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Valois.svg|4. Charles de France<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">Count of Valois</span>
Valois.svg|4. Charles de France<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">Count of Valois</span>
D'Evreux.svg|5. Louis de France<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">Count of Evreux</span>
D'Evreux.svg|5. Louis de France<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">Count of Evreux</span>
Blank.svg|6. Unreadable<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;"></span>
Ravel-6.svg|6. Unreadable<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">Pictures show a hint of a quarterly shield with a lion top left<br> Possibly Alphonse de la Cerda?</span>
Capet_Bourbon.svg|7. Robert de France<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">Count of Clermont<br>Lord of Bourbon</span>
Capet_Bourbon.svg|7. Robert de France<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">Count of Clermont<br>Lord of Bourbon</span>
Dauphin_Auvergne_Gelre.svg|8. Robert III Dauphin<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">Dauphin d'Auvergne<br>Count of Clermont-Auvergne</span>
Dauphin_Auvergne_Gelre.svg|8. Robert III Dauphin<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">Dauphin d'Auvergne<br>Count of Clermont-Auvergne</span>

Revision as of 04:47, 8 October 2024

In the castle of Ravel, located in Auvergne, exists an aula decorated with a long fresco featuring the arms of various princes and local nobles.
Pierre Flotte (d.1302), councillor of Philippe IV le Bel, received the castle as a gift from the king in 1294.
The dating of these frescs are still in debate. It is most probable that Pierre Flote ordered them around 1300-1301, but his death on 11/07/1302 was premature to see them finished. The shield of Louis de France, as king of Navarre, seems a good candidate to date them after his mother's death in 1305. But his seal before that date already shows the mi-parti France-Navarra. A better candidate seems Othon comte de Bourgogne who is also present. He died 1303. This allows us to date the realization of those wall paintings between 1300 and 1303.