Philip the Good

American  

noun

1. 1396–1467, duke of Burgundy 1419–67.

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Philip the Good British  

noun

1. 1396–1467, duke of Burgundy (1419–67), under whose rule Burgundy was one of the most powerful states in Europe

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Philip the Good

One such example is a Book of Hours begun in 1376 in Paris for Philip the Bold of Burgundy, but completed for his grandson, Philip the Good, in 1451 in Brussels.

From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2016

By late 1508, Gossart was on his way to Rome, as part of a delegation headed by Philip of Burgundy, an illegitimate son of Philip the Good.

From New York Times ● Oct. 7, 2010

Carritt had concluded that it was a portrait painted around 1440 of Van der Weyden's patron, Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Bruges-Detroit show starts with Jan van Eyck, who was court painter and varlet de chambre to Philip the Good, and did as much as any man to change the history of painting.

From Time Magazine Archive

Philip the Good died in 1467, and was succeeded by his son, Charles the Bold, a man whose boldness was his only virtue.

From A History of Germany From the Earliest Times to the Present Day by Taylor, Bayard