bfe_478925 - LORRAINE - DUCHY OF LORRAINE - RAOUL CALLED "THE VALIANT" Quart de gros

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Type : Quart de gros

Date: c. 1329-1346

Mint name / Town : Nancy

Metal : billon

Diameter : 18,5 mm

Orientation dies : 3 h.

Weight : 1,06 g.

Rarity : R2

Coments on the condition:

Ce quart de gros est frappé sur un flan large et irrégulier. Exemplaire recouvert d’une patine grise hétérogène et présentant des faiblesses de frappe

Catalogue references :

Bd.- - S. (5/63) - Flon.n° 6 p. 402

Obverse

Obverse legend : +: R: DVX. LOTORENGIE.

Obverse description : Écu de Lorraine dans un double trilobe anglé.

Obverse translation : (Raoul, duc de Lorraine).

Reverse

Reverse legend : MONETA D-E NANCEI.

Reverse description : Épée posée en pal accostée de deux écus de Lorraine sommés d’un trèfle.

Reverse translation : (Monnaie de Nancy).

Historical background

LORRAINE - DUCHY OF LORRAINE - RAOUL CALLED "THE VALIANT"

(1329-25/08/1346)

Raoul was born in 1320 from the union of Duke Ferry IV and Elisabeth of Austria. When his father died in 1329, he was nineteen years old and was placed under the regency of his mother until 1334. In 1337, an open war broke out with the Count of Bar, Henri IV. The King of France Philippe VI put an end to this conflict. Allied with the King of France, he fought the English by sending troops to the siege of Tournai. He also helped the King of Castile Alphonse XI to fight the Muslims of Granada and distinguished himself, on November 3, 1340, at the Battle of Gibraltar. Back in France, he supported his brother-in-law Charles de Blois during the War of the British Succession. He was killed during the battle of Crécy on August 25, 1346.

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