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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture > Duke of Burgundy Charles the Bold (Charles le Téméraire) has his beautiful > tomb in the Onze Lieve Vrouwe-Kerk in Bruges. But he was buried in Nancy in > 1477 in the St-Georges Church. Did he have a nice tomb as well in that > church? Does that tomb still exist today? Does someone have a picture of > that tomb? Dear Bas, According to the Michele Beaulieu and Victor Beyer, eds, Dictionnaire des sculpteurs francais du moyen age (Picard, 1992), p. 108-9, in 1499 the sculptor Jean Crocq was contracted to make a tomb for Charles le Temeraire for the collegiate church of St Georges in Nancy. In 1550, he had lain for a half century in this tomb, which had been ordered by Rene II, then regent of the Low Countries, but in that year, Marie of Hungary claimed the body, which was exhumed and taken to Bruges, where it was place in a tomb made by Jacques Jongheling of Antwerp on the commission of Philippe II. The tomb in Nancy was destroyed in 1717 on the order of Duke Leopold, but the description in the contract survives, as do several drawings and engravings. The drawing made for Roger de Gaignieres is reproduced here, and there is a considerable bibliography on the Nancy tomb also given. Let me know if you would like further details. Cheers, Jim Bugslag ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html