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1 Thaler - Francis of Hatzfeld
| Issuer | Bishopric of Würzburg |
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| Year | 1637-1641 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Francis of Hatzfeld ruled the Bishopric of Würzburg from 1631 to 1642, a tenure entirely consumed by the Thirty Years' War. Würzburg had been occupied by Swedish forces under Gustav Adolf in 1631 — the bishop himself fled — and these thalers were struck during the slow Catholic reconsolidation of Franconia after Swedish power collapsed following Lützen. Coin production resuming at all was itself a political statement about restored episcopal authority.
The Hatzfeld family produced two concurrent prince-bishops during this period: Francis at Würzburg and his brother Melchior at Bamberg, an unusual concentration of imperial church power within a single noble house at a moment of extreme regional instability.