E-auction 310-228747 - fme_441975 - BELGIUM - KINGDOM OF BELGIUM - LEOPOLD I 25e aniversaire de l’élection du roi
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| Estimate : | 30 € |
| Price : | 21 € |
| Maximum bid : | 50 € |
| End of the sale : | 25 March 2019 18:35:00 |
| bidders : | 2 bidders |
Type : 25e aniversaire de l’élection du roi
Date: 1856
Mint name / Town : Belgique
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 28,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 9,92 g.
Edge : cannelée
Coments on the condition:
Médaille avec une patine hétérogène un peu verte
Obverse
Obverse legend : XXI JUILL. MDCCCLVI.
Obverse description : Allégorie tourelée tenant une main de justice et une palme, assise face au buste du roi Léopold Ier.
Reverse
Reverse legend : XXV : / ANNIVERSAIRE / DE / L’INAUGURATION / DU ROI.
Reverse description : Légende en 5 lignes dans une couronne de lauriers.
Commentary
Léopold Ier de Belgique (en néerlandais, Leopold I van België), prince de Saxe-Cobourg et Gotha, duc en Saxe, né prince Léopold Georges Christian Frédéric de Saxe-Cobourg-Saalfeld à Cobourg (en Saxe-Cobourg-Saalfeld) le 16 décembre 1790 et mort le 10 décembre 1865 au palais de Laeken (en Belgique), est un prince allemand de la maison de Saxe-Cobourg et Gotha devenu le premier roi des Belges.
Le Congrès belge qui le connaît pour son passé militaire (il s'est battu contre Napoléon), propose alors à Léopold de devenir roi des Belges. Le 4 juin 1831, Léopold est élu par 153 voix sur 196 votants. Il accepte à la condition que soient réglées les frontières et les dettes de la Belgique. Il obtient de la conférence de Londres le traité des XVIII articles, accepté par le congrès le 9 juillet 1831. Roi officiellement depuis le 26 juin 1831, c'est le 21 juillet suivant qu'il prête serment sur les marches de l'église Saint-Jacques-sur-Coudenberg de Bruxelles..
Leopold I of Belgium (in Dutch, Leopold I van België), Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duke in Saxony, born Prince Leopold George Christian Frederick of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld in Coburg (in Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld) on December 16, 1790 and died on December 10, 1865 at the Palace of Laeken (in Belgium), was a German prince of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha who became the first King of the Belgians. The Belgian Congress, which knew him for his military past (he fought against Napoleon), then proposed to Leopold to become King of the Belgians. On June 4, 1831, Leopold was elected by 153 votes out of 196 voters. He accepted on the condition that the borders and debts of Belgium be settled. He obtained from the London conference the Treaty of the XVIII Articles, accepted by the congress on July 9, 1831. Officially king since June 26, 1831, it was on the following July 21 that he took the oath on the steps of the Saint-Jacques-sur-Coudenberg church in Brussels.
Le Congrès belge qui le connaît pour son passé militaire (il s'est battu contre Napoléon), propose alors à Léopold de devenir roi des Belges. Le 4 juin 1831, Léopold est élu par 153 voix sur 196 votants. Il accepte à la condition que soient réglées les frontières et les dettes de la Belgique. Il obtient de la conférence de Londres le traité des XVIII articles, accepté par le congrès le 9 juillet 1831. Roi officiellement depuis le 26 juin 1831, c'est le 21 juillet suivant qu'il prête serment sur les marches de l'église Saint-Jacques-sur-Coudenberg de Bruxelles..
Leopold I of Belgium (in Dutch, Leopold I van België), Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duke in Saxony, born Prince Leopold George Christian Frederick of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld in Coburg (in Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld) on December 16, 1790 and died on December 10, 1865 at the Palace of Laeken (in Belgium), was a German prince of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha who became the first King of the Belgians. The Belgian Congress, which knew him for his military past (he fought against Napoleon), then proposed to Leopold to become King of the Belgians. On June 4, 1831, Leopold was elected by 153 votes out of 196 voters. He accepted on the condition that the borders and debts of Belgium be settled. He obtained from the London conference the Treaty of the XVIII Articles, accepted by the congress on July 9, 1831. Officially king since June 26, 1831, it was on the following July 21 that he took the oath on the steps of the Saint-Jacques-sur-Coudenberg church in Brussels.
Historical background
BELGIUM - KINGDOM OF BELGIUM - LEOPOLD I
(4/06/1831-10/12/1865)
Leopold (16/12/1790-10/12/1865) is the son of François de Saxe-Cobourg and the uncle of Victoria I. He fights Napoleon in the Russian army. Naturalized English in 1816, he married Charlotte of Hanover and found himself a widower the following year. Léopold had just refused the crown of Greece when he was elected King of the Belgians on June 4, 1831. The following year, he married Louise d'Orléans (1812-1850), the daughter of Louis-Philippe. She gives him three children including Leopold II and Charlotte, the unfortunate wife of Maximilian of Austria, shot in Mexico. He is morganatically married to the actress Caroline Bauer from whom he must separate to marry the daughter of the King of the French. The London Conference of July 1831 settled territorial problems and the treaty of eighteen articles was accepted by the National Congress on July 9, 1831. Leopold was triumphantly welcomed on July 21, 1831. He had to fight against the Dutch army and received the nickname of "shield of Belgium", safeguarding the independence of the "flat country" against the Prussia of William I and the France of Napoleon III. He relies politically on England.
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