Live auction - bfe_468136 - DOMBES - PRINCIPALITY OF DOMBES - LOUIS II DE MONTPENSIER Demi-teston

DOMBES - PRINCIPALITY OF DOMBES - LOUIS II DE MONTPENSIER Demi-teston F/VF

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F/VF

Estimate :	1 000 €
Price :	600 €
Maximum bid :	600 €
End of the sale :	06 March 2018 17:45:20
bidders :	2 bidders

Type : Demi-teston

Date: 1577

Mint name / Town : Trévoux

Metal : silver

Diameter : 26 mm

Orientation dies : 2 h.

Weight : 4,68 g.

Edge : lisse

Rarity : R3

Coments on the condition:

Ce teston est frappé sur un flan légèrement irrégulier et assez large. Exemplaire recouvert d’une patine grise portant de petites taches. Reliefs plus nets au revers qu’au droit

Catalogue references :

Bd.- - PA.- - Div./Db37

Obverse

Obverse legend : + LVDO. D. MONTISP. D. DOMBAR, (LÉGENDE COMMENÇANT À 6 HEURES).

Obverse description : Buste cuirassé de Louis II, barbu, avec col plat à gauche.

Obverse translation : (Louis, duc de Montpensier de Dombes).

Reverse

Reverse legend : + DNS. ADIVT. ET. REDEM. MEVS. 1577.

Reverse description : Écu couronné aux armes de Bourbon, accosté de deux lambdas couronnés.

Reverse translation : (Le Seigneur est mon soutien et mon rédempteur).

Commentary

Monnaie de la plus grande rareté, connu par Jean-Paul Divo par un seul autre exemplaire du Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon qui était réputé unique et qui a été frappé avec les mêmes coins de droit et de revers que cet exemplaire.

Historical background

DOMBES - PRINCIPALITY OF DOMBES - LOUIS II DE MONTPENSIER

(1560-1582)

On the death of Pierre de Bourbon in 1503, his daughter Suzanne (1491-1521) succeeded him as lord of Trévoux. She married Charles III Duke of Bourbon-Montpensier (1489-1527), son of Gilbert, Count of Montpensier. On the death of Anne de Beaujeu, daughter of Louis XI and wife of Pierre de Bourbon, in 1522, Louise de Savoie, mother of François I, claimed the Dombes heritage. Charles de Bourbon, constable of France, betrayed King François I to join Charles V and died besieging Rome in 1527. The seigneury of Dombes was given to Louise de Savoie and attached to the kingdom after Louise's death in 1531. In 1560, François II restores it to Louis II de Bourbon-Montpensier, son of Louise de Montpensier, (+1561) sister of Charles the constable of Bourbon, and erects the seigniory of Trévoux into a principality. The Bourbon-Montpensiers descend from Robert de Clermont, son of Saint-Louis. The Bourbon-Montpensier family will reign over the Dombes until 1693.