Live auction - bfe_1066986 - NAVARRE-BÉARN - ANTHONY OF BOURBON AND JOAN OF ALBRET Teston
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Live starting : Type : Teston
Date: 1563
Mint name / Town : Morlaàs
Metal : silver
Diameter : 29,5 mm
Orientation dies : 8 h.
Weight : 9,5 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Ce teston est frappé sur un flan large et légèrement irrégulier présentant quelques hairlines. De petits coups au droit sur la tête de Jeanne
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Monnaie n° 65 de la collection Jean-Claude Ungar, p. 50
Obverse
Obverse legend : + ANT. ET. IOAN. DEI. G. RR. NA. D D. B.
Obverse description : Bustes affrontés et habillés de d’Antoine et de Jeanne sous une couronne.
Obverse translation : (Antoine et Jeanne, par la grâce de Dieu, roi et reine de Navarre, seigneurs de Béarn).
Reverse
Reverse legend : + GRATIA. DEI (MOLETTE À SIX POINTES) SVMVS. Q D. SVMVS. 1563.
Reverse description : Écu écartelé au 1 de Navarre, aux 2 et 3 de Bourbon, aux 4 de Béarn, accosté à gauche d’un A couronné, à droite d’un I couronné.
Reverse translation : (Par la grâce de Dieu, nous sommes ce que nous sommes).
Commentary
Le teston est beaucoup plus rare que le demi-teston frappé au même type. Millésime 1563 rarissime.
The teston is much rarer than the half-teston struck in the same type. Vintage 1563 extremely rare
The teston is much rarer than the half-teston struck in the same type. Vintage 1563 extremely rare
Historical background
NAVARRE-BÉARN - ANTHONY OF BOURBON AND JOAN OF ALBRET
(1555-1562)
Jeanne d'Albret was born in 1528. She is the daughter of Henri d'Albret (1516-1555) and Marguerite d'Angoulême, the sister of King François I of France. The king married her by proxy to the Duke of Cleves but the marriage was dissolved after three years. In 1548, she married the Duke of Vendôme, Antoine de Bourbon, who was appointed Lieutenant General of the kingdom on the death of the King of France, François II, in 1560. Jeanne d'Albret and her children won the Court at the request of Catherine de' Medici, but having publicly declared herself close to Calvinist causes, she had to return to her kingdom of Navarre. After the death of her husband in 1562, she reigned alone over Navarre. In 1572, she again went to Court to negotiate the marriage of her son, Henri de Navarre (future Henri IV) to Marguerite, the sister of King Charles IX (Queen Margot). She died in Paris during these negotiations.
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