fjt_743052 - METALLIC SERIES OF THE KINGS OF FRANCE Règne de ROBERT LE PIEUX - 36 - Émission de Louis XVIII n.d.
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Type : Règne de ROBERT LE PIEUX - 36 - Émission de Louis XVIII
Date: n.d.
Metal : brass
Diameter : 32 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 12,42 g.
Edge : cannelée
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Flanc fissuré
Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant de la Collection MARINECHE
Obverse
Obverse legend : ROBERT ROY DE FRANCE.
Obverse description : Buste imaginaire couronné et drapé à droite.
Reverse
Reverse legend : 36 - NÉ 971* - SUCCEDE 996 - CLEMENCE SANS EXEMPLE 1025 - FONDATION DE PLUSIEURS EGLISES - MORT 1031* - TROISIEME RACE / P..
Reverse description : en huit lignes, deuxième coin.
Commentary
Robert II de France, surnommé Robert le Pieux est né à Orléans vers 972 et est mort au château de Melun le 20 juillet 1031. Fils d’Hugues Capet et de son épouse Adélaïde d'Aquitaine, il est le deuxième roi franc de la dynastie capétienne. Il règne de 996 à 1031 et est ainsi l'un des souverains de l’an mil.
Associé dès 987 à la royauté, il assiste son père sur les questions militaires (avec le siège par deux fois, en 988 et 991 de Laon). Sa solide instruction, assurée par Gerbert d'Aurillac à Reims, lui permet de s’occuper des questions religieuses dont il devient rapidement le garant (il dirige le concile de Verzy en 991 et celui de Chelles en 994). Poursuivant l’œuvre politique de son père, après 996, il parvient à maintenir l’alliance avec la Normandie et l’Anjou et à contenir les ambitions d'Eudes II de Blois.
Au prix d’une longue lutte débutée en avril 1003, il conquiert le duché de Bourgogne qui aurait dû lui revenir en héritage à la mort, sans descendance directe, de son oncle Henri Ier de Bourgogne, mais que ce dernier avait transmis à son beau-fils Otte-Guillaume.
Pour la suite de la biographie, voir http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_II_de_France.
Robert II of France, nicknamed Robert the Pious, was born in Orléans around 972 and died at the Château de Melun on July 20, 1031.. Son of Hugh Capet and his wife Adelaide of Aquitaine, he was the second Frankish king of the Capetian dynasty.. He reigned from 996 to 1031 and is thus one of the sovereigns of the year 1000.
Associated with royalty from 987, he assisted his father on military matters (with the siege of Laon twice, in 988 and 991). His solid education, provided by Gerbert d'Aurillac in Reims, allowed him to deal with religious questions, for which he quickly became the guarantor (he led the Council of Verzy in 991 and that of Chelles in 994).. Continuing his father's political work, after 996 he managed to maintain the alliance with Normandy and Anjou and to contain the ambitions of Eudes II of Blois.
At the cost of a long struggle that began in April 1003, he conquered the Duchy of Burgundy, which should have come to him as an inheritance upon the death, without direct descendants, of his uncle Henry I of Burgundy, but which the latter had passed on to his son-in-law Otto-William..
For the rest of the biography, see http://fr. Wikipedia. org/wiki/Robert_II_of_France
Associé dès 987 à la royauté, il assiste son père sur les questions militaires (avec le siège par deux fois, en 988 et 991 de Laon). Sa solide instruction, assurée par Gerbert d'Aurillac à Reims, lui permet de s’occuper des questions religieuses dont il devient rapidement le garant (il dirige le concile de Verzy en 991 et celui de Chelles en 994). Poursuivant l’œuvre politique de son père, après 996, il parvient à maintenir l’alliance avec la Normandie et l’Anjou et à contenir les ambitions d'Eudes II de Blois.
Au prix d’une longue lutte débutée en avril 1003, il conquiert le duché de Bourgogne qui aurait dû lui revenir en héritage à la mort, sans descendance directe, de son oncle Henri Ier de Bourgogne, mais que ce dernier avait transmis à son beau-fils Otte-Guillaume.
Pour la suite de la biographie, voir http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_II_de_France.
Robert II of France, nicknamed Robert the Pious, was born in Orléans around 972 and died at the Château de Melun on July 20, 1031.. Son of Hugh Capet and his wife Adelaide of Aquitaine, he was the second Frankish king of the Capetian dynasty.. He reigned from 996 to 1031 and is thus one of the sovereigns of the year 1000.
Associated with royalty from 987, he assisted his father on military matters (with the siege of Laon twice, in 988 and 991). His solid education, provided by Gerbert d'Aurillac in Reims, allowed him to deal with religious questions, for which he quickly became the guarantor (he led the Council of Verzy in 991 and that of Chelles in 994).. Continuing his father's political work, after 996 he managed to maintain the alliance with Normandy and Anjou and to contain the ambitions of Eudes II of Blois.
At the cost of a long struggle that began in April 1003, he conquered the Duchy of Burgundy, which should have come to him as an inheritance upon the death, without direct descendants, of his uncle Henry I of Burgundy, but which the latter had passed on to his son-in-law Otto-William..
For the rest of the biography, see http://fr. Wikipedia. org/wiki/Robert_II_of_France
Historical background
METALLIC SERIES OF THE KINGS OF FRANCE
This series was engraved by Thomas Bernard and is interrupted, for this author, with the token of Louis XIV. The following tokens are engraved by Nicolas Gatteaux for Louis XV, Duvivier for Louis XVI, Puymaurin and Gayrard for Louis XVII, Puymaurin and Depaulis for Louis XVIII. The series is often attributed to Jean Dassier on the faith of Forrer but he corrects his assertion in his volume VIII and confirms the archives of the Monnaie de Paris which specify that the series was commissioned by Monsieur de Launay. There are different issues, in copper or brass, of varying weights but consistent by series, the reverse dies are sometimes varied. The classification of kings is done according to ancient usage, in three successive races. We note the existence of a very rare token explaining the abbreviations that we have only seen in a brass series. The packaging of this series was in a wooden tube. It is of course very difficult to reconstruct it and it should be noted that the different tokens have very different rarities, having probably been bought piecemeal by the public, favoring the good kings. There is at least one series in silver, possibly apocryphal, completed up to Napoleon III with tokens for all successive regimes, including the Revolution and Napoleon I, see MONNAIES 28, n° 1395. This series is documented in a small book by Philippe Marinèche from whoever can acquire it, contact phmarineche@aol. com.
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