Hugh XI inherited La Marche following his father's humiliation at Taillebourg in 1242, where Louis IX decisively crushed the Poitevin baronial revolt that Hugh X had helped lead. The county's autonomy was sharply curtailed afterward, and coinage rights — jealously exercised by the Lusignans for generations — became one of the few remaining markers of seigneurial independence. This obol dates to that constrained decade before Hugh XI himself departed on Louis IX's second crusade in 1270, never returning.
Hugh XI inherited La Marche following his father's humiliation at Taillebourg in 1242, where Louis IX decisively crushed the Poitevin baronial revolt that Hugh X had helped lead. The county's autonomy was sharply curtailed afterward, and coinage rights — jealously exercised by the Lusignans for generations — became one of the few remaining markers of seigneurial independence. This obol dates to that constrained decade before Hugh XI himself departed on Louis IX's second crusade in 1270, never returning.