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How come Lady Jane Gray was the only one with a UDCAM coin?
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Looks like the seller also has Greek, Roman and Byzantine versions.
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Far right hand side row, second coin down. Empress Matilda (supposedly) what is actually pictured is a Stephen and Matilda coin. The Matilda on that coin is not the same Matilda though. The Matilda on the coin is Queen Matilda (aka Matilda of Boulogne), the wife of King Stephen. Empress Matilda was Stephen's cousin and rival for the throne.
Was tempted, in fact. Almost pulled the trigger.
But just a wee bit too pricey for me.
Edit to add: for those of us with a coinshop, etc, it would be nice to have a set of those. Maybe the seller would do a package deal. If I ever have a shop, those would look good on the wall, along with the US coin grading posters I just heard about.
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Left off Philip, the consort of Mary I. The only consort of an English queen to receive the title of King. His title expired when Mary did.
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<< <i>I spot an error!
Left off Philip, the consort of Mary I. The only consort of an English queen to receive the title of King. His title expired when Mary did. >>
Not left off exactly, i was just considering the monarchs that ruled (or in Matilda's case should have ruled) in their own right. Empress Matilda was the heir to the throne herself, she was the only surviving legitimate child of Henry I. Stephen was merely a usurper (who proved to be a nice guy all round and was certainly the nicest and most pleasant king to have ever sat on the English throne, except perhaps for Henry VI).
If we want to get into consorts, then i'm sure Eleanor of Aquitane would also need her own coin (she held Aquitane in her own right) the territory reverted to her control after she divorced Louis VII of France in 1152. Of course Louis was her liege lord so in theory he had rights over the land (she had to pay homage to him as a vassal, or in French a seneschal), but she retained control of it.
Which meant when she married Henry fitzempress, Count of Anjou in 1152 she still owned Aquitane in her own right. When Henry became king of England in 1154 she became Quern of England (and no mere queen consort).
Then you get Margaret of Anjou (wife of Henry VI), she wore the trousers in that marriage. Her husband was deposed, she got an army together overthrew Edward IV and stuck her husband back on the throne, much to her husband's displeasure most likely. He wanted to devote himself to God, he wasn't that bothered about being king. The perfect priest.
...and, toward the end, she had most of the active brain cells in the marriage.
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<< <i>Then you get Margaret of Anjou (wife of Henry VI), she wore the trousers in that marriage.
...and, toward the end, she had most of the active brain cells in the marriage.
Towards the end she was the only one in the marriage! I don't think poor Henry knew where he was, or even who he was.
It was reported than when he was presented with his infant son Edward he asked "What is this and where did it come from?"
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<< <i>Towards the end she was the only one in the marriage! I don't think poor Henry knew where he was, or even who he was.
It was reported than when he was presented with his infant son Edward he asked "What is this and where did it come from?" >>
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