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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4961382, member: 110504&quot;]With apologies for the delay, here&#039;s a coin from a place I got to as an 11-year-old, on my only trip to Europe.&nbsp; [ATTACH=full]1192720[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1192722[/ATTACH]</p><p>Archbishopric of Reims.&nbsp; Henri II de Dreux, Archbishop 1227-1240.</p><p>Obv.&nbsp; HENR /ICVS in two lines; +ARCHIEPISCOPVS.</p><p>Rev.&nbsp; Cross, crescents and fleurs de lis in angles.</p><p>+RE0)[/M]IS CIVITAS.</p><p>This is a contemporaneous stained-glass window from the cathedral, showing Henri.</p><p><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7d/Reims_%2851%29_Cath%C3%A9drale_Baie_118-3.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>And here&#039;s one view of the nave.</p><p><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Reims_Cathedrale_Notre_Dame_interior_002.JPG/800px-Reims_Cathedrale_Notre_Dame_interior_002.JPG" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>One thing I like about Gothic and Romanesque cathedrals is how they manage an impression of grandeur on what, at least in 700 years&#039; worth of retrospect, comes across as a distinctly human scale.&nbsp; In any modern European city, they&#039;re likely to be dwarfed by skyscrapers.</p><p>Archbishop Henri is an interesting character in his own right.&nbsp; He was a brother of Robert III, Count of Dreux, and Pierre &#039;Mauclerc&#039; de Dreux, who spent much of his career as de jure Duke of Brittany.&nbsp; The three brothers were active political allies, particularly in Pierre&#039;s machinations against local feudal rivals and successive French kings.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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