Groot - David van Bourgondie, Deventer

David of Burgundy, illegitimate son of Philip the Good, was appointed Bishop of Utrecht in 1456 after years of factional struggle over the see — a conflict that had produced rival claimants, open warfare, and direct intervention by the Burgundian court. His coinage reflects his unusual position: a legitimized bastard of the ruling dynasty using episcopal authority to extend Burgundian monetary influence into the ecclesiastical territories of the northern Low Countries. The Deventer mint operated under tense conditions throughout his episcopate, as urban resistance to Burgundian encroachment remained a persistent political reality.