bfe_552917 - NAVARRE-BÉARN - ANTHONY OF BOURBON AND JOAN OF ALBRET Douzain
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Price : 120.00 €
Type : Douzain
Date: 1555
Metal : silver
Diameter : 23 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,17 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie frappée sur un flan irrégulier présentant un enfoncement à 6 heures au revers ainsi qu’un éclatement du flan. Patine hétérogène avec des taches noires
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient du trésor d’Iteuil (Vienne, sud de Poitiers) n°26
Obverse
Obverse legend : + ANT ET IOAN DEI G RR NA DD B.
Obverse description : Écu couronné écartelé au 1 de Navarre, aux 2 et 3 de Bourbon, aux 4 de Béarn.
Obverse translation : (Antoine et Jeanne, par la grâce de Dieu, roi et reine de Navarre, seigneurs de Béarn).
Reverse
Reverse legend : + GRATIA. DEI SVMVS QD SVMVS 1555.
Reverse description : Croix plaine alésée cantonnée aux 1 et 4 d’une A couronné, aux 2 et 3 d’une I couronné, dans un double quadrilobe orné de trèfles.
Reverse translation : (Par la grâce de Dieu, nous sommes ce que nous sommes).
Historical background
NAVARRE-BÉARN - ANTHONY OF BOURBON AND JOAN OF ALBRET
(1555-1562)
Jeanne d'Albret was born in 1528. She is the daughter of Henri d'Albret (1516-1555) and Marguerite d'Angoulême, the sister of King François I of France. The king married her by proxy to the Duke of Cleves but the marriage was dissolved after three years. In 1548, she married the Duke of Vendôme, Antoine de Bourbon, who was appointed Lieutenant General of the kingdom on the death of the King of France, François II, in 1560. Jeanne d'Albret and her children won the Court at the request of Catherine de' Medici, but having publicly declared herself close to Calvinist causes, she had to return to her kingdom of Navarre. After the death of her husband in 1562, she reigned alone over Navarre. In 1572, she again went to Court to negotiate the marriage of her son, Henri de Navarre (future Henri IV) to Marguerite, the sister of King Charles IX (Queen Margot). She died in Paris during these negotiations.
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