Editing Philippe de Commines (section)

===Early life===
[[File:Coat of arms of Philippe de Commines.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|Coat of arms of Philippe de Commines.]]
'''Commines''' was born at [[Renescure]] (in what was then the [[county of Flanders]]), to an outwardly wealthy family. His parents were Colard van den Clyte (or ''de La Clyte'') and Marguerite d'Armuyden.<ref name="advent">Louis René Bréhier (1908). "[[wikisource:Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/Philippe de Commines|Philippe de Commines]]". In ''Catholic Encyclopedia''. '''4.''' New York: Robert Appleton Company.</ref> In addition to being ''seigneur'' of Renescure, Watten and Saint-Venant, Clyte became bailiff of Flanders for the Duke of Burgundy in 1436, and had been taken prisoner at the [[Battle of Agincourt]] in 1415. Philippe took his surname from a ''seigneurie'' on the river [[Lys (river)|Lys]] which had belonged to the family of his paternal grandmother, Jeanne de Waziers.<ref name = advent/> His paternal grandfather, also named Colard van den Clyte (d. 1404), had been governor first of [[Cassel, France|Cassel]] and then of [[Lille]]. However, the death of Commines' father in 1453 left him the orphaned owner of an estate saddled with enormous debts. In his teens he was taken into the care of [[Philip the Good of Burgundy|Philip the Good]] (1419–1467), Duke of Burgundy, who was his godfather. He fought at the [[Battle of Montlhéry]] in 1465 and the [[Battle of Brusthem]] in 1467 but in general seems to have kept a low profile.