Louis of Bourbon became Prince-Bishop of Liège in 1456 through naked dynastic intervention — Philip the Good of Burgundy forced his nephew into the see over local opposition. The arrangement bred resentment for two decades until it exploded: in 1468, the city of Liège rose in revolt and was subsequently sacked by Charles the Bold with such thoroughness that contemporaries compared it to the destruction of a classical city. Louis survived, ruling a gutted diocese, and these stivers were struck during the uneasy years when Liège was slowly rebuilding under effective Burgundian suzerainty.
The narrow date range — 1476 to 1479 — ends just before Louis was murdered by his own subjects in 1482.
Louis of Bourbon became Prince-Bishop of Liège in 1456 through naked dynastic intervention — Philip the Good of Burgundy forced his nephew into the see over local opposition. The arrangement bred resentment for two decades until it exploded: in 1468, the city of Liège rose in revolt and was subsequently sacked by Charles the Bold with such thoroughness that contemporaries compared it to the destruction of a classical city. Louis survived, ruling a gutted diocese, and these stivers were struck during the uneasy years when Liège was slowly rebuilding under effective Burgundian suzerainty.
The narrow date range — 1476 to 1479 — ends just before Louis was murdered by his own subjects in 1482.