Denier - Godfrey III

Godfrey III — "the Bearded" — held Bouillon as a waypoint in a career defined by rebellion against imperial authority. He spent much of the 1050s and 1060s in open conflict with Emperor Henry III, was stripped of his duchies, and only gradually rehabilitated under Henry IV. Bouillon's coinage from this period sits in the political wreckage of that struggle — small output, uncertain administration, a border lordship asserting itself on silver when it could.

This is also the generation before his son Godfrey of Bouillon led the First Crusade and famously sold or pledged the lordship of Bouillon to the Bishop of Liège in 1096 to finance the campaign.