bfe_936586 - BURGUNDY - DUCHY OF BURGUNDY - CHARLES THE BOLD or THE RECKLESS Gros au briquet
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Type : Gros au briquet
Date: c. 1467-1477
Date: n.d.
Mint name / Town : Dijon
Metal : silver
Diameter : 26 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 2,80 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Ce gros est frappé sur un flan assez large, irrégulier et légèrement voilé. Une légère patine grise le recouvre. Quelques faiblesses de frappe au niveau des légendes
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : + KAROLVSX DVXX ETX COMESX BVRG, (PONCTUATION PAR DEUX SAUTOIRS SUPERPOSÉS).
Obverse description : Écu écartelé, aux 1 et 4 de Bourgogne moderne, au 2 mi-parti de Bourgogne ancien et de Brabant, au 3 mi-parti de Bourgogne ancien et de Limbourg, sur le tout de Flandre ; l’écu est sous un briquet et est accosté de deux croix de saint André.
Obverse translation : (Charles, duc et comte de Bourgogne).
Reverse
Reverse legend : + SITX NOMENX DNIX BENEDICTVMX, (PONCTUATION PAR DEUX SAUTOIRS SUPERPOSÉS).
Reverse description : Croix de saint André cantonnée de deux briquets et de deux lis.
Reverse translation : (Béni soit le nom du seigneur).
Historical background
BURGUNDY - DUCHY OF BURGUNDY - CHARLES THE BOLD or THE RECKLESS
(06/15/1467-01/5/1477)
Charles (1433-1477) was the son of Philip the Good and Isabella of Portugal. He first married Catherine of France (1428-1446) in 1440, then Isabelle de Bourbon in 1454, finally Marguerite of York, sister of Edward IV, in 1468. He succeeded his father on June 15, 1467. Charles sequesters Louis XI at the Péronne interview and accuses him of treason. The King submits. Charles helps his brother-in-law Édouard to reconquer his kingdom in 1471. He besieges Beauvais in July 1472 (heroic resistance from Jeanne Huchette), but has to lift the siege. He then tries to recreate a kingdom of Lotharingia with the help of Emperor Frederick III. It's a fail. Charles unsuccessfully besieged Cologne in 1475. He then threw himself on the Lorraine of René II and took Nancy on September 30. Charles was defeated by the Swiss on June 21, 1476 at Murten. Charles was killed besieging Nancy on January 5, 1477. His daughter Marie, born in 1457, succeeded him.
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