Live auction - fme_412182 - LOUIS XIV "THE SUN KING" Médaille de l’arrivée en France Jacques VI
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| End of the sale : | 30 January 2018 16:53:50 |
Type : Médaille de l’arrivée en France Jacques VI
Date: 1689
Mint name / Town : UK, Londres
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 59,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Engraver SMELTZING Johannes
Weight : 89 g.
Edge : lisse
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Intéressante médaille avec un défaut de métal au droit et une patine un preu hétérogène au homogène
Obverse
Obverse legend : IACOBUS II D. G. BRITANNIARUM IMPERATOR.
Obverse description : Buste à gauche de Jacques Stuart.
Reverse
Reverse legend : MAGNIS INTERDUM PARVA NOCENT - REGNO ABDICATO // 4 IAN 1689.
Reverse description : Renard tenant une torche dans la gueule, mettant le feu à l’arbre où est posé un aigle ; une colombe au-dessus du renard.
Commentary
Un exemplaire en argent, frappé avec les mêmes coins que notre médaille, a été vendu 3.000 US$ dans la vente TRITON XX.
Jacques Stuart (14 octobre 1633 - 16 septembre 1701) fut roi d'Angleterre et d'Irlande sous le nom de Jacques II et roi d'Écosse sous le nom de Jacques VII du 6 février 1685 jusqu'à son renversement lors de la Glorieuse Révolution trois ans plus tard.
Jacques était le second fils du roi Charles Ier et il accéda au trône à la mort de son frère Charles II. Son catholicisme, sa politique pro-française et ses ambitions absolutistes le rendirent très impopulaire et il dut affronter une opposition de plus en plus radicale de la part de l'élite religieuse et aristocratique anglaise. Lorsque sa seconde épouse Marie de Modène donna naissance à un fils, Jacques François Stuart, laissant présager la mise en place d'une dynastie catholique, les nobles anglais demandèrent l'aide du protestant Guillaume III d'Orange, son neveu qui avait épousé sa fille Marie. Ce dernier débarqua en Grande-Bretagne à la tête d'une armée hollandaise et Jacques II fut contraint de se réfugier en France. Le Parlement considéra que cette fuite équivalait à une abdication et accorda la couronne à Guillaume et Marie qui régnèrent conjointement à partir de 1689 sous les noms de Guillaume III et de Marie II. Jacques tenta de récupérer son trône en débarquant en Irlande mais ses partisans furent défaits lors de la bataille de la Boyne en juillet 1690. Il vécut le reste de sa vie en France soutenu par son cousin le roi Louis XIV..
A silver example, struck with the same dies as our medal, was sold for 3. 000 US$ in the TRITON XX sale.
James Stuart (14 October 1633 – 16 September 1701) was King of England and Ireland as James II and King of Scotland as James VII from 6 February 1685 until his overthrow in the Glorious Revolution three years later..
James was the second son of King Charles I and he succeeded to the throne on the death of his brother Charles II.. His Catholicism, pro-French policies, and absolutist ambitions made him very unpopular, and he faced increasingly radical opposition from the English religious and aristocratic elite.. When his second wife, Mary of Modena, gave birth to a son, James Francis Stuart, heralding the establishment of a Catholic dynasty, the English nobles sought help from the Protestant William III of Orange, her nephew who had married her daughter Mary.. The latter landed in Great Britain at the head of a Dutch army and James II was forced to take refuge in France. Parliament considered this flight to be an abdication and granted the crown to William and Mary, who reigned jointly from 1689 under the names William III and Mary II.. James attempted to reclaim his throne by landing in Ireland but his supporters were defeated at the Battle of the Boyne in July 1690.. He lived the rest of his life in France supported by his cousin King Louis XIV.
Jacques Stuart (14 octobre 1633 - 16 septembre 1701) fut roi d'Angleterre et d'Irlande sous le nom de Jacques II et roi d'Écosse sous le nom de Jacques VII du 6 février 1685 jusqu'à son renversement lors de la Glorieuse Révolution trois ans plus tard.
Jacques était le second fils du roi Charles Ier et il accéda au trône à la mort de son frère Charles II. Son catholicisme, sa politique pro-française et ses ambitions absolutistes le rendirent très impopulaire et il dut affronter une opposition de plus en plus radicale de la part de l'élite religieuse et aristocratique anglaise. Lorsque sa seconde épouse Marie de Modène donna naissance à un fils, Jacques François Stuart, laissant présager la mise en place d'une dynastie catholique, les nobles anglais demandèrent l'aide du protestant Guillaume III d'Orange, son neveu qui avait épousé sa fille Marie. Ce dernier débarqua en Grande-Bretagne à la tête d'une armée hollandaise et Jacques II fut contraint de se réfugier en France. Le Parlement considéra que cette fuite équivalait à une abdication et accorda la couronne à Guillaume et Marie qui régnèrent conjointement à partir de 1689 sous les noms de Guillaume III et de Marie II. Jacques tenta de récupérer son trône en débarquant en Irlande mais ses partisans furent défaits lors de la bataille de la Boyne en juillet 1690. Il vécut le reste de sa vie en France soutenu par son cousin le roi Louis XIV..
