The marriage of Mary Queen of Scots and the Dauphin Francis
Jean-Baptiste Salmson (fl. 1825-50)
Category
Coins and medals
Date
1832
Materials
Copper alloy
Measurements
52 mm (Diameter)
Place of origin
Paris
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Osterley Park and House, London
NT 773243
Summary
Copper alloy, medal commemorating the marriage of Mary Queen of Scots and the Dauphin Francis, Jean-Baptiste Salmson (fl. 1825-50), struck Paris, France, 1832. Struck copper alloy medal commemorating the marriage of Mary, Queen of Scots (1542-87) to the Dauphin Francis, later King François II of France (1544-60) in 1558. The obverse shows the couple in profile facing one another, Francis in armour, and Mary in a high-necked dress, a crown above them. Latin legend translates: Francis and Mary, by the Grace of God King and Queen of the Scots, Dauphin and Dauphiness of Vienne. On reverse, the shield of Scotland and the Dauphiné, impaled, and surmounted by a crown. Either side the crowned initials F and M. Legend translates: He has made both one. 1558. This derivation from a medal of 1558 was designed and struck at the Paris mint in 1832, by Jean-Baptiste Salmson (fl. 1825-50).
Full description
The daughter of James V of Scotland, Mary succeeded her father before she was a week old. On 24 April 1558 she married the Dauphin Francis, son of Henry II, King of France, who himself succeeded to the throne of France in 1559, but died just a year later, in 1560. Following his death Mary returned to Scotland.Vienne is the capital of the Lower Dauphiné, and has given the title to the heir apparent of France since that territory was bequeathed to France by Humbert, Dauphin of Vienne, in the middle of the fourteenth century.The medal was made in Paris in 1832 and is based on a smaller silver medal of 1558 (Cochran-Patrick 1884, pp. 8-9, no. 5, Pl. I.5). Jeremy Warren2019
Credit line
National Trust Collections (Osterley Park, Jersey Collection)
Marks and inscriptions
Obverse: FRAN. ET. MA. D. G. RR. SCOTOR. DELPHIN. VIEN. Reverse: FECIT. VTRAQVE. VNVM. 1558
Makers and roles
Jean-Baptiste Salmson (fl. 1825-50), medallist
References
Cochran-Patrick 1884: Robert William Cochran-Patrick, Medals of Scotland from the earliest period to the present time, Edinburgh 1884, p. 9 Hawkins, E. (ed.) Franks, A.W. and Grueber, H.A: Medallic Illustrations of the History of Great Britain and Ireland to the death of George II, 2 vols,. London, 1885, Vol I, pp. 91-2, no. 4 Eimer 2010: Christopher Eimer, British Commemorative Medals and their Values, London 2010, p. 33, no. 40