bfe_309831 - NAMUR - MARQUISATE OF NAMUR - GUI OF DAMPIERRE Esterlin

NAMUR - MARQUISATE OF NAMUR - GUI OF DAMPIERRE Esterlin AU

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Price : 225.00 €

Type : Esterlin

Date: (1264-1297)

Date: n.d.

Metal : billon

Diameter : 19,5 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 1,22 g.

Rarity : R1

Coments on the condition:

Cet esterlin est frappé sur un flan large et légèrement irrégulier. Exemplaire recouvert d’une légère patine grise sur lequel la croix du revers apparaît en négatif sur la face opposée

Catalogue references :

Bd.- - May.16 p. 31

Obverse

Obverse legend : G CO-MES - FLA-DRE.

Obverse description : Croix coupant la légende, cantonnée de trois groupes de trois besants posés en triangle et au 3 d’un quadrilobe évidé.

Obverse translation : (Guillaume, comte de Flandre).

Reverse

Reverse legend : + MARCHIO NAMVRC.

Reverse description : Buste habillé de face, le cou accosté de deux sautoirs.

Reverse translation : (Marquis de Namur).

Historical background

NAMUR - MARQUISATE OF NAMUR - GUI OF DAMPIERRE

(1264-1297)

At the end of the 12th century, the County of Namur was attached to that of Hainaut following the marriage of Alix de Namur with Baudouin IV, Count of Hainaut. In 1199, Philippe, second son of Baudouin IV, obtained the county of Namur which was erected as a marquisate by the Emperor Henry VI. Gui de Dampierre only came into possession of the Marquisate of Namur in 1264, when he married Isabelle, daughter of the Count of Luxembourg. In 1280 he inherited, on his mother's side, the county of Flanders. In 1297, he left the county of Namur to his son, Jean. He died in captivity in Paris in March 1305.