v16_0784 - LIMOUSIN - VISCOUNTCY OF LIMOGES - JOHN III OF BRITTANY Denier

LIMOUSIN - VISCOUNTCY OF LIMOGES - JOHN III OF BRITTANY Denier VF

MONNAIES 16 (2002)
Starting price : 145.00 €
Estimate : 230.00 €
Realised price : 175.00 €
Number of bids : 6
Maximum bid : 175.00 €

Type : Denier

Date: 1301-1312

Metal : billon

Diameter : 17 mm

Orientation dies : 3 h.

Weight : 0,91 g.

Rarity : R2

Coments on the condition:

Ce denier est frappé sur un flan irrégulier, un peu court et présentant deux petits éclatements de flan. La croix du revers apparaît en négatif au droit. Une patine foncée recouvre les deux faces de cet exemplaire

Catalogue references :

Bd.398 (15 f.) - PA.2307 (50/21)

Obverse

Obverse legend : + IHES[ VI]CECOMES.

Obverse description : Croix cantonnée au 1 d’un trèfle formé de trois globules.

Obverse translation : (Jean, vicomte).

Reverse

Reverse legend : + LEMOVICENSIS.

Reverse description : Champ aux armes de Dreux et au franc canton de Bourgogne.

Reverse translation : (de Limoges).

Historical background

LIMOUSIN - VISCOUNTCY OF LIMOGES - JOHN III OF BRITTANY

(1301-1339)

Jean III (1286-1341) is the son of Arthur II of Brittany. His father instituted him viscount of Limoges in 1301, then he became duke of Brittany in 1305, but died in 1312. Jean III le Bon therefore in turn became duke of Brittany. In 1314, he gave the Viscountcy of Limoges to his brother Guy VII (1314-1317). After Guy's death, he instituted the viscountcy as a dower for the benefit of his wife Isabelle de Castille. But Isabelle died in 1328. He remarried Joan of Savoy in 1329 and offered Limoges as a dower to his second wife. He recognized Philippe VI de Valois as King of France and was wounded at the Battle of Cassel. He became Earl of Richmond in 1333 and paid homage to Edward III of England for this earldom. Without an heir, he married his niece Jeanne to Charles de Blois and died in Caen in 1341 after having supported Philippe VI in the Hundred Years War which began.

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