bry_296608 - CHARLES X, CARDINAL OF BOURBON Double tournois, type de Troyes 1592 Troyes
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Price : 60.00 €
Type : Double tournois, type de Troyes
Date: 1592
Mint name / Town : Troyes
Quantity minted : 112710
Metal : copper
Diameter : 20 mm
Orientation dies : 8 h.
Weight : 2,73 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Flan court
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : CHARLES. X. R. [DE.] FRANCE. - S, (LÉGENDE COMMENÇANT À 6 HEURES).
Obverse description : Buste de Charles X à gauche, couronné.
Obverse translation : (Charles X, roi de France).
Reverse
Reverse legend : + DOVBLE. TOVRNOIS (MM) 1592.
Reverse description : Trois lis posés 2 et 1.
Historical background
CHARLES X, CARDINAL OF BOURBON
(02/08/1589-9/05/1590)
Charles X, uncle and godfather of Henri IV and first cousin of François de Lorraine, was born in 1523. Cardinal and papal legate in Avignon from 1565 to 1590, it was he who had blessed the marriage of Marguerite de Valois and Henri IV on the eve of Saint-Barthélemy. On the death of the Duke of Alençon, last brother of Henry III, he was recognized by the League and by Philip II of Spain as heir presumptive to the crown. Recognized by Henri, in 1588, as his closest relative, he was arrested at Blois on December 23, 1588 while the Guises were being assassinated. He was proclaimed king by the Leaguers after the murder of Henri III on August 2, 1589 but died a prisoner at Fontenay-le-Comte on May 9, 1590..
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