, frontispiece to Caxton’s edition of the Recuyll of the historyes of Troy by R. LeFevre. The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
MAP
The Burgundian Low Countries 1468-1503
GENEALOGICAL TABLES
1. Selected genealogy of the Houses of York and Mortimer.
2. Selected genealogy of the Houses of Beaufort and Neville.
3. Selected genealogy of the Valois Dukes of Burgundy.
4. Selected genealogy of the Habsburg rulers of Burgundy.
List of Abbreviations
ADN – Archives départementales du Nord, Lille, France
Adrien de But – ‘Chronique des religieux des Dunes’ in Chroniques relatives à l’histoire de la Belgique etc. (ed.) Kervyn de Lettenhove, Brussels (1870)
AGR – Archives Générales du Royaume, Brussels, Belgium
Arrivall – Historie of the Arrivall of Edward IV in England (ed.) J. Bruce (1838)
ASEB – Annales de la société d’ émulation de Bruges
Bacon – Francis Bacon, History of the reign of King Henry VII (1621), (ed.) J. Rawson Lumby (1881)
BARB – Bulletin de l’Académie Royale de Belgique
BCRH – Bulletin de la Commission Royale d’histoire, Belgique
BIHR – Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research
BJRL – Bulletin of the John Rylands Library
BN – Bibliographie Nationale de Belgique
CCR – Calendar of Close Rolls
Chastellain – G. Chastellain, Oeuvres (ed.) Kervyn de Lettenhove, 8 vols. (Brussels 1863-6)
Chronicles of London – Chronicles of London (ed.) C. L. Kingsford (1905)
Chronicles of the White Rose – The Chronicles of the White Rose of York (ed.) J. Bohn (1845)
Chronique Scandaleuse – J. de Roye, Journal connu sous le nom de Chronique Scandaleuse, 1460-1483 (ed.) B. de Mandrot, 2 vols. (Paris 1894-96)
Commines/Godefroy – Phillippe de Commines, Mémoires (ed.) D. Godefroy and Lenglet du Fresnoy, 4 vols. (Paris 1747)
Commynes/Calmette – Phillippe de Commynes, Mémoires (ed.) J. Calmette and G. Durville, 3 vols. (Paris 1924-5)
Commynes/Mandrot – Philippe de Commynes, Mémoires (ed.) B. de Mandrot, 2 vols. (Paris 1901)
CPR – Calendar of Patent Rolls
Croyland – Ingulph’s Chronicle of the Abbey of Croyland (ed.) H. T. Riley (1854)
CSPM – Calendar of State Papers and manuscripts existing in the Archives and Collections of Milan, I, 1385-1618 (ed.) A. B. Hinds (1912)
CSPV – Calendar of State Papers and Manuscripts relating to English Affairs, existing in the Archives and Collections of Venice etc., I, 1202-1509 (ed.) R. Brown (1864)
CSPS – Calendar of State Papers relating to negotiations between Spain and England, 1485-1509 (ed.) G. A. Bergenroth (1862)
English Chronicle – An English Chronicle of the Reigns of Richard II, Henry IV, Henry V and Henry VI (ed.) J. S. Davies (1856)
EHR – English Historical Review
Excerpta Historica – Excerpta Historica (ed.) S. Bentley (1831)
Foedera – Foedera, conventiones etc. (ed.) T. Rymer, 20 vols. (1704-35)
Great Chronicle – The Great Chronicle of London (ed.) A. H. Thomas and I. D. Thornley (1838)
Hall – Edward Hall, Chronicle etc. (ed.) H. Ellis (1809)
Haynin – Jean de Haynin, Mémoires, 1465 (ed.) D. D. Brouwers (Liège 1905-6)
Historical Collections – The Historical Collections of a London citizen in the fifteenth century (ed.) J. Gairdner (1876)
La Marche – Olivier de La Marche, Mémoires (ed.) H. Beaune and J. d’Arbaumont,
4 vols. Paris (1883-8)
MA – Mechelen (Malines) Archives, Belgium
Marguerite d’York – Catalogue of Marguerite d’York et son temps, Exhibition organised by the Banque de Bruxelles, 1967
Molinet – Molinet, J., Chroniques (ed.) G. Doutrepont and O. Jodogne, 3 vols. (Brussels 1935-7)
New Chronicles – The New Chronicles of England and France (ed.) H. Ellis (1811)
Paston/Davis – The Paston Letters (ed.) N. Davis, 2 vols. (1971)
Paston/Gairdner – The Paston Letters (ed.) J. Gairdner, 3 vols. (1910)
Polydore Vergil – The Anglica Historica (ed.) and trans. Denis Hay (1950)
PRO – Public Record Office, London
Rozmital – The Travels of Leo of Rozmital (ed.) Malcolm Letts (1957)
RP – Rotuli Parliamentum (ed.) P. Strachey, 6 vols. (London 1767-83)
Six Town Chronicles – Six Town Chronicles (ed.) R. Flenley (1911)
Waurin – Jehan de Waurin, Recueil des Chroniques (ed.) Sir W. Hardy, 5 vols.
(1864-91)
Whethamstede – Registrum Abbatiae Johannis Whethamstede (ed.) H. T. Riley (1872)
Wielant – Wielant, P., Recueil des Antiquités de Flandre (ed.) J. J. de Smete, Recueil des chroniques de Flandre iv, 1-442 (Brussels 1865)