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ORLEANS, Charles, Duke of (1394-1465). Document signed with autograph endorsement, Orléans, 8 August 1460, on vellum, 11 lines written in brown ink in a neat chancery hand, one page, 165 x 345 mm, elegant calligraphic signature and endorsement, 'En entretenant cel Escript de n[ot]re main', countersigned by Guyot (slightly cockled, small tear in top edge not touching writing, traces of red wax seal on verso). Provenance: Collection of L.-A. Barbet (sale 15-16 November 1932, lot 281)
An order to Benoît, treasurer of Asti, to make a payment to two of his officials from the ordnance and domaine of the Seigneurie of Asti: 'Vous paierez et delivrez la somme de trois cens cinqante dix livres tou[rn]ois a nos amiez et feaulx messire Guy de Brilhac, chevalier, not[re] conseiller et chambellan et Jehan deparis n[ot]re secretaire que nous leur avons ordonnee prandre sur vous ... pour certains voiages quilz ont fais et que p[rese]ntement leur faisons faire es marches de lombardie et dYtalie'
Charles d'Orléans laid a somewhat tenuous claim to Asti in Piedmont as part of his inheritance from his mother, Valentina Visconti.
An order to Benoît, treasurer of Asti, to make a payment to two of his officials from the ordnance and domaine of the Seigneurie of Asti: 'Vous paierez et delivrez la somme de trois cens cinqante dix livres tou[rn]ois a nos amiez et feaulx messire Guy de Brilhac, chevalier, not[re] conseiller et chambellan et Jehan deparis n[ot]re secretaire que nous leur avons ordonnee prandre sur vous ... pour certains voiages quilz ont fais et que p[rese]ntement leur faisons faire es marches de lombardie et dYtalie'
Charles d'Orléans laid a somewhat tenuous claim to Asti in Piedmont as part of his inheritance from his mother, Valentina Visconti.
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