fjt_04407 - ANJOU - GENTRY 1785
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Obverse
Obverse legend : ANS RENE. BUCHER. ECUYER. MAIRE. 1785.
Obverse description : Écu aux armes de René Bucher.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ASSIDVIS CONCILIIS À L'EXERGUE: MAIRIE D'ANGERS.
Reverse description : Écu aux armes d'Angers.
Reverse translation : Pour ceux qui sont assidus aux assemblées.
Commentary
Anselme René, Sieur de Chauvigné et de la Violette, fut conseiller du Roi et maître particulier des Eaux et Forêts de l'Anjou.
Anselme René, Lord of Chauvigné and of La Violette, was advisor to the King and special master of the Waters and Forests of Anjou
Anselme René, Lord of Chauvigné and of La Violette, was advisor to the King and special master of the Waters and Forests of Anjou
Historical background
ANJOU - GENTRY
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Anjou was formed into a county in 878 for Ingelger, founder of the Angevin dynasty from which came the Plantagenets and the English kings from Henry II. In 1203, the county was confiscated but it was given by will to Charles of Anjou, brother of Saint Louis in 1246. Thereafter, the matrimonial alliances of the princes of Anjou allowed the house to reign in different places in Europe : Naples, Hungary, Tarente, etc. In 1328, Anjou was again united to the crown by Philippe VI of Valois but again became a duchy in 1360 for the second son of Jean le Bon. The last descendant of this family, King René, died in 1481 and Anjou was definitively attached to the Crown in 1482, even if the title was still carried by several princes of the blood, such as the future Philippe V of Spain..
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