Editing Charles the Bold (section)

=== Ascension ===
[[File:Charles le Téméraire en tenue de deuil noire.jpg|thumb|Charles the Bold in mourning attire after the death of Philip the Good. [[Georges Chastellain]] stands on the left with greying hair and carrying a book. Illumination from a manuscript of Chastellain's Chronicle of the Dukes of Burgundy]]

On 12 June 1467, Philip the Good suddenly fell ill.{{Sfn|Taylor|2002|p=188}} For the next few days, he could hardly breathe and constantly vomited. Charles was summoned from Ghent to immediately come to his father.{{Sfn|Taylor|2002|p=189}} By the time he arrived, Philip had fallen unconscious and was struggling to breathe; he died on 15 June.{{Sfn|Taylor|2002|p=189}} Charles arranged for his father's funeral to be held in [[St. Donatian's Cathedral]]; the funeral was attended by 1200 persons from both Charles's and Philip's households. The cathedral was lit by 1400 candles which heated the inside of the church so much that holes had to be made in the windows to cool the air.{{Sfn|Vaughan|Paravicini|2002|pp=1–2}} Charles showed extreme emotions during the funeral: he shook, trembled, pulled his hair, and kept shouting and crying. The Court Chronicler, Georges Chastellain, doubted the sincerity of Charles's distress, expressing astonishment that he could show such emotion.{{Sfn|Van Loo|2021|p=386}}

Fourteen days later, Charles officially became the Duke of Burgundy. In celebration, he paraded through the city of Ghent on 28 June 1467, emulating Caesar.{{Sfn|Van Loo|2021|p=387}} This [[Royal entry|Joyous Entry]] caused an uproar in the city.{{Sfn|Haemers|2011|p=449}} The people demanded an end to the humiliating penalties imposed on them after the revolt of 1449.{{Sfn|Blockmans|Pervenier|1999|p=130}} Charles left the city with his daughter, the ten-year-old Mary, and the treasure kept by Philip the Good in the [[Prinsenhof (Ghent)|Prinsenhof]] of Ghent.{{Sfn|Van Loo|2021|p=391}} The following January, Charles coerced the mayors of Ghent into asking for his pardon. Then, he abolished their governmental rights and announced that only he could appoint the town government, in contravention of [[Philip IV of France|Philip IV]]'s constitution of 1301.{{Sfn|Nicholas|2014|p=392}}