LOUIS XII (1462–1515) King of France. P.S., Montils-lez-Tour - Lot 489

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LOUIS XII (1462–1515) King of France. P.S., Montils-lez-Tour - Lot 489
LOUIS XII (1462–1515) King of France. P.S., Montils-lez-Tours, January 17, 1493 [1494]; oblong folio-sized vellum, fragment of a red wax equestrian seal with a shield bearing a coat of arms in the contrascel. A beautiful and interesting document from the aftermath of the “Mad War,” during which the future King of France—then Duke of Orléans, Milan, and Valois—had opposed the Regent Jeanne de Beaujeu, daughter of Louis XI. Payment order issued at the request of the children of the late Jean Boudet, Comptroller General of Finances, for sums paid in his name and in that of the Duke of Bourbon (Jean II, 1456–1488)... “During the time we were in Brittany with our late most dear lord and cousin, the Duke—may God rest his soul—in the year one thousand four hundred and eighty-six, eighty-seven and eighty-eight, the said late Jean Boudet was appointed by us and entrusted with the task of making payments from our treasury, silver house, and chamber for the funds and other expenses and charges that we were required to incur at that time in the said country of Brittany”… These payments were made to the Lord of Lestrange, to Jehan de Vaulx, and to Bertrand Prévost, treasurer to the Count of Dunois...
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