Live auction - bfe_905583 - HAINAUT - COUNTY OF HAINAUT - WILLIAM III OF BAVARIA Écu d’or ou couronne d’or
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Live starting : Type : Écu d’or ou couronne d’or
Date: (1355-1389)
Date: n.d.
Mint name / Town : Valenciennes
Metal : gold
Diameter : 28,5 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 4 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Cet écu est frappé sur un flan large, légèrement irrégulier et voilé. Monnaie présentant de hauts reliefs
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : + DVXX GVILLELMX DEIX GRAX COMESX HANONIE, (PONCTUATION PAR DEUX SAUTOIRS SUPERPOSÉS).
Obverse description : Écu couronné écartelé aux 1 et 4 de Bavière, aux 2 et 3 de Hainaut.
Obverse translation : (Duc Guillaume, par la grâce de Dieu, comte de Hainaut).
Reverse
Reverse legend : + XPC* VINCIT* XPC* REGNAT* XPC* INPERAT, (PONCTUATION PAR ROSE À CINQ PÉTALES) .
Reverse description : Croix fleurdelisée et feuillue avec une étoile à cinq rais dans un losange curviligne en cœur, le tout dans un quadrilobe cantonné de quatre couronnes.
Reverse translation : (Le Christ vainc, le Christ règne, le Christ commande).
Commentary
Ce type monétaire est copié sur les écus d’or de Charles VI créés en 1385. Six écus d’or de ce type étaient conservés dans le trésor d’Ekeren. Pour Lucas, ce monnayage aurait pu être continué sous Guillaume IV de Bavière (1404-1417).
Historical background
HAINAUT - COUNTY OF HAINAUT - WILLIAM III OF BAVARIA
(1355-1389)
On the death of William II (1337-1345), his sister Margaret of Hainaut succeeded him with her husband Louis IV of Bavaria, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (+1347). Marguerite II d'Avesnes reigns over the duchy until around 1354-1356, shortly before her death in 1356. Their son Guillaume III l'insane (1332-1389) succeeds her and will reign over Hainaut for more than forty years. In addition to the county of Hainaut, Guillaume includes his other titles of count of Holland, Zeeland and Friesland. He married Matilda of Lancaster in 1352 who was interned in 1357 (+1362). In 1389, his brother Albert I (1336-1404) ascended the throne.
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