LINKTV France 24 Mid-Day News April 23, 2014
Philips embalmed body was sealed in a lead coffin and carried in a funeral cortege whh took nearly seven weeks to wind the 250 miles from brussels to dijon. Accompanied by his sons, his chaplains, and members of his royal court, the hearse was drawn by six horses in black with the blue banners of burgundy fluttering at its corners. At dijon, it was received not only by the weeping clergy, but by 100 chosen townspeople and 100 poor, also clad in black at the dukes expense. As with the other great royal and ducal rituals of the later middle ages, death itself could be turned into public theater....