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DOI Artikel:Ratkowska, Paulina: A wooden relief of the XIVth century with the Royal Feast and "Navarre-France" coat of arms
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18860#0086
3. Tomb monument of Philippe IV Le Bel (detail) ; Pierre de Chelles and Jean d'Arras, ca 1300,
St Denis, Abbey Church (after J. Evans, Art in Mediaeval France)
(fig. 6). This constitute an irrefutable proof that our chest was commissioned by a person of the
Royal blood or that it was intended for such a person as a gift. For whom and when was the
Warsaw relief executed ?
The blazon with the "Navarre-France" coat of arms inclined Mr Neyman, the donor of the
relief, to accept the identification of the couple here represented as the King of France Philippe IV
Le Bel and his wife the Queen of Navarre — Jeanne de Champagne'. Philippe IV Le Bel was
the first French ruler who, thanks to the marriage to Jeanne de Champagne, the heiress of
Navarre, obtained the title of the King of Navarre, the title which for a longer time was joined
to the crown of France only as late as 1589 by Henry IV de Valois.
Our representation was recognized by Neyman (most probably after a notice of a French art
dealer) as an illustration of a historical event, namely, the act of the foundation in 1300 by
Philippe IV Le Bel of the Dominican Nunnery at Poissy, the locality placed along the way
leading from Paris to Rouen8. A similar representation of such a foundation act by the Royal
7. Neyman, op. cit., p. 22
8. Neyman, op. cit., the legend to the fig. 6 (with the date 1302)
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St Denis, Abbey Church (after J. Evans, Art in Mediaeval France)
(fig. 6). This constitute an irrefutable proof that our chest was commissioned by a person of the
Royal blood or that it was intended for such a person as a gift. For whom and when was the
Warsaw relief executed ?
The blazon with the "Navarre-France" coat of arms inclined Mr Neyman, the donor of the
relief, to accept the identification of the couple here represented as the King of France Philippe IV
Le Bel and his wife the Queen of Navarre — Jeanne de Champagne'. Philippe IV Le Bel was
the first French ruler who, thanks to the marriage to Jeanne de Champagne, the heiress of
Navarre, obtained the title of the King of Navarre, the title which for a longer time was joined
to the crown of France only as late as 1589 by Henry IV de Valois.
Our representation was recognized by Neyman (most probably after a notice of a French art
dealer) as an illustration of a historical event, namely, the act of the foundation in 1300 by
Philippe IV Le Bel of the Dominican Nunnery at Poissy, the locality placed along the way
leading from Paris to Rouen8. A similar representation of such a foundation act by the Royal
7. Neyman, op. cit., p. 22
8. Neyman, op. cit., the legend to the fig. 6 (with the date 1302)
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