1 Oord

Huissen occupied a peculiar political position: a small enclave on the Rhine claimed by the Duchy of Cleves, it retained enough municipal autonomy to strike its own copper coinage during the chaotic early years of the Cleves-Jülich succession crisis. When Duke Johann Wilhelm died in 1609 without an heir, the resulting dispute between Brandenburg and Pfalz-Neuburg paralyzed normal administrative authority across the region. Huissen minted these oorden precisely during that power vacuum, between 1609 and 1611, before the Treaty of Xanten in 1614 finally partitioned the disputed territories.