The Bishopric of Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux occupied an awkward political position throughout the second half of the thirteenth century, its temporal authority squeezed between the expanding Counts of Provence to the south and the Dauphiné to the north. Bertrand III held the see during a period when episcopal minting rights across the Rhône valley were increasingly contested, and the bishops of smaller sees struck coin partly as an assertion of jurisdictional standing rather than out of any pressing monetary need.
The billon content of issues attributed to this reign is notably debased even by regional standards of the period. Chareyron's numbering of two discrete varieties across 116–117 suggests at least one modification to the type during the forty-year span.
The Bishopric of Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux occupied an awkward political position throughout the second half of the thirteenth century, its temporal authority squeezed between the expanding Counts of Provence to the south and the Dauphiné to the north. Bertrand III held the see during a period when episcopal minting rights across the Rhône valley were increasingly contested, and the bishops of smaller sees struck coin partly as an assertion of jurisdictional standing rather than out of any pressing monetary need.
The billon content of issues attributed to this reign is notably debased even by regional standards of the period. Chareyron's numbering of two discrete varieties across 116–117 suggests at least one modification to the type during the forty-year span.