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The Order of the Golden Fleece
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This chapter contains a selection of translated and annotated texts on the Order of teh Golden Fleece. The foundation of the Burgundian curial Order of chivalry known as the Golden Fleece was proclaimed on the market place at Bruges on behalf of Philip the Good during the festivities of his wedding to Isabella of Portugal in January 1430. The political value of the Order to the Valois dukes and their Habsburg successors lay in the acceptance on oath of the demanding statutes by a membership of high-ranking noblemen from the Burgundian dominions, and by a smaller but growing number of foreign rulers and dignitaries. A more neglected dimension of the political importance of the Golden Fleece was its relevance to urban society.

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