fjt_753517 - BÉARN - Gentry and Towns Antoine de Bourbon 1562
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Price : 450.00 €
Type : Antoine de Bourbon
Date: 1562
Metal : silver
Diameter : 28 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 4 g.
Edge : Lisse
Obverse
Obverse legend : GRATIA DEI SVM ID QVOT SVM ; À L'EXERGUE : 1562.
Obverse description : Armes de Antoine de Bourbon.
Obverse translation : Par la grâce de Dieu, je suis ce que je suis..
Reverse
Reverse legend : VIAM AVT FACIET AVT INVENIET.
Reverse description : Flammes sortant d'un rocher.
Reverse translation : Qu'il fasse route ou qu'il la trouve..
Historical background
BÉARN - Gentry and Towns
Around Pau, Béarn was part of Aquitaine in Antiquity. Invaded by the Visigoths and then by the Franks, Béarn was established as a viscountcy in 820. In 1290, the viscounty was united to the county of Foix by marriage and then passed to the Albrets and then to the Bourbons. Henri IV unites Béarn to the Crown in 1594. In 1620, Louis XIII will attach Béarn to the crown of France by the Edict of October 1620.
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