v22_0014 - BRITTANY - DUCHY OF BRITTANY - ANONYMOUS Denier

BRITTANY - DUCHY OF BRITTANY - ANONYMOUS Denier VF

MONNAIES 22 (2005)
Starting price : 30.00 €
Estimate : 60.00 €
Realised price : 65.00 €
Number of bids : 12
Maximum bid : 80.00 €

Type : Denier

Date: c. 1186-1206

Mint name / Town : Rennes

Metal : silver

Diameter : 19 mm

Orientation dies : 3 h.

Weight : 0,96 g.

Coments on the condition:

Ce denier est frappé sur un flan large, présentant une petite irrégularité à 1 heure au droit. La croix du revers apparaît en négatif au droit. Une légère patine grise le recouvre

Catalogue references :

Bd.29 - PA.291-302 - NP.10/65

Obverse

Obverse legend : + DVX BRITANE.

Obverse description : Croix ancrée.

Obverse translation : (Duc des Bretons).

Reverse

Reverse legend : + REDONIS CIVI.

Reverse description : Croix.

Reverse translation : (Cité de Rennes).

Historical background

BRITTANY - DUCHY OF BRITTANY - ANONYMOUS

(1186-1206)

Geoffroy, eldest son of Henry II Plantagenet, married Constance, daughter of Conan IV (1156-1169). Geoffroy is invested with Brittany in 1181. He revolts against his father and seeks the support of Philippe II but dies in 1186. Henri II is regent in Brittany until 1189. Constance becomes regent for his son Arthur. The death of Richard Coeur de Lion in 1199 reignites the war. Arthur was assassinated in 1203 at the instigation of his uncle, Jean-sans-Terre. Philippe takes advantage of this event to place the continental provinces of the Angevins under sequestration. In 1203, Guy de Thouars, who married Constance for the third time, was baillister for Alix, Constance's daughter. In 1206, Philippe Auguste dismissed the regent and married the young Alix to Pierre de Dreux dit Mauclerc, great-grandson of Louis VI. He was invested with the duchy in 1213.