v60_0214 - LANGUEDOC - VISCOUNTCY OF BEZIERS - RAYMOND TRENCAVEL Obole
MONNAIES 60 (2013)
Starting price : 900.00 €
Estimate : 2 000.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 900.00 €
Estimate : 2 000.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Obole
Date: n.d.
Mint name / Town : Béziers
Metal : silver
Diameter : 13,5 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 0,36 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Ce denier est frappé sur un flan assez large, légèrement irrégulier. Exemplaire recouvert d’une patine grise présentant des reliefs plus nets au revers qu’au droit
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : R: TRE[N]CAI:.
Obverse description : Croix.
Obverse translation : (Raymond Trencavel).
Reverse
Reverse legend : BI[T]ERIS: CIV’.
Reverse description : RE et deux molettes annelées à six pointes.
Reverse translation : (Cité de Béziers).
Commentary
Les monnaies de Raymond Trencavel sont très rares. Les oboles ne sont connues qu’à quelques exemplaires.
Historical background
LANGUEDOC - VISCOUNTCY OF BEZIERS - RAYMOND TRENCAVEL
(1150-1167)
The viscounts of Béziers were also viscounts of Carcassonne since the marriage of Raymond I (1002-1012) with Garsinde, viscountess of Béziers and Agde. Roger II succeeded Raymond Trencavel (1150-1167) who had been assassinated in the Sainte-Madeleine church in Béziers under the eyes of the bishop. Raymond Trencavel II, grandson of Roger II, was the last viscount of Carcassonne and Béziers from 1209 to 1247, in the midst of the Cathar heresy. Dispossessed of Carcassonne by Simon de Montfort in 1209, he ceded the two viscounties to the King of France, Louis IX, in 1247.
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