Historical and Commemorative
Medals
Collection of Benjamin Weiss
KARL III WILHELM, MARGRAVE OF BADEN-DURLACH DASSIER,
Jean: Germany, 1736, Silver, 46 mm Karl III Wilhelm (Charles-William III) (1679-1738), born
in Durlach, was Margrave of Baden from 1709 until his death in 1738.
At the beginning of his career, the Margrave was a military leader of
considerable stature, and at the assumption of his power in 1709, Philipp
Heinrich Müller engraved a medal depicting a lion suggesting forcefulness
and strength. But this medal, which was engraved by Dassier two years
before the death of Karl Wilhelm, shows on the reverse a tranquil lion,
expressing the pathos of the margrave's exile among his Swiss allies (Eisler).
The Margrave was in exile in Basil during the War of the Polish Succession.
A margrave is the lord or military governor of a medieval
German border province. It is used as a hereditary title for certain princes
in the Holy Roman Empire. Baden is a state in the southwest of Germany in the Black
Forest. Its origins date from the 12th century, and its territory was ruled
by a margrave from the 14th to 18th centuries. It was a sovereign country
until it joined the German Empire in 1871, and it remained a Grand Duchy
until 1918 when it became part of the Weimar Republic as the Republic of
Baden. LINK to
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