bfe_738136 - MURBACH AND LURE - LEOPOLD OF AUSTRIA (ADMINISTRATOR) 2 batz
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Type : 2 batz
Date: 1624
Mint name / Town : Guebwiller
Metal : billon
Diameter : 26 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,78 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Cette pièce de deux batz est frappée sur un flan légèrement voilé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : S* LEOD-EGARIVS.
Obverse description : Saint Léger mitré et nimbé assis de face sur un trône, tenant la vrille de la main droite et la crosse de la main gauche.
Obverse translation : (Saint Léger).
Reverse
Reverse legend : * MONETA. NOVA. MVR: ET LVDR.
Reverse description : Deux écus aux armes de Murbach et de Lure accolés, au-dessus le millésime 1624 ; au-dessous la valeur 2 dans un cartouche.
Reverse translation : (Monnaie nouvelle de Murbach et Lure).
Historical background
MURBACH AND LURE - LEOPOLD OF AUSTRIA (ADMINISTRATOR)
(1614-1626)
Leopold was the twelfth child of Archduke Charles and Mary of Bavaria; he was born in Graz in 1586. In 1598, he was appointed bishop of Passau in Bavaria, then nine years later he obtained the bishopric of Strasbourg. In 1614 he was appointed administrator of the abbey seat of Murbach and Lure. In 1619, Emperor Matthias appointed him Governor of the Upper and Lower Lands of Austria, with the title of Landgrave of Alsace, making him one of the most powerful princes of the House of Habsburg. In 1625, in order to ensure the continuity of the direct male line of the House of Habsburg, he left the ecclesiastical state by abandoning his bishoprics and abbeys but keeping his status as governor of Tyrol and Alsace. After obtaining a dispensation from Pope Urban VIII, he married on April 20, 1626, Claudia de' Medici, daughter of Grand Duke Ferdinand I of Tuscany. He died on September 13, 1632 in Schwaz (Tyrol).
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