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1341, Royal France, Philip VI "the Fortunate". Silver Gros (with Flower) Coin. VF+

Mint Year: 1341 References: Duplessy 263. Denomination: Gros (w. Flower) Condition: Struck on an irregular, not completely round planchet, minor greenish deposits in reverse (vendigris), otherwise VF+ Diameter: 25mm Weight: 2.47gm Material: Silver

Obverse: Large flower (fleur du lis), surrounded by legend. Decorative border of small lis symbols around. Legend:  + FRANCORVm. Reverse: Small croww within double-border of legends. Legend:  + PhILIPPVS REX / + BnDICTV: SIT: nOmE: DnI: nRI: D

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Philip VI (1293 – 22 August 1350), known as the Fortunate (French: le Fortuné) and of Valois, was the King of France from 1328 to his death. He was also Count of Anjou, Maine, and Valois from 1325 to 1328. A member of the Capetian dynasty, he was the son of Charles of Valois (who was the brother of King Charles IV's father Philip IV) and the first King of France from the House of Valois.

Philip's father, the younger brother of King Philip IV of France, had   striven throughout his life to gain a throne for himself, but was never   successful. He died in 1325, leaving his eldest son Philip as heir to   the counties of Anjou, Maine, and Valois.

In 1328, Philip's first cousin, King Charles IV,   died without an agnatic male descendant; however, at the time of his   death his wife was pregnant. Philip was one of the two chief claimants   to the throne along with the demands of Dowager Queen Isabella of England, the late King Charles' sister, who claimed the French throne for her young son King Edward III of England.   Philip rose to the regency with support of the French magnates,   following the pattern set up by Philip V's succession over his niece Joan II of Navarre, and Charles IV's succession over all his nieces, including daughters of Philip V. A century later this pattern became the Salic law, which forbade females and those descended in the female line from succeeding to the throne. After Charles' queen, Jeanne d'Évreux, gave birth to a girl, Philip was crowned as King on 29 May 1328 at the Cathedral in Reims. Philip VI was neither the heir nor a descendant of Joan I of Navarre, whose inheritance (the kingdom of Navarre, as well as the counties of Champagne, Troyes, Meaux and Brie)   had been in personal union with the crown of France almost 50 years and   had long been administered by the same royal machinery (established by Philip IV,   the father of French bureaucracy), which administrative resource was   inherited by Philip VI. These counties were closely entrenched in the   economic and administrative entity of the Royal Domain of France, being located adjacent to Île-de-France. Philip, however, was not entitled to that inheritance; the rightful heiress was Louis X's surviving daughter, the future Joan II of Navarre, the heir general of Joan I of Navarre. Philip ceded Navarre to Joan II, but regarding   the counties in Champagne, they struck a deal: Joan II received vast   lands in Normandy (adjacent to her husband's fief in Évreux) in compensation, and Philip got to keep Champagne as part of the Royal Domain.

Philip's reign was punctuated with crises. It began with military success in Flanders at the Battle of Cassel (August 1328), where Philip's forces reseated Louis I of Flanders,   who had been unseated by a popular revolution. The able Joan gave the   first of many demonstrations of her competence as regent in his absence.

Philip initially enjoyed relatively amicable relations with Edward   III, and they planned a crusade together in 1332, which was never   executed. However, the status of the Duchy of Aquitaine remained a sore point, and tension increased. Philip provided refuge for David II of Scotland in 1334 and declared himself champion of his interests, which enraged   Edward. By 1336, they were enemies, although not yet openly at war.

Philip successfully prevented an arrangement between the papacy in Avignon and Holy Roman Emperor Louis IV although, in July 1337, Louis concluded an alliance with Edward III.

The final breach with England came when Edward offered refuge to Robert III of Artois,   formerly one of Philip's trusted advisers. However, after he committed   forgery to try to obtain an inheritance, he barely escaped France with   his life, and was hounded by Philip throughout Europe. Edward made him Earl of Richmond and honoured him; in retaliation, Philip declared on 24 May 1337 that   Edward had forfeited Aquitaine for rebellion and disobedience. Thus   began the Hundred Years' War.

Philip entered the Hundred Years' War in a position of comparative   strength. France was richer and more populous than England, and was then   in the height of her medieval glory. The opening stages of the war,   accordingly, were largely successful for the French.

