Live auction - bfe_692648 - PRINCIPALITY OF CHATEAU-REGNAULT - LOUISE-MARGUERITE OF LORRAINE Imitation de gros lorrain
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| Estimate : | 700 € |
| Price : | no bid |
| Maximum bid : | no bid |
| End of the sale : | 07 December 2021 19:18:40 |
Type : Imitation de gros lorrain
Date: (1625-1629)
Date: n.d.
Mint name / Town : La Tour-à-Glaire ou Château-Regnault (?)
Metal : billon
Diameter : 18 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 1,23 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire frappé sur un flan large et plutôt régulier. De petites faiblesses de frappe sont à noter. Patine sombre
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : LVD. MARGAR. ARG. LOT., (LÉGENDE COMMENÇANT À 1 HEURE).
Obverse description : Écus accolés de Lorraine et Bar sous une couronne, au-dessous G.
Obverse translation : (Louise-Marguerite de Lorraine).
Reverse
Reverse legend : IN. O.MNEM. TER. SONVS. EOR.
Reverse description : Aigle éployée et couronnée.
Reverse translation : (Leur renommée s’est répandue sur toute la Terre).
Historical background
PRINCIPALITY OF CHATEAU-REGNAULT - LOUISE-MARGUERITE OF LORRAINE
(1614-1629)
Louise-Marguerite is the daughter of Catherine de Clèves and Henri de Guise, assassinated in Blois on December 24, 1588, when she had just been born. Countess of Eu, she married François de Bourbon, Prince of Conti in 1605 who died in 1614. After his death she governed the principality of Château-Regnault alone until 1629, when she exchanged the principality to Louis XIII for Port -on the Seine. She secretly marries François de Bassompierre, from a younger branch of Cleves, with whom she plots against Richelieu. Discovered, she was exiled to the Château d'Eu where she died on April 30, 1631, François de Bassompierre then remaining imprisoned for twelve years. Pretty and intelligent, she is also the author of a book on "The adventures of the Persian court"..
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