My new Lugdunum coin: King CONRAD ´The Pacific´ (937 – 993), french denier.

King CONRAD ´The Pacific´ (11 July 937 – 19 October 993), french denier.

Obverse: + CONRADVS / Cross.
Reverse: + LVGDVNVS / Cross on a church roof.
Coin: 22 mm - 1,32 g.



House: Elder House of Welf.
Father: Rudolph II of Burgundy / Mother: Bertha of Swabia.
Religion: Roman Catholic.
Born: c. 925 / Died: 19 October 993.
Burial: Vienne.
King of Burgundy and Arles (future ´The Great Kingdom of Provence´). Preceded by Rudolph II. Succeeded by Rudolph III.

He was the son of King Rudolph II, the first ruler over the united territories of Upper and Lower Burgundy since 933, and his consort Bertha, a daughter of Duke Burchard II of Swabia. Some sources call him Conrad III, since he was the third Conrad in his family: his great-grandfather was Duke Conrad II, whose father was Count Conrad I.



According the chronicler Ekkehard IV, in a story that is probably apocryphal, when Conrad learned that both the Magyars and the Saracens of Fraxinetum were marching against him, he sent envoys to both armies warning them of the other. The envoys offered Burgundian aid to each invader against the other and then informed them of the other's whereabouts. When the Magyars and Saracens met, the Burgundians held back and only attacked when the opposing forces were spent. In this way, both invading armies were destroyed and the captives sold into slavery...
King Conrad, ´The Pacific´...

He married in 964 with Mathilde (934 - 980), the daughter of Louis IV of ´Outremer´ and the sister of Lothaire, who brings him the dowry of Lyon. Conrad united the kingdom of Arles with that of Burgundy, forming ´The Great Kingdom of Provence´... Oh là là!



BTW... Aye, Lugdunum is a latinization of the Gaulish *Lugudunon, meaning "Fortress (or hill) of (the god) Lugus"...

http://www.imbas.org/articles/lugus.html




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Sources & Info:

WIKI.

Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Bourchard, Constance Brittain (1999). "Burgundy and Provence, 879–1032". In Reuter, Timothy; McKitterick, Rosamond. The New Cambridge Medieval History: Volume 3, c.900-c.1024. Cambridge University Press.

Demotz F., La Bourgogne, dernier des royaumes carolingiens (855-1056): roi, pouvoirs et élites autour du Léman, Lausanne, 2008.

Cope, Christopher (1987). Phoenix Frustrated: The Lost Kingdom of Burgundy. Constable.

Fichtenau, Heinrich (1991). Living in the Tenth Century: Mentalities and Social Orders. Translated by Geary, Patrick J. University of Chicago Press.

Paravy P. (dir.), Des Burgondes au royaume de Bourgogne (V-Xe siècle), journées d'étude des 26-27 octobre 2001, Grenoble, 2002.

 

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Thanks/ great topic weldone

 

Very nice piece!

 

A very nice coin and a very interesting presentation.

 

I always enjoy your articles @RAGNAROK. Your King Conrad coin is cool. I do not yet own a Medieval coin.

 

Kelts RULE @RAGNAROK !

 

Congrats on a great coin @RAGNAROK

 

For suir, caraid!
I lived in Lyon for a while perfecting ma vera ´rough´ french (jokes about my English from here: ......).

I don't know if ye´re fluent in french but I'm pretty shuir ye get why I bought the coin. Just look down there...

http://www.persee.fr/doc/dha_0755-7256_1997_num_23_1_2334

https://dokupdf.com/download/lugus-...frappe-en-gaule-_5a021bb0d64ab2b9bd9763fd_pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lugus

This old buddy totally rocks the Celtic pantheon!!!

 

Excellent post and excellent coin @RAGNAROK !

You never know what you're going to learn next on this site

 

I love it. Knew about this Bad-As Kelt God... The Tri-Face is very cool. Sorry, I know no French... Will have to Translate sometime.

Here is a Kelt Goddess I like!


Celtic Britain Iceni Boudicca 61 CE 1.03g Celt Hd r Celtic horse galloping Scarce

 

Your very cool Boudicca have an ´overload´ of testosterone... IMHO...
...but after having seen "Britannia"...



...i'm not sure of anything... ...well, I think that the producer of the series has a veeery serious problem with some substances...