OFFICER'S HAIR HAT PLATE OF THE FOOT TROOPS OF THE KINGDOM OF HAITI, model April 1, 1811, reign of Christophe "Henri 1st", 1811-1814. 25935
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OFFICER'S HAIR HAT PLATE OF THE FOOT TROOPS OF THE KINGDOM OF HAITI, model April 1, 1811, reign of Christophe "Henri 1st", 1811-1814. 25935
Gilded copper plate, H 14 cm, width 18.5 cm. Stamped in relief with a support consisting of two crowned lions facing each other framing a collar of order and a coat of arms in relief in azure, with the Phoenix gules, crowned gold, accompanied by stars; around the Phoenix these months inscribed on a ribbon “I am reborn from my ashes”, in the lower part motto inscribed on a ribbon: “God, my cause and my sword”.
Kingdom of Haiti.
Reign of Henry I.
Fairly good condition, gilding worn in places, plate split on its left (1 cm) and at the contour of the coat of arms, small losses in the framing molding in two places.
HISTORY:
The Kingdom of Haiti is a monarchy established in 1811 by Henri Christophe, president of the State of Haiti which then occupied the northern part of the country. Christophe proclaimed himself King Henri I, becoming the second monarch of Haiti (after Jean-Jacques Dessalines).
During his reign, he built six castles and eight palaces, of which only three still exist (the Royal Chapel of Milot, the Sans-Souci Palace and the Citadelle La Ferrière). Henry I also created a feudal system including a new nobility for his kingdom: four princes, eight dukes, twenty-two counts, thirty-seven barons and fourteen knights.
After a stroke and a popular insurrection, Henry I committed suicide on October 8, 1820. His son and heir, Victor Henry, was killed the following October 18 by revolutionaries. They are both buried at the Sans-Souci Palace. After the death of Christophe, the kingdom of Haiti was reunified with the south to form a new regime, with Jean-Pierre Boyer as supreme leader.
From 1791 to 1804, the Haitian revolution against the French colonists raged. After the failure of the French expedition of 1803, General Jean-Jacques Dessalines proclaimed the independence of Haiti.
On October 8, 1804, Dessalines was crowned Emperor in Cap-Haïtien under the name of Jacques I.
But very quickly, certain generals, ambitious to take power, set up a plot against the Emperor who was finally killed by the men of General Alexandre Pétion in an ambush, on October 17, 1806, at Pont-Rouge (at the entering Port-au-Prince), betrayed by one of his battalion commanders.
After that, his generals marched on the capital, abolished the Empire and expelled the imperial family who had to go into exile. Alexandre Pétion proclaims the Republic and makes himself president. But another general named Henri Christophe seceded and took control of northern Haiti where he set up a separatist government, the Northern State.
President of the Northern Republic, then president for life and generalissimo, Henri Christophe wanted to legitimize his power as Dessalines had done by reestablishing the empire. In conflict with the southern republic of Pétion, he managed, after several battles, to secure the borders of his new state. Having established a certain stability, Christophe establishes a constitutional monarchy with him as monarch. He became King of Haiti on March 28, 1811, under the name Henri I. On June 2, 1811, he was crowned by Grand Archbishop Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Brelle.
Gilded copper plate, H 14 cm, width 18.5 cm. Stamped in relief with a support consisting of two crowned lions facing each other framing a collar of order and a coat of arms in relief in azure, with the Phoenix gules, crowned gold, accompanied by stars; around the Phoenix these months inscribed on a ribbon “I am reborn from my ashes”, in the lower part motto inscribed on a ribbon: “God, my cause and my sword”.
Kingdom of Haiti.
Reign of Henry I.
Fairly good condition, gilding worn in places, plate split on its left (1 cm) and at the contour of the coat of arms, small losses in the framing molding in two places.
HISTORY:
The Kingdom of Haiti is a monarchy established in 1811 by Henri Christophe, president of the State of Haiti which then occupied the northern part of the country. Christophe proclaimed himself King Henri I, becoming the second monarch of Haiti (after Jean-Jacques Dessalines).
During his reign, he built six castles and eight palaces, of which only three still exist (the Royal Chapel of Milot, the Sans-Souci Palace and the Citadelle La Ferrière). Henry I also created a feudal system including a new nobility for his kingdom: four princes, eight dukes, twenty-two counts, thirty-seven barons and fourteen knights.
After a stroke and a popular insurrection, Henry I committed suicide on October 8, 1820. His son and heir, Victor Henry, was killed the following October 18 by revolutionaries. They are both buried at the Sans-Souci Palace. After the death of Christophe, the kingdom of Haiti was reunified with the south to form a new regime, with Jean-Pierre Boyer as supreme leader.
From 1791 to 1804, the Haitian revolution against the French colonists raged. After the failure of the French expedition of 1803, General Jean-Jacques Dessalines proclaimed the independence of Haiti.
On October 8, 1804, Dessalines was crowned Emperor in Cap-Haïtien under the name of Jacques I.
But very quickly, certain generals, ambitious to take power, set up a plot against the Emperor who was finally killed by the men of General Alexandre Pétion in an ambush, on October 17, 1806, at Pont-Rouge (at the entering Port-au-Prince), betrayed by one of his battalion commanders.
After that, his generals marched on the capital, abolished the Empire and expelled the imperial family who had to go into exile. Alexandre Pétion proclaims the Republic and makes himself president. But another general named Henri Christophe seceded and took control of northern Haiti where he set up a separatist government, the Northern State.
President of the Northern Republic, then president for life and generalissimo, Henri Christophe wanted to legitimize his power as Dessalines had done by reestablishing the empire. In conflict with the southern republic of Pétion, he managed, after several battles, to secure the borders of his new state. Having established a certain stability, Christophe establishes a constitutional monarchy with him as monarch. He became King of Haiti on March 28, 1811, under the name Henri I. On June 2, 1811, he was crowned by Grand Archbishop Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Brelle.
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