English: Statuts, Ordonnances et Armorial de l'Ordre de la Toison d'Or, Folio 043 verso (Statutes, Ordonnances and armorial of the Order of the Golden Fleece) .
w:Peter I, Count of Saint-Pol (1390-1433), Count of Brienne. Arms: Lion of Limburg. The cadet branch of the Dukes of Limburg, known as "Luxemburg" (
w:Henry V of Luxembourg (d.1281), the first
w:Count of Luxembourg, a younger son of
w:Waleran III of Limburg,
w:Duke of Limburg) substituted a field
barry of argent and azure to
difference his arms from his elder half-brother
Henry IV, Duke of Limburg (see
Category:Lion of Luxemburg in heraldry). With the extinction of the senior line (
w:Waleran IV, Duke of Limburg (d.1279))
w:Peter I, Count of Saint-Pol (1390-1433), Count of Brienne (a 6th generation descendant of
Henry V, Count of Luxembourg), assumed the original Limburg arms. (Source: Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire for the year 1855, pp.1-10
[1])
- Place of origin, date: Southern Netherlands; 1473. Added sections: Southern Netherlands; 1478 or shortly after and 1491 or shortly after
- Material: Vellum, ff. 86, 249x187 (167x106) mm, 23 lines, littera cursiva (lettre bourguignonne). French. Binding: 18th-century brown leather
- Decoration: 1 full-page miniature (170x115 mm) with border decoration; 92 miniatures (185/155x120/100 mm); 1 historiated initial (80x90 mm) with border decoration; decorated initials with border decoration (ff., Added section: miniatures ; 4 drawings for miniatures (not finished)
- Provenance: Presented in 1473 by Gilles Gobet, King of Arms of the Order of the Golden Fleece, to Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy and the other Knights during the Chapter of the Order held at Valenciennes; Treasure of the Golden Fleece, Brussls; taken away by the Treasurer C.-F. Humyn (d. 1735) or his daughter C.Ch. de Corte; by legacy to her daughter M.-L. de Corte, wife of Ph.-E. de Poederlé; purchased in 1781 at the Poederlé sale by G.-J- Gérard of Brussels; acquired in 1832 as part of the Gérard collection (no. A 27)