fjt_089676 - FLANDERS - COUNTY OF FLANDERS - CHARLES THE BOLD Jeton de compte, pour CHARLES LE TÉMÉRAIRE n.d.

FLANDERS - COUNTY OF FLANDERS - CHARLES THE BOLD Jeton de compte, pour CHARLES LE TÉMÉRAIRE VF

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Type : Jeton de compte, pour CHARLES LE TÉMÉRAIRE

Date: n.d.

Metal : bronze

Diameter : 24,30 mm

Orientation dies : 11 h.

Weight : 3,94 g.

Coments on the condition:

Échancrure du flan à dix heures au droit et une usure régulière sinon un bel exemplaire sur un flan assez épais. Patine noire dans les champs

Catalogue references :

LT./Rou.- - R&H.p. 105 6

Obverse

Obverse legend : + GARDES DE FAILR FETS P’.

Obverse description : Écu parti de Flandre et de France.

Reverse

Reverse legend : (À 9 H.) . DOM . / . INV . / . SVO . /. BICE ..

Reverse description : Croix évidée en quadrilatère arqué, fleurdelisée, cantonnée de quatre fleurs de lis et centrée d’une fleur de lis, et coupant la légende en quatre parties.

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.