bfe_264122 - FLANDERS - COUNTY OF FLANDERS - CHARLES THE BOLD Double patard

FLANDERS - COUNTY OF FLANDERS - CHARLES THE BOLD Double patard XF

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Price : 120.00 €

Type : Double patard

Date: (1468-1474)

Date: n.d.

Mint name / Town : Bruges

Quantity minted : 7691527

Metal : billon

Millesimal fineness : 798 ‰

Diameter : 28 mm

Orientation dies : 11 h.

Weight : 3,13 g.

Coments on the condition:

Ce double gros est frappé sur un flan assez large, légèrement irrégulier et voilé. Exemplaire recouvert d’une patine grise hétérogène

Catalogue references :

Bd.2267 (4 f.) - GH.23/3 - NP.40/394 - AMVBH.27

Obverse

Obverse legend : + KAROLVS° DEI° GRA° DVX° BVR'G° CO'° FLA, (PONCTUATION PAR DEUX ANNELETS SUPERPOSÉS).

Obverse description : Écu écartelé, aux 1 et 4 de Bourgogne moderne, au 2 mi-parti de Bourgogne ancien et de Brabant, au 3 mi-parti de Bourgogne ancien et de Limbourg, sur le tout de Flandre.

Obverse translation : (Charles, par la grâce de Dieu, duc de Bourgogne, de Brabant et de Limbourg).

Reverse

Reverse legend : + SIT° NOMEH° DOMIHI° BENEDICTVM) (BRIQUET), (PONCTUATION PAR DEUX ANNELETS SUPERPOSÉS).

Reverse description : Croix fleuronnée avec un losange en cœur portant un lis.

Reverse translation : (Béni soit le nom du seigneur).

Historical background

FLANDERS - COUNTY OF FLANDERS - CHARLES THE BOLD

(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.