bfe_1070239 - LORRAINE - BISHOPRIC OF METZ - JACQUES DE LORRAINE (62th bishop) Denier
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Price : 55.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2026)
Price : 55.00 €
Type : Denier
Date: c. 1240-1260
Date: s.m.
Mint name / Town : Metz
Metal : silver
Diameter : 12 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 0,70 g.
Coments on the condition:
Ce denier est frappé sur un flan assez large et est légèrement décentré. Patine grise. Monnaie présentant des faiblesses de frappe
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IACO-[...].
Obverse description : Buste de l'évêque, tenant une crosse, à gauche.
Reverse
Reverse legend : METENSIS.
Reverse description : Croix cantonnée aux 1 et 4 d'une étoile aux 2 et 3 d'un croissant.
Historical background
LORRAINE - BISHOPRIC OF METZ - JACQUES DE LORRAINE (62th bishop)
(1239-24/10/1260)
Jacques de Lorraine often had to oppose Mathieu II, Duke of Lorraine (1220-1251). Henri II, count of Bar and ally of the bishop, found death in the Holy Land in 1239, the year of the election of Jacques. The end of his episcopate was more peaceful. Mathieu II was succeeded by a twelve-year-old child on the ducal throne of Lorraine, Ferri III (1251-1303). But, from 1258, war was already brewing between the Bishop of Metz, the Count of Bar and the Duke of Lorraine. The next twenty years were to take place in continual quarrels of which Philippe de Florange (1260-1263), successor of Jacques, will be the victim.
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