Counter Token - Claude Gouffier

Counter Token - Claude Gouffier - obverseCounter Token - Claude Gouffier - reverse

© Giorgi Tsikarishvili

Features

Location France
Type Utility items › Counter token
Years 1546-1570
Composition Brass
Diameter 29 mm
Shape Round
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
197597
References Feu# 5533,
Félix-Bienaimé Feuardent; 1904. Jetons et méreaux depuis Louis IX jusqu'à la fin du Consulat de Bonaparte / Tome 1. Grandes administrations de l'état de la ville de Paris; corporations, etc.; noblesse et villes de l'Ile-de-France. Rollin et Feuardent, Paris, France.
And 3 more volumes.
Corre# 2156
Pierre Corre; 1986. Corpus de jetons armoriés de personnages français (2nd edition). Léopard d'or, Paris, France.

Obverse

Sword in scabbard on a belt.

Script: Latin

Lettering: SEIGNER · DE · BOYSI · GRAND · ESCVIER · DE · FRACE ✚

Reverse

Coat of arms of Claude Gouffier

Script: Latin

Lettering: C · GOVFFIER · CONTE · DE · CARVAS · ET · DE · MAVLEV · R ✚

Comments

Claude Gouffier was granted knighthood in 1533, and in 1546 created Marquis of Boissy and Caravaz.
 Claude Gouffier was a French nobleman, knight and book collector. He was the model for the "Marquis de Carabas" from the story Puss in Boots by Charles Perrault.
 He served at the Battle of Pavia, where he was one of the knights taken prisoner along with Francis I after the disastrous defeat of the French army. He was eventually released but was captured again during a later French campaign in Italy by Ferrante Gonzaga in 1536. He was ransomed two years later by Francis for the huge sum of 6000 gold crowns in 1538.
 Gouffier's official title was Grand Écuyer de France, or Master of the King's Stables, to Henri II, although his life's main vocation seems to have been the collection of books and unusual objects.
 He was the knight of the Order of Saint Michael. As it can be seen on this jeton, the coat of arms of Gouffier is adorned with Collar of the Order (small image of Saint Michael slaying a dragon).

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
ND (1546-1570) 

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