ST. URBAIN, Ferdinand de: Lorraine, ca. 1720, Bronze, 47 mm
Obv: Bust (r)   CAROLVS. V. D. G. DVX. LOT. MAR. D. C. B. G
Rev: Bust (l)   ELEON. MAR. AVSTRIACA. REGINA. POL. DVCISSA. LOT. C. B. G.
Signed: S.V.
Ref: From the Series of the Dukes and Duchesses of Lorraine. Forrer V, p.310 #53; Mirnik #35;  Weiss BW777

Charles V, Duc de Lorraine was born in 1643 at Vienna, Austria. He was the son of Nicholas François, Duc de Lorraine and Claude de Lorraine. Charles V succeeded to the title of Duc de Lorraine in 1675. He married Eleonora Maria Josefa Erzherzogin von Österreich in 1678 at Wiener Neustadt, Austria. He died in 1690 at age 47 at Welzen, Austria.

Archduchess Eleonora Maria Josefa of Austria (1653-1697) was the daughter of Ferdinand III von Habsburg, Holy Roman Emperor and Eleanor Gonzaga Principessa di Mantova.

Charles V was Eleonora’s second husband. They were the parents of 6 children: Léopold Joseph Charles, Duc de Lorraine, Charles Joseph Ignatius Kurfürst von Trier, Eleanor de Lorraine, Charles Ferdinand de Lorraine, General Joseph Innocent Emanuel de Lorraine, and Francis Anthony Joseph de Lorraine.

Eleonora Maria died at the age of 44, having outlived both of her husbands and 2 of her children. She passed to her heirs the inheritance of the Gonzaga of Mantua.

LINK to portrait of Charles V, Duke of Lorraine (from the peerage.com)