bfe_331940 - FLANDERS - COUNTY OF FLANDERS - CHARLES THE BOLD Gros
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Item sold on our e-shop (2014)
Price : 70.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2014)
Price : 70.00 €
Type : Gros
Date: 1468-1474
Date: n.d.
Mint name / Town : Bruges
Metal : billon
Diameter : 23,5 mm
Orientation dies : 4 h.
Weight : 1,59 g.
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie frappée sur un flan court, irrégulier et décentré. Des faiblesses de frappe
Obverse
Obverse legend : + KAROLVS: DEI: GRA: DVX: B’G’: CO: FL.
Obverse description : Champ écartelé de Bourgogne.
Obverse translation : (Charles, par la grâce de Dieu, duc de Bourgogne, comte de Flandre).
Reverse
Reverse legend : + MOHE-TA: N’A: - COMIT: - FLAD.
Reverse description : Croix, dont le cœur en forme de losange évidé porte un lion, cantonnée aux 1 et 4 d'un lion grimpant, aux 2 et 3 d'un lis.
Reverse translation : (Monnaie nouvelle du comté de Flandre).
Historical background
FLANDERS - COUNTY OF FLANDERS - CHARLES THE BOLD
(06/15/1467-01/5/1477)
Charles (1433-1477) was the son of Philip the Good and Isabella of Portugal. He first married Catherine of France (1428-1446) in 1440, then Isabelle de Bourbon in 1454, finally Marguerite of York, sister of Edward IV, in 1468. He succeeded his father on June 15, 1467. Charles sequesters Louis XI at the Péronne interview and accuses him of treason. The king submits. Charles helps his brother-in-law Édouard to reconquer his kingdom in 1471. He besieges Beauvais in July 1472 (heroic resistance from Jeanne Huchette), but has to lift the siege. He then tries to recreate a kingdom of Lotharingia with the help of Emperor Frederick III. It's a fail. Charles unsuccessfully besieged Cologne in 1475. He then threw himself on the Lorraine of René II and took Nancy on September 30. Charles was defeated by the Swiss on June 21, 1476 at Murten. Charles was killed besieging Nancy on January 5, 1477. His daughter Marie, born in 1457, succeeded him.
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