Denier - Bernold Deventer

Bernold was bishop of Utrecht from 1027 to 1054, but this denier dates to the narrower window when Henry III's imperial authority was at its most direct — the years following the Council of Sutri in 1046, which Henry used to depose three rival claimants to the papacy simultaneously. Bernold was a committed Ottonian-Salian loyalist, and the coinage struck at Deventer during his episcopate reflects that alignment closely. Deventer was one of the more productive mint sites under Utrecht's ecclesiastical authority in this period.