The County of Saint-Gilles was the domain of the Raymondine dynasty, whose counts played a central role in the First Crusade and the subsequent establishment of the County of Tripoli. Raymond IV of Saint-Gilles departed for the Holy Land in 1096 and never returned, dying at Tripoli in 1105, leaving his Provençal territories under contested management. The coins struck in his name and those of his successors during this period circulated across a region simultaneously financing crusade logistics and absorbing the economic disruption of depleted noble treasuries.
The pite denomination — fractional silver at its most reduced — was the workhorse of small transactions where even the denier was too valuable.
The County of Saint-Gilles was the domain of the Raymondine dynasty, whose counts played a central role in the First Crusade and the subsequent establishment of the County of Tripoli. Raymond IV of Saint-Gilles departed for the Holy Land in 1096 and never returned, dying at Tripoli in 1105, leaving his Provençal territories under contested management. The coins struck in his name and those of his successors during this period circulated across a region simultaneously financing crusade logistics and absorbing the economic disruption of depleted noble treasuries.
The pite denomination — fractional silver at its most reduced — was the workhorse of small transactions where even the denier was too valuable.