Blanc with shield - Philip III

Philip III — "Philip the Good" — ruled Burgundy during the period when the duchy functioned less as a French vassal and more as an independent northern European power, controlling the wealthy Low Countries and maintaining its own diplomatic corps. The blanc issues of his reign circulated across an unusually wide geographic zone as a result, turning up in hoards from Flanders to the Rhône valley.

His reign ended with his death in 1467, the same year his son Charles the Bold immediately pushed the duchy toward open confrontation with Louis XI — a conflict that would destroy Burgundian independence within a decade.