v22_0239 - AQUITAINE - DUCHY OF AQUITAINE - EDWARD I Obole au lion

AQUITAINE - DUCHY OF AQUITAINE - EDWARD I Obole au lion VF

MONNAIES 22 (2005)
Starting price : 70.00 €
Estimate : 140.00 €
unsold lot

Type : Obole au lion

Date: c. 1253-1274

Mint name / Town : Bordeaux

Metal : billon

Diameter : 15 mm

Orientation dies : 10 h.

Weight : 0,44 g.

Rarity : R1

Coments on the condition:

Cette obole est frappée sur un flan large laissant apparaître l’essentiel des grènetis extérieurs. Revers recouvert d’une patine foncée avec de petites taches vertes

Catalogue references :

Bd.475 (8 f.) - PA.2788 (60/12) - E.14b (R) - Elias34 (70 £)

Obverse

Obverse legend : + EVVARDVS FI:.

Obverse description : Léopard (ou lion) passant à gauche.

Obverse translation : (Édouard, fils).

Reverse

Reverse legend : + H REGIS [AN]GLIE:.

Reverse description : Croix.

Reverse translation : (d’Henri, roi d’Angleterre).

Commentary

Variété avec deux points en fin des légendes (cf. Elias 14 b et collection Elias 34).

Historical background

AQUITAINE - DUCHY OF AQUITAINE - EDWARD I

(1252-1307)

Édouard Plantagenêt (1239-1307), eldest son of Henri III (1216-1272) and Éléonore de Provence, was first Duke of Aquitaine (1252-1272) and married Éléonore de Castille who died in 1290. He married in second marriage to Marguerite de France, the daughter of Philippe III le Hardi (+1317). He paid homage for Guyenne and Aquitaine and recovered the territories lost to the Treaty of Paris in 1259. After the annexation of Wales, Edward I made his son Edward the first Prince of Wales, a title that later bore all heirs to the kingdom. Edward fought against the Scots and defeated them in 1296 and 1298. At the end of his reign, he had to deal with the rise of Robert Bruce (1306-1329). His other enemy was Philippe IV le Bel who tried to counter the influence of the Plantagenêts in Aquitaine. Philip's daughter Isabella married Edward's son, the future Edward II.