Live auction - bfe_830245 - FLANDERS - COUNTY OF FLANDERS - LOUIS OF MALE Écu d'or au lion
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| Estimate : | 2 600 € |
| Price : | 2 800 € |
| Maximum bid : | 2 900 € |
| End of the sale : | 06 June 2023 18:28:25 |
| bidders : | 6 bidders |
Type : Écu d'or au lion
Date: c. 1373-1383
Mint name / Town : Gand ou Malines
Quantity minted : 1459329
Metal : gold
Millesimal fineness : 896 à 1000 ‰
Diameter : 29 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 4,43 g.
Coments on the condition:
Cet écu d’or est frappé sur un flan large et régulier. Exemplaire présentant d’agréables reliefs
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : + LVDOVICVSX DEIX - XGRAX - COM'X ZX DNSX FLAND', (M ET N ONCIALES, PONCTUATION PAR DEUX SAUTOIRS SUPERPOSÉES, OU SIMPLE SAUTOIR).
Obverse description : Louis de Male, assis de face, couronné de roses, dans une stalle gothique, tenant l'épée levée de la main droite, la gauche posée sur un écu au lion, le tout dans un double polylobe cantonné de petits trèfles, qui s'arrête à l'exergue.
Obverse translation : (Louis, par la grâce de Dieu, comte et seigneur de Flandre).
Reverse
Reverse legend : + XPC: VINCIT: XPC: REGNAT: XPC: IHPERAT, (N ROMAINES ET RÉTROGRADES, PONCTUATION PAR DEUX ANNELETS SUPERPOSÉS).
Reverse description : Croix trifoliée portant un quadrilobe en cœur, le tout dans un double quadrilobe cantonné de quatre roses à six pétales.
Reverse translation : (Le Christ vainc, le Christ règne, le Christ commande).
Historical background
FLANDERS - COUNTY OF FLANDERS - LOUIS OF MALE
(1346-1384)
Louis de Male (1330-1384) is the son of Louis, Count of Flanders, killed at the Battle of Crécy (1346). He will try to maintain a policy of strict neutrality between the king of France and that of England. In 1382, he became count of Burgundy. Without a male heir, he married his daughter Marguerite to Philippe le Hardi, son of Jean le Bon, captured with his father at the battle of Poitiers in 1356 "Father keep to the right, father keep to the left". On the death of Louis de Male, Philippe le Hardi, who succeeded him, was at the origin of the great Burgundian estate. Louis de Male was also Count of Rethel.
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