v16_0750 - BOURBONNAIS - PRIORSHIP OF SOUVIGNY AND LORDS OF BOURBON - BEATRICE OF BURGUNDY AND ROBERT DE CLERMONT Obole

BOURBONNAIS - PRIORSHIP OF SOUVIGNY AND LORDS OF BOURBON - BEATRICE OF BURGUNDY AND ROBERT DE CLERMONT Obole VF

MONNAIES 16 (2002)
Starting price : 340.00 €
Estimate : 500.00 €
unsold lot

Type : Obole

Date: 1287

Mint name / Town : Souvigny

Metal : billon

Diameter : 15 mm

Orientation dies : 3 h.

Weight : 0,60 g.

Rarity : R3

Coments on the condition:

Cette obole est frappée sur un flan oblong et légèrement voilé. Les reliefs sont assez faibles. Une patine grise recouvre les deux faces de cette rarissime obole

Catalogue references :

Bd.364 (30 f.) - PA.2189 (48/11)

Obverse

Obverse legend : SCS MAIOLVS, (LÉGENDE COMMENÇANT À 7 HEURES).

Obverse description : Buste mitré de profil à droite, coupant la légende en bas, une crosse et un lis devant le visage.

Obverse translation : (Saint Mayeul).

Reverse

Reverse legend : [+ R] DNS BORBON.

Reverse description : Croix cantonnée au 1 d’une crosse, au 4 d’une coquille.

Reverse translation : (Robert, seigneur de Bourbon).

Historical background

BOURBONNAIS - PRIORSHIP OF SOUVIGNY AND LORDS OF BOURBON - BEATRICE OF BURGUNDY AND ROBERT DE CLERMONT

(1272-1310)

Béatrice de Bourgogne succeeded Agnès de Dampierre, the sister of Mahaut II (1249-1262). Agnès had married Jean de Bourgogne, the brother of Eudes de Bourgogne, husband of Mahaut II. Béatrice married Robert de Clermont (1256-1317), sixth son of Louis IX and Marguerite de Provence. First Lord of Bourbon, he was created Duke of Bourbon. Louis I of Bourbon said the lame succeeded his mother, Béatrice had died in 1310. Louis de Clermont had lost his mind following a blow on the head received in a tournament, (cf. The Cursed Kings). Robert de Clermont is the ancestor of Henri IV.

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