1245, France, Counts of Angouleme & La Marche. Silver Denier Coin. NGC AU-55!

Description

CoinWorldTV
1245, France, Counts of Angouleme / La Marche. Silver Denier Coin. NGC AU-55!
Denomination: Denier
Mint Period: 1170-1245
Reference: Poey d'Avant 2663, Duplessy 947.
Condition:
Certified and graded by NGC as AU-55!
Diameter: 18mm
Weight: 0.88gm
Material: Silver
Obverse:
Cross between pellets and crescent.
Legend: +EGOLISSIME.
Reverse:
Cross pattée.
Legend: +LODOICVS.
The
County of La Marche
(la Marcha) was a medieval French county, approximately corresponding to the modern département of Creuse. La Marche first appeared as a separate fief about the middle of the 10th century, when William III, Duke of Aquitaine, gave it to one of his vassals named Boso, who took the title of count. In the 12th century, the countship passed to the family of Lusignan. They also were sometimes counts of Angoulême and counts of Limousin. With the death of the childless Count Guy in 1308, his possessions in La Marche were seized by Philip IV of France. In 1316 the king made La Marche an appanage for his youngest son the Prince, afterwards Charles IV. Several years later in 1327, La Marche passed into the hands of the House of Bourbon. The family of Armagnac held it from 1435 to 1477, when it reverted to the Bourbons. In 1527 La Marche was seized by Francis I and became part of the domains of the French crown. It was divided into Haute Marche and Basse Marche, the estates of the former continuing until the 17th century. From 1470 until the Revolution, the province was under the jurisdiction of the parlement of Paris.
Authenticity unconditionally guaranteed.
Buy with confidence!
Hugh IX "le Brun" of Lusignan
(1163/1168 – 5 November 1219) was the grandson of Hugh VIII. His father, also Hugh (b. c. 1141), was the co-seigneur of Lusignan from 1164, marrying a woman named Orengarde before 1162 or about 1167 and dying in 1169. Hugh IX became seigneur of Lusignan in 1172, seigneur of Couhé and Chateau-Larcher in the 1190s, and Count of La Marche (as
Hugh IV
) on his grandfather's death. Hugh IX died on the Fifth Crusade at the siege of Damietta on 5 November 1219.
Hugh IX is mentioned under the pseudonym
Maracdes
("Emerald") in two poems by the troubadour Gaucelm Faidit, according to the Occitan
razós
to these poems.
Only 1$ shipping for each additional item purchased!