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Charles of Valois, the father of the future Bohemian queen Blanche, was one of the most famous patrons of his time. Besides chronicles, travelogues, medical manuals and an epic about Charlemagne, a code was created for him around 1320, the core of which is a book about Fauvel, a brazen horse who declared himself king. It was basically a princely mirror, thus a treatise on exemplary and bad governance. The work was written by two notaries of the royal chancellery, whose political views were in line with the ideas of Charles of Valois. Their ideal of sovereign rule turned to the past, the model was St Louis, but, in addition to the book itself, the codex also contains other verse and musical compositions, illuminations and a tendentious chronicle of recent events. One can consider his knowledge of 14th century Bohemia under the reign of the Luxembourgs (e.g., the fresco in Strakonice, verses by Guillaume de Machaut).
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Count Charles of Valois, father of the Czech Queen Blanka and father-in-law of the future Czech king and Roman Emperor Charles IV, was a generous patron of the arts and literature. The literary works he commissioned, such as the glorifying epic ‚Charlemagne‘, whom the Count of Valois considered a forerunner and role model, also influenced his son-in-law. The article analyses two works written for Charles of Valois: the Roman de Fauvel (1317–1322) and the Masked Fox (Renard le Contrefait, 1319–1324). These works are considered ‚sovereign mirrors‘ of good and bad government. The text contains an intense criticism of idleness and adultery, a direct reaction to the affair of the royal princesses (the wives of the future French kings Louis X and Charles IV the Fair), which was discovered and severely punished in 1314. Charles of Valois used the event for his propagandistic purposes.
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