At sea, French privateers raided and burned towns and shipping all   along the southern and southeastern coasts of England. The English made   some retaliatory raids, including the burning of a fleet in the harbour   of Boulogne-sur-Mer, but the French largely had the upper hand. With his sea power established, Philip gave orders in 1339 to prepare an invasion of England, and began assembling a fleet off the Zeeland coast at Sluys. However, in June 1340, in the bitterly-fought Battle of Sluys ("l'Ecluse"), the English attacked the port and captured or destroyed the ships there, ending the threat of an invasion.

On land, Edward III largely concentrated upon Flanders and the Low Countries, where he had gained allies by diplomacy and bribery. A raid in 1339 (the first chevauchée) into Picardy ended ignominiously when Philip wisely refused to give battle. Edward's   slender finances would not permit him to play a waiting game, and he   was forced to withdraw into Flanders and return to England to raise more   money. In July 1340, Edward returned and besieged Tournai;   again, Philip brought up a relieving army which harassed the besiegers   but did not offer open battle, and Edward was again forced to return   home, fleeing the Low Countries secretly to escape his creditors.

So far, the war had gone quite well for Philip and the French. While   often stereotyped as chivalry-besotten blockheads, Philip and his men   had in fact carried out a successful Fabian strategy against the debt-plagued Edward, and resisted the chivalric   blandishments of single combat or a combat of two hundred knights that   he offered. In 1341, the War of the Breton Succession allowed the English to place permanent garrisons in Brittany.   However, Philip was still in a commanding position: during   Papally-arbitrated negotiations in 1343, he refused Edward's offer to   end the war in exchange for the Duchy of Aquitaine in full sovereignty.

The next attack came in 1345, when the Earl of Derby overran the Agenais (lost twenty years before in the War of Saint-Sardos) and took Angoulême, while the forces in Brittany under Sir Thomas Dagworth also made gains. The French responded in the spring of 1346 with a   massive counter-attack against Aquitaine, where an army under John, Duke of Normandy, besieged Derby at Aiguillon. On the advice of Godfrey Harcourt (like Robert III of Artois, a banished French nobleman), Edward sailed   for Normandy instead of Aquitaine. As Harcourt predicted, the Normans   were ill-prepared for war, and many of the fighting men were at   Aiguillon. Edward sacked and burned the country as he went, taking Caen and advancing as far as Poissy before retreating before the army Philip hastily assembled at Paris. Slipping across the Somme, Edward drew up to give battle at Crécy.

Close behind him, Philip had planned to halt for the night and   reconnoitre the English position before giving battle the next day.   However, his troops were disorderly and not to be handled: the roads   were jammed by the rear of the army coming up, and by the local   peasantry furiously calling for vengeance on the English. Finding them   hopeless to control, he ordered a general attack as evening fell. Thus   began the Battle of Crécy;   and when it was done, the French army had been well-nigh annihilated,   and Philip barely escaped capture. Fortune had turned against the   French.

The English seized and held the advantage. Normandy called off the   siege of Aiguillon and retreated northward, while Sir Thomas Dagworth   captured Charles of Blois in Brittany. The English army pulled back from Crécy to besiege Calais; the town held out stubbornly, but the English were determined, and easily supplied across the English Channel.   Philip led out a relieving army in July 1347, but unlike the siege of   Tournai, it was now Edward who had the upper hand. With the plunder of   his Norman expedition and the reforms of his tax system he had executed,   he could hold to his siege lines and await an attack Philip dare not   deliver. It was Philip who marched away in August and the city   capitulated shortly thereafter.

After the defeat at Crécy and loss of Calais, the Estates refused to   raise money for Philip, halting his plans to counter-attack by invading   England. In 1348, a new woe struck France: the Black Death,   which in the next few years killed one-third of the population,   including Queen Joan. The resulting labour shortage caused inflation to   soar, and the king attempted to fix prices, further de-stabilising the   country. His second marriage to his son's betrothed Blanche of Navarre alienated his son and many nobles from the king.

His last major achievement was the purchase of the Dauphiné and the territory of Montpellier in the Languedoc, in 1349. At his death in 1350, France was still very much a divided country filled with social unrest.

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