Armorial de Revel (Charles VII and Marie of Anjou; the city of Clermont)

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Around 1450 Charles I de Bourbon asked his herald of arms, Guillaume Revel to compose an armorial to list and describe the armories of the noble families of his principality. Each page was devoted to one fiefdom or family : along with the name of the fiefdom and the armories of the family was drawn the place were the family came from. It is the main originality of the document. By the exactitude and the precision of the drawing, even though it respects the convention of the time such as the oversize of the noble buildings, it is a unique document about civil, military and religious architecture at the end of the Middle Age, before their transformation during the Modern period.