fwo_536661 - COMTAT-VENAISSIN - AVIGNON - URBAN VIII (Maffeo Barberini) Liard N.D. Avignon
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Type : Liard
Date: N.D.
Mint name / Town : Avignon
Quantity minted : -
Metal : billon
Diameter : 24,73 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 0,67 g.
Edge : lisse
Predigree :
Exemplaire de la collection Alfredo Meneghin
Obverse
Obverse legend : VRBANVS VIII PON M.
Obverse description : V surmonté de la tiare, trois abeilles dans le champ.
Obverse translation : (Urbain VIII grand pontife).
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANT CAR BARB LE AVE.
Reverse description : croix de Malte.
Reverse translation : (Cardinal Antoine Barberini, légat d’Avignon).
Historical background
COMTAT-VENAISSIN - AVIGNON - URBAN VIII (Maffeo Barberini)
(6/08/1623-29/07/1644)
Maffeo Barberini was born in Florence in 1568. Paul V raised him to the rank of cardinal. He was elected pope at the age of fifty-five on August 6, 1623 and was consecrated on September 29, 1623 as Urban VIII. In 1630, he gave the title of eminence to the cardinals and ecclesiastical electors of the Holy Empire. He opposed the policy of Louis XIII and Richelieu during the Thirty Years War. They had in fact sided with the King of Sweden, Gustave II Adolphe, who was one of the great defenders of the Reformation. In 1631, the Duchy of Urbino was united with the domains of the Church. He died in Rome on July 29, 1644.
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