E-auction 707-777014 - NAVARRE - KINGDOM OF NAVARRE - HENRI OF ALBRET Liard
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Type : Liard
Date: après 1541
Date: s.m.
Metal : billon
Diameter : 16,5 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 0,86 g.
Coments on the condition:
Liard frappé sur un flan irrégulier. Usures et faiblesses de frappe sur les deux faces. Fines concrétions vertes. Patine homogène. Reliefs assez nets
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : :+: H[EN]RI. DEI. G. REX. NAVAR. D. B, (N RÉTROGRADES).
Obverse description : Grande H couronnée.
Obverse translation : (Henri, par la grâce de Dieu, roi de Navarre et seigneur de Béarn).
Reverse
Reverse legend : :+: GRA. DEI. SVM. ID QVO[D. SV]M.
Reverse description : Croix plaine alésée.
Reverse translation : (Grâce à Dieu, je suis ce que je suis).
Historical background
NAVARRE - KINGDOM OF NAVARRE - HENRI OF ALBRET
(1516-1555)
Henri d'Albret (1503-1555) is the son of Jean II d'Albret and Catherine de Foix. He succeeded his father in 1516 and married his second wife in 1527 Marguerite d'Angoulême (1492-1549), sister of François I. He is the father of Jeanne de Navarre (1528-1572) and the grandfather of Henri IV. It was he who rubbed his grandson with a clove of garlic and placed him in a cradle made of turtle shell at the Château de Pau.
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