The Capture of Joan of Arc

Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 1778. Estimate $100.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

FRANCE, Provincial. Bourgogne (duché). Philippe III le Bon (the Good). 1419-1467. BI Angronne (1.36 g, 1h). Auxonne mint. + P[h]S : DVX : ЄT : COmЄS : BG, coat-of-arms of Bougogne / + AnSЄRnA : DЄ : AVXOnnA, cross pattée; lis and lion in alternating quarters. Dumas-Dubourg 15-13 var. (obv. legend); Poey d'Avant 5794 var. (same); Boudeau 1241; Roberts 7906. VF.

From the Leonard O. Greenfield Collection.

A figure in his father’s attempts to win the favor of Charles VI, Philippe III was engaged to Michele de Valois, Charles’s daughter, only to later marry Bonne d’Artois and then Isabella de Portugal. Following the assassination of his father, Jean, Philippe inherited the titles of the duke of Bourgogne, as well as the count of Flandre, Artois, and Franche-Comté. His growing ties with the English included the marriage of his sister Anne to the duke of Bedford, regent for Henry VI of England and, in 1430, his troops captured Jeanne d’Arc at Compiègne and handed her over to the English who orchestrated a heresy trial, ultimately ending in her burning at the stake. In 1435, Philippe’s interests were changed again, as the leading French delegation and clergy urged him to back their cause and Charles VII. With the Treaty of Arras, the feud between Philippe and Charles was effectively ended, while the French cause in the Hundred Years’ War was strengthened significantly.