v17_2032 - ARDENNES - DUCHY OF BOUILLON - GODEFROY-MAURICE DE LA TOUR D'AUVERGNE Jeton
MONNAIES 17 (2002)
Starting price : 230.00 €
Estimate : 380.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 230.00 €
Estimate : 380.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Jeton
Date: 1699
Mint name / Town : Paris, Monnaie du Louvre
Metal : copper
Diameter : 33 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 9,96 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Ce jeton est frappé sur un flan large et régulier. Il présente une jolie patine marron sur ses deux faces. On doit noter de petites traces de manipulation dans les champs
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : MONSIEVR. LE. DVC. DE. BOVILLON..
Obverse description : Monogramme sous une couronne ducale reposant sur un socle portant le millésime 1699.
Reverse
Reverse description : Écu sommé d’une couronne ducale, écartelé au 1 de La Tour d’Auvergne, au 2 de Boulogne, au 3 de Turenne, au 4 de La Tour d’Auvergne, sur le tout un petit écu mi-parti d’Auvergne et de Bouillon ; l’écu est soutenu par deux griffons et est orné de cuirs.
Historical background
ARDENNES - DUCHY OF BOUILLON - GODEFROY-MAURICE DE LA TOUR D'AUVERGNE
(1676-1721)
Godefroy-Maurice de la Tour, son of Frédéric-Maurice de la Tour (1605-1652) and Éléonore Fébronie Catherine van der Berghet was born on June 21, 1636. He is Turenne's nephew. Since 1658, he has been Grand Chamberlain to Louis XIV and since April 19, 1662 the husband of Anne-Marie Mancini, Mazarin's niece. He had been tutelary duke of Bouillon since his father had ceded the principality of Sedan to the king to save himself during the conspiracy of Cinq-Mars in 1642. In 1675, when the king invaded Luxembourg and the bishopric of Bouillon, he constituted for Godefroy-Maurice a principality, the duchy of Bouillon, which kept it until his death in 1691. The possession of the duchy was confirmed in 1679 by the Treaty of Nijmegen. He died on July 26, 1721.
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