© CGB
© CGB
Jeton - Louis XIV - États de Bourgogne - Gilbert de Gadagne d’Hostun, élu de la noblesse 1er type ND
1694 year| Copper | 10.98 g | 30.5 mm |
| Location | France |
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| Type | Commemorative medals › Personality medals |
| Year | 1694 |
| Composition | Copper |
| Weight | 10.98 g |
| Diameter | 30.5 mm |
| Shape | Round |
| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
| Updated | 2024-11-12 |
| Numista | N#373871 |
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| Rarity index | 97% |
Reverse
Burgundy arms crowned on an ermine mantle.
Script: Latin
Lettering: ✱ FELICIBVS CONDOEI ET BORBONII AVSPICIIS
Unabridged legend: Felicibus Condoei et Borbonii auspiciis.
Edge
Plain.
Comment
The House of Hostun is a dynasty originally from the Dauphiné. Two of its members, the lords Ragner and Matfred, are mentioned in the cartulary of Saint Barnard de Romans, in 1047. According to Rivoire de La Bâtie and especially Allard, the family's lineage is continuous from the 13th century onwards. Its first member was Lambert d'Hostun.The House of Gadagne (Guadagni or Gadagni in Italian) was a merchant family from Florence whose power began in the 14th century and disappeared at the end of the 16th century. Following an internal conflict in the Tuscan city, Cosimo the Elder's victory in 1434 led to a number of exiles, including that of the Gadagne family. One of them, Simon, had worked as a merchant in Geneva and Lyon. Simon de Gadagne was the first member of the family to settle in Lyon in the mid-15th century, bringing with him some of his children. His son Thomas I set up his own successful company here. Thomas II succeeded his uncle Thomas I at the head of the family business, and Guillaume (1534-1601) took over from his father Thomas II, acquiring the seigneury of Verdun-sur-le-Doubs on March 28, 1555. The union of Guillaume's daughter, Diane de Gadagne, with Antoine de la Baume d'Hostun, seigneur de Saint-Nazaire, on May 22, 1584 at Château de Bouthéon, created the Gadagne d'Hostun branch of the de la Baume family, when their eldest son, Balthazard, became Guillaume's universal heir. Balthazar was seigneur of Verdun from 1597 to 1645; he was succeeded by his son Louis de Gadagne d'Hostun from 1645 to 1682; Louis was succeeded by Gilbert de Gadagne d'Hostun from 1682 to 1712. Gilbert's daughter, Charlotte Louise de Gadagne d'Hostun, married for the second time Renaud Constant de Pons, who took over the fief in 1712.
Gilbert de Gadagne d'Hostun was born in 1654 and died on February 5, 1732. He was Count of Verdun(-sur-le-Doubs) from 1682 to 1712, captain of cavalry in the Villeroy regiment, commander for the king as lieutenant in Forez and elected nobleman in Burgundy from 1694. Saint-Simon judged him as "a man of great spirit, but singular, who had never served or seen much of the world except at his own point and in his own way, and who had never paid much attention to his cousin Tallard [the marshal], nor to the court and fortune" Mémoires, 1704, IV, 13.
The Gadagne d'Hostun family bore "de gueules à la croix dentelée d'or":
