bfe_692426 - POITOU - COUNTY OF POITOU - ALPHONSE OF FRANCE Denier
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Type : Denier
Date: c. 1249-1267
Date: n.d.
Mint name / Town : Montreuil-Bonnin ?
Metal : billon
Diameter : 18 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 1,01 g.
Coments on the condition:
Flan irrégulier présentant de petits éclatements. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : + ALFVNS COMES.
Obverse description : Croix.
Obverse translation : (Alphonse, comte).
Reverse
Reverse legend : + PICTAVIENTSIS.
Reverse description : Châtel tournois fleurdelisé.
Reverse translation : (Poitou).
Commentary
Le principal atelier poitevin d'Alphonse était Montreuil-Bonnin qui fut cédé au comte par Hugues de Lusignan en 1249.
Historical background
POITOU - COUNTY OF POITOU - ALPHONSE OF FRANCE
(1241-1271)
Alphonse de France (1220-1271) is the son of Louis VIII and Blanche de Castille. By his marriage in 1241 with Jeanne, daughter of the count of Toulouse, Raymond VII, he became the heir to the count's crown. When his father-in-law died in 1249, he inherited the county of Toulouse and the marquisate of Provence. His brother, Louis IX, gave him the prerogative of Poitou and the county of Riom which must return to the crown in the absence of descendants of Alphonse. Alphonse and his wife Jeanne died within eight days of each other in 1271. The counties of Poitou, Toulouse, Riom and the marquisate of Provence returned to the crown in the person of Philippe III le Bold.
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