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1 Franc a pied - Louis II de Male
| Issuer | Flanders, County of |
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| Year | 1346-1384 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | ✠ BEИEDICTVS ⁑ QVI ⁑ VEИIT ⁑ IИ ⁑ ИOMIИE ⁑ DOMIИI (Translation: Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord) |
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Louis II de Male ruled Flanders through one of its most turbulent stretches — his reign saw the catastrophic Battle of Roosebeke in 1382, where French forces under Philip the Bold crushed the Ghent militia that had held Louis effectively captive in his own county for years. The franc à pied coinage was modeled directly on the French royal franc introduced by Jean II in 1360, itself created to fund ransom payments after the French king's capture at Poitiers.
Flemish counts adopting French monetary types was as much political signaling as economic policy. Louis's relationship with the French crown was complicated — he resisted it, needed it, and ultimately died leaving Flanders to his son-in-law Philip the Bold of Burgundy in 1384, ending the male line of the House of Dampierre.