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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Medieval & Modern Coins| > |Italy| > ME68464
Kingdom of Naples, Joanna, 1343 - 1381 A.D.
|Italy|, |Kingdom| |of| |Naples,| |Joanna,| |1343| |-| |1381| |A.D.|,
Although her guilt was never proven, to ensure her own sole rule, Joanna had her first husband assassinated. For a time she was exiled to Avignon, where, hungry for money as well as power, she opened a brothel called "The Abbey." The brothel looked like a monastery. The women attended daily mass, did not work on Sundays, and served only elite Christians. But the facade was not a disguise; the Abbey was widely known as a whorehouse. After she supported Clement VII, the Avignon Pope, Pope Urban VI declared her a heretic and her Kingdom to be forfeit. She was captured, smothered between mattresses, and her body thrown into a deep well.Joanna of Naples
ME68464. Billon denaro, MIR Naples 32 (NC), MEC Italy III 721, Biaggi 1641, VF, nice dark green patina, typical crowded flan, Naples mint, weight 0.454g, maximum diameter 14.5mm, die axis 45o, 1343 - 1352; obverse + IOhANNA • DEI • GRATIA, label and seven lis, two lis on the label, three on pendants, two more below; reverse + IERL' ET SICLIE REGINA, cross potent, lis in each quarter; SOLD











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