bfe_483072 - PROVENCE - COUNTY OF PROVENCE - JOANNA OF NAPLES Uthène ou octhène de Piémont

PROVENCE - COUNTY OF PROVENCE - JOANNA OF NAPLES Uthène ou octhène de Piémont XF

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Type : Uthène ou octhène de Piémont

Date: c. 1365

Mint name / Town : Tarascon

Metal : silver

Diameter : 20 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 1,45 g.

Rarity : R2

Coments on the condition:

Bel exemplaire pour ce type

Catalogue references :

Bd.858 (30 f.) - PA.4020 (pl. 90/16) - R.96

Predigree :

Cet exemplaire vient de la collection Savoie, n°1045 et de MONNAIES VII, n° 896

Obverse

Obverse legend : °-°I °IHR ET - SICIL° REG°.

Obverse description : Jeanne couronnée, assise sur une chaise formée de deux lions, tenant de sa main droite un lis, de sa main gauche un sceptre terminé par un lis, coupant la légende en haut et en bas.

Reverse

Reverse legend : COM-TS° PV-CE° AK-PDH, (PONCTUATION PAR DEUX ANNELETS SUPERPOSÉS).

Reverse description : Croix coupant la légende et cantonnée de quatre lis.

Historical background

PROVENCE - COUNTY OF PROVENCE - JOANNA OF NAPLES

(1343-1362-1382)

Jeanne de Naples (1326-1382) succeeded her grandfather in 1343. She is Queen of Naples, Countess of Provence and Forcalquier, titular queen of Jerusalem and Sicily. She was first married with André, Duke of Calabria, assassinated in 1345, then with Louis de Tarente who died in 1362, then with Jacques III, King of Majorca who died in 1375, finally with Othon de Brunswick who died in 1399. She died assassinated in 1382, leaving the County of Provence to Louis I of Anjou, son of Jean II le Bon. In Naples, it was Charles III, great-grandson of Charles II, who succeeded him before being assassinated in 1386.