Iason nebo Gedeon jako inspirace pro Řád zlatého rouna?
Jason or Gedeon as Inspiration for the Golden Fleece?

Summary/Abstract: When Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, established the Order of the Golden Fleece at the occasion of his third marriage with Princess Isabella of Portugal in 1430, he gave no explanation why he chose this theme. However, the Burgundian dynasty loved the theme of the Argonauts. At the occasionof the proclamation of the Statutes of the Order in 1431, however, the first Chancellor of the Order, bishop Jehan Germain, identified the fleece with the fleece of the biblical judge Gideon (Judges 6, 37). From the chronicle of the Burgundian writer Olivier de la Marche we know that this was his owninterpretation. The article discusses the background of both interpretations and points toward how both interpretations emerged.

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