v08_1638 - ARDENNES - DUCHY OF BOUILLON - GODEFROY-MAURICE DE LA TOUR D'AUVERGNE Double de France
MONNAIES 8 (2000)
Starting price : 114.34 €
Estimate : 182.94 €
Realised price : 118.91 €
Starting price : 114.34 €
Estimate : 182.94 €
Realised price : 118.91 €
Type : Double de France
Date: 1683
Mint name / Town : Bouillon
Metal : copper
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,00 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie frappée sur un flan large et régulier. Jolie patine. Haut relief au droit, un peu plus faible au revers au niveau du buste
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : BVLLIONEVS. GODEF. D G. DVX.
Obverse description : Buste de Godefroy-Maurice à droite, tête nue à droite, cuirassé et drapé, portant une cravate.
Obverse translation : (Godefroy, par la grâce de Dieu, duc de Bouillon).
Reverse
Reverse legend : DOUBLE / .DE. / FRANC. C..
Reverse description : en trois lignes ; au-dessous, trois lis posés 2 et 1 ; au milieu une tour fleurdelisée et 16-83 accostant le lis inférieur.
Historical background
ARDENNES - DUCHY OF BOUILLON - GODEFROY-MAURICE DE LA TOUR D'AUVERGNE
(1676-1721)
Godefroy-Maurice de la Tour, son of Frédéric-Maurice de la Tour (1605-1652) and Éléonore Fébronie Catherine van der Berghet was born on June 21, 1636. He is Turenne's nephew. Since 1658, he has been Grand Chamberlain to Louis XIV and since April 19, 1662 the husband of Anne-Marie Mancini, Mazarin's niece. He had been tutelary duke of Bouillon since his father had ceded the principality of Sedan to the king to save himself during the conspiracy of Cinq-Mars in 1642. In 1675, when the king invaded Luxembourg and the bishopric of Bouillon, he constituted for Godefroy-Maurice a principality, the duchy of Bouillon, which kept it until his death in 1691. The possession of the duchy was confirmed in 1679 by the Treaty of Nijmegen. He died on July 26, 1721.
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