bfe_258164 - DUCHY OF LORRAINE - CHARLES II Quart de gros
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Item sold on our e-shop (2012)
Price : 450.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2012)
Price : 450.00 €
Type : Quart de gros
Date: (1390-1431)
Date: n.d.
Mint name / Town : Nancy
Metal : silver
Diameter : 20,5 mm
Orientation dies : 2 h.
Weight : 0,75 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Ce quart de gros est frappé sur un flan assez large, échancré à 8 heures, cassé à 10 heures et légèrement voilé. Exemplaire nettoyé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : KAROLV-S° DVX° - LOTHOR’° M.
Obverse description : Le duc à cheval, galopant vers la gauche et levant son épée. Il est revêtu de son armure, couvert d’un heaume timbré d’une aigle essorante et tient un écu aux armes de Lorraine. La housse du cheval est décorée de deux bandes chargées de trois alérions.
Obverse translation : (Charles, duc de Lorraine et...).
Reverse
Reverse legend : *MONE-TA° FC-A° IN° N-ANCEI, (LES CÉSURES SE FONT PAR ROSE À CINQ PÉTALES).
Reverse description : Croix fleuronnée cantonnée de quatre trèfles ; en son centre, un alérion.
Reverse translation : (Monnaie frappée à Nancy).
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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