v22_0647 - BURGUNDY - DUCHY OF BURGUNDY - CHARLES THE BOLD or THE RECKLESS Engrogne

BURGUNDY - DUCHY OF BURGUNDY - CHARLES THE BOLD or THE RECKLESS Engrogne XF

MONNAIES 22 (2005)
Starting price : 50.00 €
Estimate : 80.00 €
Realised price : 109.00 €
Number of bids : 12
Maximum bid : 130.00 €

Type : Engrogne

Date: n.d.

Mint name / Town : Auxonne

Metal : billon

Diameter : 21,5 mm

Orientation dies : 3 h.

Weight : 1,18 g.

Coments on the condition:

Cette engrogne est frappée sur un flan assez large et légèrement irrégulier. Exemplaire recouvert d’une patine foncée et présentant des reliefs nets. La croix du revers apparaît légèrement en négatif au droit

Catalogue references :

Bd.- - PA.5815 (135/3) - Dumas16/6-1

Obverse

Obverse legend : + KLS: DVX: ET: COMES: BVR.

Obverse description : Champ écartelé aux sept quartiers.

Obverse translation : (Charles, duc et comte de Bourgogne).

Reverse

Reverse legend : + ANSERNA: DE: AVSONA.

Reverse description : Croix cantonnée aux 1 et 4 d'un lis, aux 2 et 3 d’un lion.

Reverse translation : (Engrogne d’Auxonne).

Commentary

Exemplaire de même coin de droit que l’exemplaire du Musée d’Auxerre (Gariel 120).

Historical background

BURGUNDY - DUCHY OF BURGUNDY - CHARLES THE BOLD or THE RECKLESS

(06/15/1467-01/5/1477)

Charles (1433-1477) was the son of Philip the Good and Isabella of Portugal. He first married Catherine of France (1428-1446) in 1440, then Isabelle de Bourbon in 1454, finally Marguerite of York, sister of Edward IV, in 1468. He succeeded his father on June 15, 1467. Charles sequesters Louis XI at the Péronne interview and accuses him of treason. The King submits. Charles helps his brother-in-law Édouard to reconquer his kingdom in 1471. He besieges Beauvais in July 1472 (heroic resistance from Jeanne Huchette), but has to lift the siege. He then tries to recreate a kingdom of Lotharingia with the help of Emperor Frederick III. It's a fail. Charles unsuccessfully besieged Cologne in 1475. He then threw himself on the Lorraine of René II and took Nancy on September 30. Charles was defeated by the Swiss on June 21, 1476 at Murten. Charles was killed besieging Nancy on January 5, 1477. His daughter Marie, born in 1457, succeeded him.