E-auction 66-31887 - fjt_013657 - François, duke of Alençon then of Anjou, Brabant and Count of Flanders François de France 1577

François, duke of Alençon then of Anjou, Brabant and Count of Flanders François de France XF

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Estimate :	90 €
Price :	41 €
Maximum bid :	65 €
End of the sale :	21 July 2014 18:56:00
bidders :	9 bidders

Type : François de France

Date: 1577

Metal : silver plated copper

Diameter : 28,40 mm

Orientation dies : 6 h.

Edge : lisse

Rarity : R1

Catalogue references :

F.66

Obverse

Obverse legend : FRAN D ALEN FI FR R 1577.

Obverse description : Armes de France.

Reverse

Reverse legend : FOVET ET DISCVTIT.

Reverse description : Soleil rayonnant au-dessus de la mer.

Reverse translation : Il réchauffe et dissipe l'obscurité.

Commentary

Ce jeton a été largement copié à Nuremberg par Kilianus Koch.
François de France (1555-1584), duc d'Alençon et d'Anjou, est le dernier fils de Henri II et de Catherine de Médicis.
A la tête du parti des Malcontents, François joua un rôle politique particulièrement important dans la France des années 1570. Il provoqua des troubles à la cour de son frère Henri III et participa à la sixième et septième guerres de religion.
Dans le cadre de la guerre d'indépendance contre l'Espagne, il fut appelé à devenir le nouveau souverain des Pays-Bas. Prétendant de la reine Élisabeth I d'Angleterre de 1572 à sa mort, il ne se maria jamais.
Sa mort le 10 juin 1584 à Château-Thierry de la tuberculose permet à Henri de Navarre (futur Henri IV) de devenir roi de France à la mort d'Henri III.
Extrait de sa très bonne biographie avec portrait sur wikipedia à http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_de_France_(1555-1584).
This token was extensively copied in Nuremberg by Kilianus Koch. Francis of France (1555-1584), Duke of Alençon and Anjou, was the last son of Henry II and Catherine de Medici. As leader of the Malcontents party, Francis played a particularly important political role in France in the 1570s. He caused unrest at the court of his brother Henry III and participated in the Sixth and Seventh Wars of Religion. As part of the War of Independence against Spain, he was called upon to become the new ruler of the Netherlands. A pretender to Queen Elizabeth I of England from 1572 until her death, he never married. His death on June 10, 1584, in Château-Thierry from tuberculosis allowed Henry of Navarre (the future Henry IV) to become King of France upon the death of Henry III. Excerpt from his very good biography with portrait on Wikipedia at http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_de_France_(1555-1584)