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LOUIS XI. Letter signed "Loys", countersigned by his secretary and first treasurer Jean Bourré, addressed to Jacques de Bueil, seigneur Du Boys, and Albert Magalot, his ambassadors in Milan. Les Montils-lès-Tours, September 22 [1471]. 1 p. in-8 oblong, address on the back, trace of red wax seal. 800/1.000 € SUNDAY 10 JULY 2022 THE ROYALTY TO VERS AILLES 11 "Monsr Du Boys and you, me Albert, I have received your letters, together with the articles enclosed in them. And as for the offer that my brother-in-law de Millan is making me, it is to promise to give me VIII HUNDRED LANCES AND II THOUSAND AND V HUNDRED ENFFANS OF PIECE [probably at a time when the Swiss were threatening to invade Savoy], or, in case I have nothing to do with the said people, to lend me the sum of six thousand ducats, rendered at his own expense in Chasteaudaulphin [currently Casteldelfino in Piedmont]. I beg you to thank my brother for this as much as you can, and that you tell him that, thank God, at this time I have only to do this, but that I will accept it as willingly as if I accepted his offers. And when I have to do something, God forbid, I will address myself more to him than to any other, as to that which I know has my affairs in mind as his own. I will write my brother a letter of thanks for the collection and offers he has made to you, which I will write to you at length and which he will see that you believe. You will be able to say to him on this the most beautiful words that you can and that it will never be that I am not held and obliged to him, and this fact you will be able to come... " LOUIS XI AND ITALY. The king carried out an active Italian policy, using all his weight in the peninsula through diplomacy. He maintained a privileged alliance with the Sforzas of Milan, to whom he had family ties: he had married Charlotte of Savoy, whose sister, Bonne, was the wife of the Duke of Milan Galeazzo Maria Sforza (1444-1476). AN UNCERTAIN FRENCH MILITARY-DIPLOMATIC CONTEXT. In December 1470, Louis XI had denounced the treaty of Péronne concluded in 1468 with the Duke of Burgundy Charles the Bold, and had launched his army into Picardy, occupying Amiens, one of the towns on the Somme. There was no doubt that the Bold would react, and in fact he launched a counter-offensive in Picardy in the spring of 1472. Moreover, the English threat was not to be neglected: if, for the time being, the Yorks and the Lancasters were fighting for the throne of England, the situation was about to stabilize and Charles the Bold was the husband of Margaret of York. TWO AMBASSADORS OF LOUIS XI TO THE DUKE OF MILAN. Squire, adviser and chamberlain of the king, captain of the gentlemen of the hotel, the future count of Sancerre JACQUES DE BUEIL belonged to a family of servants close to Louis XI: he was the son of Antoine de Bueil and a natural sister of Louis XI, Jeanne de France (daughter of Charles VII and his favorite Agnès Sorel). His grandfather, Jean V de Bueil had been a companion of Joan of Arc, nicknamed the "Scourge of the English", made admiral of France, adviser and chamberlain of Louis XI. Moreover, his sister Renée married the famous patron Jean de Bruges, lord of La Gruthuyse. Jacques de Bueil would then remain in the service of Charles VIII who would make him cupbearer. - Secretary to Louis XI, ALBERT MAGALOT would distinguish himself in 1473 by negotiating with the ambassadors of the Duke of Milan the renewal of the inféodation of Genoa and Savona. Louis XI, Letters, Paris, Renouard bookstore, t. IV, 1890, n° dxcviii.

LOUIS XI. Letter signed "Loys", countersigned by his secretary and first treasurer Jean Bourré, addressed to Jacques de Bueil, seigneur Du Boys, and Albert Magalot, his ambassadors in Milan. Les Montils-lès-Tours, September 22 [1471]. 1 p. in-8 oblong, address on the back, trace of red wax seal. 800/1.000 € SUNDAY 10 JULY 2022 THE ROYALTY TO VERS AILLES 11 "Monsr Du Boys and you, me Albert, I have received your letters, together with the articles enclosed in them. And as for the offer that my brother-in-law de Millan is making me, it is to promise to give me VIII HUNDRED LANCES AND II THOUSAND AND V HUNDRED ENFFANS OF PIECE [probably at a time when the Swiss were threatening to invade Savoy], or, in case I have nothing to do with the said people, to lend me the sum of six thousand ducats, rendered at his own expense in Chasteaudaulphin [currently Casteldelfino in Piedmont]. I beg you to thank my brother for this as much as you can, and that you tell him that, thank God, at this time I have only to do this, but that I will accept it as willingly as if I accepted his offers. And when I have to do something, God forbid, I will address myself more to him than to any other, as to that which I know has my affairs in mind as his own. I will write my brother a letter of thanks for the collection and offers he has made to you, which I will write to you at length and which he will see that you believe. You will be able to say to him on this the most beautiful words that you can and that it will never be that I am not held and obliged to him, and this fact you will be able to come... " LOUIS XI AND ITALY. The king carried out an active Italian policy, using all his weight in the peninsula through diplomacy. He maintained a privileged alliance with the Sforzas of Milan, to whom he had family ties: he had married Charlotte of Savoy, whose sister, Bonne, was the wife of the Duke of Milan Galeazzo Maria Sforza (1444-1476). AN UNCERTAIN FRENCH MILITARY-DIPLOMATIC CONTEXT. In December 1470, Louis XI had denounced the treaty of Péronne concluded in 1468 with the Duke of Burgundy Charles the Bold, and had launched his army into Picardy, occupying Amiens, one of the towns on the Somme. There was no doubt that the Bold would react, and in fact he launched a counter-offensive in Picardy in the spring of 1472. Moreover, the English threat was not to be neglected: if, for the time being, the Yorks and the Lancasters were fighting for the throne of England, the situation was about to stabilize and Charles the Bold was the husband of Margaret of York. TWO AMBASSADORS OF LOUIS XI TO THE DUKE OF MILAN. Squire, adviser and chamberlain of the king, captain of the gentlemen of the hotel, the future count of Sancerre JACQUES DE BUEIL belonged to a family of servants close to Louis XI: he was the son of Antoine de Bueil and a natural sister of Louis XI, Jeanne de France (daughter of Charles VII and his favorite Agnès Sorel). His grandfather, Jean V de Bueil had been a companion of Joan of Arc, nicknamed the "Scourge of the English", made admiral of France, adviser and chamberlain of Louis XI. Moreover, his sister Renée married the famous patron Jean de Bruges, lord of La Gruthuyse. Jacques de Bueil would then remain in the service of Charles VIII who would make him cupbearer. - Secretary to Louis XI, ALBERT MAGALOT would distinguish himself in 1473 by negotiating with the ambassadors of the Duke of Milan the renewal of the inféodation of Genoa and Savona. Louis XI, Letters, Paris, Renouard bookstore, t. IV, 1890, n° dxcviii.

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