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<p>[QUOTE="The Eidolon, post: 4291840, member: 102103"]Day 9, Three more English coins from the late 1600s:</p><p>Top: Charles II Farthing ("CAROLUS A CAROLO" = Charles son of Charles), 1672</p><p>Middle: William and Mary Farthing, 1694</p><p>Bottom: William III groat, 1698 when he ruled as sole monarch after Mary II died.</p><p>The coin still asserts the English claim to the throne of France: "GVILLMUS.III.DEI.GRA" "1698.MAG.BR.FRA.ET.HIB.REX" (William III, by the Grace of God. 1698 King of Great Britain, France and Ireland).</p><p>The UK would only give up its claim to France after the French Revolution made it a moot point by removing the King of France. As part of peace negotiations, Republican France's envoys insisted that the UK drop the claim to the throne. The fleur-de-lys was quietly dropped from the UK's Royal coat of arms.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1092448[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1092450[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1092451[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I hadn't realized that Mary had the stronger claim to the throne than William. William insisted on being co-monarch, so he did rule on his own after she died, but the throne passed to Mary's sister Anne, not William's relatives, after he died.</p><p>Anne had no children who lived to adulthood, so the Stuart Dynasty ended with her. Afterward George I, a more distant relative from the House of Hannover, became king. Their primary qualification seems to have been that they were Protestant, as many closer relatives who were Catholic were excluded from the succession.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="The Eidolon, post: 4291840, member: 102103"]Day 9, Three more English coins from the late 1600s: Top: Charles II Farthing ("CAROLUS A CAROLO" = Charles son of Charles), 1672 Middle: William and Mary Farthing, 1694 Bottom: William III groat, 1698 when he ruled as sole monarch after Mary II died. The coin still asserts the English claim to the throne of France: "GVILLMUS.III.DEI.GRA" "1698.MAG.BR.FRA.ET.HIB.REX" (William III, by the Grace of God. 1698 King of Great Britain, France and Ireland). The UK would only give up its claim to France after the French Revolution made it a moot point by removing the King of France. As part of peace negotiations, Republican France's envoys insisted that the UK drop the claim to the throne. The fleur-de-lys was quietly dropped from the UK's Royal coat of arms. [ATTACH=full]1092448[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1092450[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1092451[/ATTACH] I hadn't realized that Mary had the stronger claim to the throne than William. William insisted on being co-monarch, so he did rule on his own after she died, but the throne passed to Mary's sister Anne, not William's relatives, after he died. Anne had no children who lived to adulthood, so the Stuart Dynasty ended with her. Afterward George I, a more distant relative from the House of Hannover, became king. Their primary qualification seems to have been that they were Protestant, as many closer relatives who were Catholic were excluded from the succession.[/QUOTE]
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