Null CHARLES VIII 1483 - 1498
(dauphin) KAROLVS : DEI : GRA : FRANCORVM; REX : (…

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CHARLES VIII 1483 - 1498 (dauphin) KAROLVS : DEI : GRA : FRANCORVM; REX : (heart). Quarterly field of France and Dauphiné surmounted by a sun. R/. (coronet) XPS.... Punctuation by pointed rings on obverse and reverse. Cross with fleur-de-lys arms. ♦ Fr 322; Dy 579; Gad Sb 110 Écu d'or au Soleil du Dauphiné (1486) Point 1er = Crémieu. (4,51 g) Scratch on reverse. Distorted flan. T.B.

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CHARLES VIII 1483 - 1498 (dauphin) KAROLVS : DEI : GRA : FRANCORVM; REX : (heart). Quarterly field of France and Dauphiné surmounted by a sun. R/. (coronet) XPS.... Punctuation by pointed rings on obverse and reverse. Cross with fleur-de-lys arms. ♦ Fr 322; Dy 579; Gad Sb 110 Écu d'or au Soleil du Dauphiné (1486) Point 1er = Crémieu. (4,51 g) Scratch on reverse. Distorted flan. T.B.

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CHARLES VIII. Letter signed "Charles" TO LODOVICO SFORZA. Lyon, April 16 [1494]. One p. in-8 oblong, address on back. "MON COUSIN, LE CAPPITAINE DIMENCHE DU REGNIER S'EN VA PAR-DELA POUR RECOUVRER SA PLACE DE BON VOISIN ASSISE OU MARQUISAT DE SALUCES que luy detient Anthoine-Marie de Sainct-Severin ainsi qu'il m'a dit, aussi pour avoir son droit de la succession de Becquerie qui luy appartient a cause de sa grant-mere, et pour ce que, obstant mon service ou tousjours ledit cappitaine a été occupé, n'a plus tost aller par-dela, vous prye que luyillez estre ardant envers ledit de Sainct-Severin a ce qu'il puisse recouvrer sadite place et touchant ladite succession assise ou conté de Pavye et duché de Millan, luy faire bonne et briefve expedicion de justice, et vous me fera en ce faisant plaisir très agreable, et adieu mon cousin... " CHARLES VIII THEN PREPARED HIS EQUIPMENT FOR NAPLES, intending to take possession of the throne taken by the Aragonese from the House of Anjou, whose rights he had inherited. It was from Lyon that he would set out in September 1494 to wage what has since been referred to as the first "Italian War". REGENT AND FUTURE DUKE OF MILAN (December 1494), LODOVICO SFORZA (1452-1508) then bore the title of Duke of Bari ("my cousin the Duke of Bar"), and was still allied with France. - CONDOTTIERE ANTONIO-MARIA SANSEVERINO ("Anthoine-Marie de Sainct-Severin"), then in the service of Lodovico Sforza, was soon to switch to that of Charles VIII. - MAITRE D'HOTEL DU ROI AND CAPTAIN OF 100 LANCES, DIMANCHE DU RAYNIER was a Piedmontese who entered French service, and settled in Touraine after marrying a woman from the Maison de Maillé: grandson of Marquis Thomas de Saluces (died 1416) and Marguerite de Pierrepont (died 1419), he claimed a share of the inheritance of the Beccaria family, allied to the Saluces. ATTACHED, an early handwritten copy of a decision by the Parlement de Paris (1483) overturning a sentence by the seneschal of Poitou, the famous memorialist PHILIPPE DE COMMYNES (12 pp. 1/2 in-folio).

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