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Lot nuber 119

FRANCE, Provincial. Toulouse. Guillaume IX of Aquitaine. Second reign, 1119-1123. AR Denier (18mm, 1.25 g, 5h). Toulouse mint.


Electronic Auction 464
Lot: 119.
 Estimated: $ 100

The Richard A. Jourdan Collection – World, Silver

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FRANCE, Provincial. Toulouse. Guillaume IX of Aquitaine. Second reign, 1119-1123. AR Denier (18mm, 1.25 g, 5h). Toulouse mint. VVIELMO CO(ME) , cross pattée; S in second quarter / + TOLOSA CIVI, PII+ (for PAX )around center field; crozier-shaped P. Cf. Grierson, Coins of Medieval Europe, p. 68; G. Pierfitte, “Monnaie des Comtes de Toulouse” in RN 1935, 49; Duplessy, Feodales, I 1210 (William IV); Poey d'Avant 3676 (Guillaume IV); Boudeau 710 (Guillaume IV); Roberts 4225. Iridescent toning. Good VF.

From the Richard A. Jourdan Collection of Medieval European Coins, purchased from Andy Singer, CICF, April 2015.

Guillaume (Guilhelm) IX, Duke of Aquitaine, “the Troubadour,” possessed several prestigious family connections. On his mother’s side, he was the great-great grandson of Hugh Capet, the founder of the Capetian royal dynasty of France, and cousin to Matilda of Flanders, the wife of William I, King of England. His son, Guillaume (Guilhelm) X, Duke of Aquitaine, “The Toulousian,” was the father of Eleanor of Aquitaine, first the wife of Louis VII, King of France, and subsequently the wife of Henry II, King of England. This latter union produced several children, including Richard I, “the Lionheart” and John “Lackland,” both kings of England in their own right.

In 1094, Guillaume IX married Philippa de Rouerque, the daughter of Guillaume (Guilhelm) IV, Duke of Toulouse. In 1098, after Raymond (Raimon) IV, then the reigning count of the region, departed to head the First Crusade, Guillaume IX used the opportunity to seize the town and the surrounding countryside, by driving out Alfons-Jordan, the new count, who was only eleven years old. In 1119, the citizens of Toulouse expelled Guillaume IX; he held on to the surrounding territory until 1123.

His surname, “the Troubadour,” resulted from his avid support of the literary genre that originated in Aquitaine and Languedoc in the twelfth century, in which musician-poets, known as troubadours, traveled from court to court, singing songs, or chansons, which promoted the concept of courtly love. Guillaume himself composed a number of these chansons, a tradition that his great-grandson, Richard I, continued and in which he himself became very well known

Closing Date and Time: 25 March 2020 at 10:39:20 ET.

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