Beschreibung
Erhaltung: s à f / ss | Abkürzungen
Katalognummer: Gaston Jean Baptiste
Durchmesser: 16,00 mm
weight 1,39gr. | copper Ø 16mm.
obv. Laureate head right of Gaston dOrléans,
surrounded by the legend GASTONVFPD
unabridged legend: Gastonus VsuFructuarius Princeps Dombarum,
translation: Gaston, usufructuary, prince of Dombes.
rev. Two lilies and an A under a three-point label within smooth circle,
surrounded by the legend DENIERTOVRNOIS1651
Monsieur Gaston Jean Baptiste, Duke of Orléans was born at the Palace of Fontainebleau on 24 April 1608 as the third son of King Henry IV of France and his second wife, Marie de Medici. As a son of the king, he was born a Fils de France and at birth was given the title of Duke of Anjou. He later acquired the title Duke of Orléans, by which he was generally known during his adulthood. As the eldest surviving brother of King Louis XIII, he was known at court by the traditional honorific Monsieur. Gaston first married on 6 August 1626, at Nantes to Marie de Bourbon, Duchess of Montpensier, daughter and heiress of Henri de Bourbon, Duke of Montpensier. They had a daughter, Anne Marie Louise dOrléans, Duchess of Montpensier (29 May 1627 5 April 1693), called Mademoiselle de Montpensier, but later being best known as the Grande Mademoiselle. Marie de Bourbon died six days after giving birth (4 June 1627), leaving her daughter the last of the line of the Montpensier line of the House of Bourbon. After the Fronde, a series of civil wars in the Kingdom of France between 1648 and 1653, Gaston was exiled by Cardinal Mazarin to Blois in 1652, and remained there until his death. All of his Orléans titles then went to his nephew. Gaston died on 2 February 1660. KM. 29 | Boudeau 1090 | PdA.5214 | Divo 214 |
Duplessy 3002 Crépin 766 | Numista 56235
f+ à f/vf
