While Charles did not actually witness the humiliation of the citizens, the seven-year-old boy would, undoubtedly, have heard and known sufficient of the cause of the festivals to be fully aware that the citizens who had dared defy his father were glad to buy back his smiles at any cost to their pride and purse. He would have known, too, that merchants from Venice, Genoa, Florence, and elsewhere joined the Bruges burghers in the welcome to the mollified overlord. It was a spectacle of the relations between a city and the ducal father not to be easily forgotten by the son. [Footnote 1: The indefatigable Gachard has published an itinerary of Philip the Good, so far as he could make it. _(Collection des voyages des souverains des Pays Bas_, i., 71.) Unfortunately, owing to the destruction of papers, only a few years are complete. Between 1428-1441, there is nothing. But the itinerary for 1441 and for other years shows how often the duke changed his residences. Sometimes he is accompanied by Madame de Bourgogne, sometimes by M. and Madame de Charolais.] [Footnote 2: It was also said that the woollen manufactures of Flanders were denoted by the emblem of the golden fleece.] [Footnote 3: Reiffenberg, _Histoire de l'Ordre de la Toison d'Or,_ p. xxi.] [Footnote 4: _ Hist. de I'Ordre,_ etc., p. i.] [Footnote 5: All the Burgundian embassies were not as patent to the public as were Isabella's. An item like the following from the accounts of 1448-49 whets the reader's curiosity: "To Jehan Lanternier, barber and varlet of the chamber, for delivering to a certain person for certain causes and for secret matters of which Monseigneur does not wish further declaration to be made, 53 pounds 17 sous." (Laborde _Les Ducs de Bourgogne_, etc., "Preuves," i. xiii.)] [Footnote 6: "Vingt-quatre chevaliers gentilshommes de nom et d'armes et sans reproches nés et procrées en léal mariage" _(see_ description of the first list).--_Hist. de l'Ordre,_ p. xxi.] [Footnote 7: Jacquemin Dauxonne, a merchant of Lombardy living at Dijon, received twenty-two francs and a half for a rich cloth of black silk draped about the baptismal font. Why mourning was used on this joyful occasion does not appear. (Laborde, i., 321.)] [Footnote 8: Summary of a register containing the acts of the Order of the Golden Fleece quoted in _Histoire de l'Ordre,_ pp. 12, 13.] [Footnote 9: St. Remy, _Chronique_, ii., 284. St. Remy is usually called _Toison d'Or._] [Footnote 10: His full name was Charles Martin. One tower alone remains of the palace where he was born.] [Footnote 11: _Hist, de l'Ordre,_ p. 13.] [Footnote 12: Selden _(Titles of Honor_, p. 457), however, says he knows not by what authority this statement is made and that he knows nothing of it. Seven is the earliest age mentioned by Gautier for receiving knighthood.] [Footnote 13: Deschamps, _OEuvres Complètes_, ii., 214.]