France 1 liard (dolphin, Charles VIII) 1488 

• 1488 
• France 
• 1 liard 
• France - Royaume (1328-1589) 

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France 1 liard (dolphin, Charles VIII) 1488

1488

Crosses, Dolphins, Fauna (Animals)

220

1

20

[(LIS) DALP] HS* VIENENSIS.

+ KAROLVS [* F] RAN* REX.

MONNAIES 52, 86?

Obv; Cross without 2 Lis & 2 crowns between branches Rev; Dolphin, up & left In France, a dolphin coin denotes an heir apparent, and Charles VIII had a regent from 13 to 21 years of age. His elder sister Anne acted as regent jointly with her husband Peter II, Duke of Bourbon until 1491 when the young king turned 21 years of age. During Anne's regency, the great lords rebelled against royal centralization efforts in a conflict known as the Mad War (1485–1488), which resulted in a victory for the royal government. In a remarkable stroke of audacity, Charles married Anne of Brittany in 1491 after she had already been married by proxy to the Habsburg Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I in a ceremony of questionable validity. Preoccupied by the problematic succession in the Kingdom of Hungary, Maximilian failed to press his claim. Upon his marriage, Charles became administrator of Brittany and established a personal union that enabled France to avoid total encirclement by Habsburg territories. To secure his rights to the Neapolitan throne that René of Anjou had left to his father, Charles made a series of concessions to neighboring monarchs and conquered the Italian peninsula without much opposition. A coalition formed against the French invasion of 1494-98 finally drove out Charles' army, but Italian Wars would dominate Western European politics for over 50 years. Since he had no male heir, he was succeeded by his cousin Louis XII of France from the Orleans branch of the House of Valois.