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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 7791041, member: 110504&quot;]Very good question, [USER=56653]@seth77[/USER].&nbsp; Since the broader comital series is relatively underpublished (as we both know too well), Adam should have made some mention of this in his introductory remarks to the comital reign.&nbsp; For Henri I, Troyes and Provins both have variants, with the same chronological interval in operation.&nbsp; The earlier issues of both, from 1151, are in Henri&#039;s name, but continue Thibaut&#039;s obverse motif of the cross with an arrow and an Alpha and Omega in the angles.&nbsp; From 1164, Henri introduces the star, annulet and besants in their place.&nbsp; Presumably Adam has hoard evidence to draw on; Champagne is where he&#039;s based, and the center of his expertise.</p><p>...He does mention that 1164 marked Henri&#039;s marriage to Marie Capet, daughter of Louis VII and Eleanor d&#039;Aquitaine.</p><p>...From here, it would also be fun to know something about when construction of the Tour de Cesar began.&nbsp; It&#039;s easy to imagine it coinciding with the particularly auspicious marriage.&nbsp; Even this early, castles were as much about propaganda as defense.&nbsp; There&#039;s prominent precedent in England back to the reign of Stephen (1135-1154).&nbsp; Following William d&#039;Augigny, Earl of Arundel&#039;s marriage to Adeliza, the widow of Henry I, he built three particularly impressive and well-appointed keeps, at Castle Rising (rectangular /hall keep), Arundel (shell keep), and New Buckenham (the first round tower-keep built in England; as such, distinctly precocious for its time).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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