fjt_316730 - ENGLAND - KINGDOM OF ENGLAND - CHARLES I Naissance 1630

ENGLAND - KINGDOM OF ENGLAND - CHARLES I Naissance AU

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Type : Naissance

Date: 1630

Mint name / Town : Londres, La Tour

Metal : silver

Diameter : 30 mm

Orientation dies : 6 h.

Weight : 4,90 g.

Edge : cannelée

Rarity : R2

Coments on the condition:

Flan large. patine foncée

Obverse

Obverse legend : (ROSE) HACTENVS (ROSE) ANGLORVM (ROSE) NVLLI (TROIS POINTS EN TRIANGLE).

Obverse description : Croix formée par quatre écus festonnés : 1, écartelé de France-Angleterre, 2 d'Ecosse, 3 de France, 4 d'Irlande.

Reverse

Reverse legend : IN. HONOR.// CARO. PRINC.. MAG. BRI: FRA.// ET HIBERNAT. 29// MAII 1630.

Reverse description : en cinq lignes dans un écu festonné.

Reverse translation : En l’honneur de la naissance de Charles Prince de Grande-Bretagne, de France et d’Irlande.

Commentary

Charles est le fils ainé de Charles II et d'Henriette de France. Il est né le 29 mai 1630. A la mort de son père, il fut déclaré roi, mais il dut attendre 1660 pour se voir restauré par le Général Monk. Il mourut en 1685.
Nicolas Briot s'enfuit de France en 1625. Dès 1627, il grava des coins pour le compte de Charles Ier. Il devint Graveur Général en 1633. puis de 1635 à 1639, il fut l'adjoint du Graveur Général d'Ecosse. Il mourut à Oxford en 1646.

Historical background

ENGLAND - KINGDOM OF ENGLAND - CHARLES I

(1625-1649)

Charles I was the son of James I of England (1603-1625) (or James VI of Scotland, 1567-1625) and grandson of Mary Stuart who was murdered by her cousin Elizabeth of England at the Tower of London in 1587. Charles, born in 1600, succeeded his father Jacques VI in 1625, the year of his marriage to Henrietta of France, sister of Louis XIII. Charles had retained all his confidence in the Duke of Buckingham, his father's favourite. War soon broke out between the Duke and the Cardinal. In 1627, the English won several naval victories over the French fleet which was trying to establish the blockade of La Rochelle. In 1628, on October 28, the city capitulated. Meanwhile, Buckingham had been murdered. The King came into conflict with Parliament, which accused him of absolutism and favoring Catholics. Civil war broke out in 1642 and lasted seven years. The "Roundheads" supporters of Parliament and Cromwell triumphed over the "Horsemen", the King's party which was finally tried and executed in 1649. The republic was proclaimed and Cromwell was its first "Lord protector"..