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Hugo van der Goes, who lived between 1430/1440 and 1482 in the Low Countries, was one of the most significant and original Flemish painters of the late 15th. century. Life Hugo van der Goes was born in or around Ghent, but nothing is known about his life before 1467. In 1467 he became a master in the painter's guild of Ghent. His sponsors were Joos van Wassenhove, master painter in Ghent, and Daneel Ruthaert. In 1468 Hugo van der Goes was asked by the city of Ghent to execute some works in connection with the grant of the Great Indulgence of the city. On 18 October 1468, he and other members of the Ghent's painters guild hosted painters from Tournai to celebrate St. Luke's day together and St. Luke was the patron saint of the painters. At the Burgundian Court In 1468 Hugo van der Goes was also in Bruges, there he made the decorations for the wedding of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy and Margaret of York, sister of the King of England. Fr

On 2 June 1202 a noble birth took place at Ghent. The baby was a girl, who received the name Margaret. Family Her father was Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders and Hainaut. Margaret 's mother was Marie of Champagne. Baldwin IX left the County of Flanders for the Fourth Crusade, before Margaret was born. In 1204, he even became the first Latin Emperor. The capital of the Latin Emperor was Constantinople. That's why Margaret was often called Margaret of Constantinople.  Her mother, on the other hand, Marie of Champagne was a granddaughter of King Louis VII of France and Eleanor of Aquitaine.  Youth When Margaret's mother died in 1404 and her father the next year, she and her sister, Joan, remained under the guardianship of their uncle: Philip of Namur. Soon he transferred the girls to King Philip II of France. Love and Marriage In 1211, Enguerrand III of Coucy offers to the King the sum of  50,000 Livres to marry Joan, while h