bfe_1055379 - DUCHY OF LORRAINE - CHARLES II Petit gros au chevalier
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Price : 18.00 €
Type : Petit gros au chevalier
Date: c. 1400-1430
Date: n.d.
Mint name / Town : Nancy
Metal : silver
Diameter : 25 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 1,81 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Petit gros frappé sur un flan assez large et légèrement irrégulier. Patine grise. Quelques petites faiblesses de frappe
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : KAROLVS* DVX - LOTHOR* Z* M', (M ONCIALE).
Obverse description : Le duc debout de face, couronné, tenant l'épée haute de la main droite, cotte à la bande aux trois alérions.
Obverse translation : (Charles, duc de Lorraine et...).
Reverse
Reverse legend : MON-ETA- *DE* N-ANC ; LÉGENDE EXTÉRIEURE : + BHDICTV'* SIT* NOME'* DNI'* NRI'* IHV'* XPI'*, (N ET M ONCIALES).
Reverse description : Croix pattée coupant la légende intérieure.
Reverse translation : (Monnaie de Nancy ; béni soit le nom de notre seigneur Jésus-Christ).
Historical background
DUCHY OF LORRAINE - CHARLES II
(1390-1431)
Charles (1364-1431), son of John I and Sophie of Württemberg, married Margaret of Bavaria (+1434). Godson of Charles V the Wise, he was brought up in Paris. He fought the Moors in Africa, then the Slavs in Lithuania in 1399. He supported his father-in-law Rupert, raised to imperial dignity and was the ally of Jean sans Peur against Louis d'Orléans who supported Wenceslas, Duke of Luxembourg and competitor of his father-in-law at the Empire. In Lorraine, he had to face the Burgundians, Messins and Strasbourgeois. He was appointed constable of France after the assassination of Bernard d'Armagnac. Having lost his sons, in 1419 he married his daughter Isabelle to René d'Anjou (1409-1480), heir to the duchy of Bar, thus preparing for the reunification of the two duchies in the same family. Charles died in 1431.
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