BRABANT Duchy - JEANNE AND WENCESLAS (1355-1383) - Lot 236

BRABANT Duchy - JEANNE AND WENCESLAS (1355-1383) AGn° DEI° QVI° TOLL° PЄCA° mVDI° mISЄRЄRЄ° NOB . The Lamb of God before a banner. Below, IOh'-DVX. R/. ✠ XPC: VINCIT: XPC: REGNAT: XPC: IMPERAT. Ornate cross canted with four lilies, a rosette in heart, within an angled quatrefoil canted with small lilies. ♦ Fr 8; Delmonte 43 Mouton d'or (1357-1371) Vilvorde (4.65 g.) A very fine example. Heiress to Jean III, Jeanne had been married to Guillaume d'Avesnes, Count of Hainaut, Holland and Zeeland (1337-1345). After her husband's death, she remarried in 1347 to the young Wenceslas of Luxembourg, brother of Emperor Charles IV. Her younger sister Marguerite married Louis de Mâle, Count of Flanders.