fme_560632 - FRANCIS III of LORRAINE Médaille, Mariage de François III de Lorraine et Marie-Thérèse d’Autriche
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Price : 80.00 €
Type : Médaille, Mariage de François III de Lorraine et Marie-Thérèse d’Autriche
Date: 1736
Metal : silver
Diameter : 27 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Engraver DONNER Matthias
Weight : 6,52 g.
Edge : lisse
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire ayant été nettoyé. Traces de frottement dans les champs. Défaut du métal à 3 heures au revers
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la Collection Terisse
Obverse
Obverse legend : FRANC. III. LOTHARINGIAE. THERES. AUSTRIAC.
Obverse description : Bustes accolés à gauche de François III et de Marie-Thérèse, signés M.D.
Obverse translation : François III de Lorraine et Thérèse d’Autriche.
Reverse
Reverse legend : VOTORUM. TANDEM. COMPOTES ; À L'EXERGUE : CELEB. NUP. DIE. XII. FEB. M. D. CCXXXVI.
Reverse description : La Religion debout à gauche, couronnant deux coeurs placés sur un autel.
Reverse translation : Ceux dont les voeux se sont enfin réalisés.
Commentary
Le 12 février 1736, le mariage de François III est célébré avec Marie-Thérèse d'Autriche dont il deviendra le prince consort. Matthias Donner officiant à la cour de Vienne en 1736, cette médaille fut très probablement frappée à la Monnaie impériale de Vienne..
On February 12, 1736, Francis III married Maria Theresa of Austria, becoming her Prince Consort. As Matthias Donner officiated at the court of Vienna in 1736, this medal was most likely struck at the Imperial Mint in Vienna.
On February 12, 1736, Francis III married Maria Theresa of Austria, becoming her Prince Consort. As Matthias Donner officiated at the court of Vienna in 1736, this medal was most likely struck at the Imperial Mint in Vienna.
Historical background
FRANCIS III of LORRAINE
François-Stéphane, Duke of Lorraine was born in 1708, he is the son of the Duke of Lorraine Léopold. He was raised in Vienna in the company of the future Empress Marie-Thérèse whom he married in 1736. By the Treaty of Vienna which ended the War of the Polish Succession, he ceded Lorraine to Stanislas Lesczynski, father-in-law of Louis XV in exchange for the Grand Duchy of Tuscany. On the death of Emperor Charles VI, he disputed the imperial crown with Charles VII, supported by France, but only succeeded in gaining recognition in 1745. Mediocre, he reigned in the shadow of Marie-Thérèse, daughter of the late Emperor Charles VI who had no male child, and gave him little support. He left sixteen children including Joseph II of Austria, Leopold II of Tuscany and Marie-Antoinette.
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