fjt_874174 - ANJOU - GENTRY François Jourdan, maire d’Angers 1711
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Type : François Jourdan, maire d’Angers
Date: 1711
Metal : copper
Diameter : 28 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 6,65 g.
Edge : lisse
Coments on the condition:
Très bel exemplaire, usure régulière au revers
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : F. IOVRDAN. ESR. SGR. DE. FLEINS. MAIRE. D’ANGERS. 1711.
Obverse description : Écu aux armes de François Jourdan surmonté d’un casque taré de face et orné de lambrequins.
Reverse
Reverse legend : DISPERSIT DEDIT PAUPERIBUS ; À L’EXERGUE : HORR. PUB..
Reverse description : Le maire distribuant les secours aux pauvres.
Reverse translation : (Il distribue et donne aux pauvres).
Commentary
François Jourdan porte d’argent à la fasce de gueules, accompagné de trois roses de même posées deux et un. Il est maire de 1707 à 1711. Le revers de ce jeton fait allusion à la disette de 1709, pendant laquelle la ville avait dû acheter des blés pour en distribuer aux pauvres. La légende est tirée des Psaumes, 111-9.
Historical background
ANJOU - GENTRY
4712
Anjou was formed into a county in 878 for Ingelger, founder of the Angevin dynasty from which came the Plantagenets and the English kings from Henry II. In 1203, the county was confiscated but it was given by will to Charles of Anjou, brother of Saint Louis in 1246. Thereafter, the matrimonial alliances of the princes of Anjou allowed the house to reign in different places in Europe : Naples, Hungary, Tarente, etc. In 1328, Anjou was again united to the crown by Philippe VI of Valois but again became a duchy in 1360 for the second son of Jean le Bon. The last descendant of this family, King René, died in 1481 and Anjou was definitively attached to the Crown in 1482, even if the title was still carried by several princes of the blood, such as the future Philippe V of Spain..
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