A silver example, struck with the same dies as our medal, was sold for 3. 000 US$ in the TRITON XX sale.
James Stuart (14 October 1633 – 16 September 1701) was King of England and Ireland as James II and King of Scotland as James VII from 6 February 1685 until his overthrow in the Glorious Revolution three years later..
James was the second son of King Charles I and he succeeded to the throne on the death of his brother Charles II.. His Catholicism, pro-French policies, and absolutist ambitions made him very unpopular, and he faced increasingly radical opposition from the English religious and aristocratic elite.. When his second wife, Mary of Modena, gave birth to a son, James Francis Stuart, heralding the establishment of a Catholic dynasty, the English nobles sought help from the Protestant William III of Orange, her nephew who had married her daughter Mary.. The latter landed in Great Britain at the head of a Dutch army and James II was forced to take refuge in France. Parliament considered this flight to be an abdication and granted the crown to William and Mary, who reigned jointly from 1689 under the names William III and Mary II.. James attempted to reclaim his throne by landing in Ireland but his supporters were defeated at the Battle of the Boyne in July 1690.. He lived the rest of his life in France supported by his cousin King Louis XIV.
Historical background
LOUIS XIV "THE SUN KING"
(05/14/1643-09/01/1715)
The reign of Louis XIV is the longest and most glorious in the history of France. Son of Louis XIII and Anne of Austria, born September 5, 1638, the third Bourbon king ascended the throne in 1643 and remained there for seventy-three years. He died on September 1, 1715, aged seventy-seven.. Between 1643 and 1661, under the regency of Anne of Austria and the ministry of Cardinal Mazarin, absolutism was built through combat: internal struggle against the Fronde, external struggle against Spain. The personal reign of Louis XIV began in 1661, when the young king decided to "govern by himself".. The absolute monarchy then reached its peak, the king being surrounded by a team of exceptional ministers: Le Tellier, Louvois, Colbert, Seignelay. This prosperous period ended during the 1680s, with the first setbacks, the revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685), the end of the great external successes and the gradual disappearance of the entourage of the first years (Colbert died in 1683 , Le Tellier in 1685, Seignelay in 1690, Louvois in 1691). The third and last part of the reign, between 1685 and 1715, is more difficult. The aging king finds no such collaborators. Glorious, this reign was first a warlike reign. Never has France known so many wars: the Thirty Years' War, completed with the Empire in 1648, with Spain only in 1659, War of Devolution (1667-1668), War of Holland (1672-1678), war with Spain (1684), War of the League of Augsburg (1688-1697), War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1713). She never knew more victories and more conquests: in 1648, the treaties of Westphalia gave her Alsace, in 1659, the peace of the Pyrenees, Artois and Roussillon; in 1668, by the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle, it reached Flanders; in 1678, by the Treaty of Nijmegen, Franche-Comté. In 1681, the king annexed Strasbourg. The following decades were less happy: in 1697 (Treaty of Ryswick), France ceded Luxembourg; in 1713 and 1714 (treaties of Utrecht and Rastadt), she abandoned Acadia, a prelude to the loss of America, fifty years later. The reign of Louis XIV therefore corresponds quite exactly to the age of French preponderance in Europe: France supplanted Spain; it will soon be supplanted by England, which holds the empire of the seas and the expanses of the New World. To the glory of the victorious and conquering king is added the glory of the king administrator, legislator, protector of arts and letters. Louis XIV and his ministers gave perfection to the construction of the monarchy: the legislation was reformed, the nobility subdued, the provinces tamed, heresy overthrown, artists and writers put themselves at the service of royal power. Lex una sub uno sole: "a single law under a single sun": everything must revolve around the star-master. The whole of Europe feels the attraction and prestige of Versailles. The reality is undoubtedly less brilliant than this flattering program: the royal administration remains too small to really frame the largest and most populous kingdom in Europe; particularisms resist; the Protestants leave to enrich the enemies of France. The fact remains that it is the image of the king of glory that has imposed itself in the memories, as Louis XIV had decided and wanted it.. There lies the true triumph of this prince: for France and for Europe, for the following century and for centuries to come, for contemporaries as for posterity, he was and remains the king par excellence.. Coins and medals, which restore to us the Jupiterian profile of the great monarch, are part of this will and this success.. Louis XIV paid particular attention to them: the Grand Siècle is also a great century of numismatics.
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