Knight and national hero of Luxembourg.

So here we have the Luxembourger franc, nominal - 100. The year of issue of this coin is 1946. Total circulation – 100.000. The coin is dedicated to the 600th anniversary of the death of Johann Luxembourger.

John of Luxembourg, was born in August 10, 1296, Luxembourg. King of Bohemia from 1310 until his death, and one of the more popular heroic figures of his day, who campaigned across Europe from Toulouse to Prussia.

He was born the son of the future Holy Roman emperor Henry VII of the house of Luxembourg and was made count of Luxembourg in 1310. At about the same time, he also was named king of Bohemia, and on February 7, 1311, he was solemnly crowned at Prague. When his father died in 1313, John was too young to succeed him as emperor and supported instead the election of Louis the Bavarian as Emperor Louis IV in 1314.

John subsequently sided with Louis in his struggle against Frederick of Austria in 1322, but in later years he was estranged from the Emperor, especially after Louis’s alliance with England against France in the Hundred Years’ War. John’s own sympathies strongly favoured the French. He had sent his own son, the future emperor Charles IV, to be reared in Paris, and he several times fought in the service of France.

In 1346, in concert with Pope Clement VI, he secured the formal deposition of Louis IV and the election of his son Charles as king of the Romans in July 1346. He then went to help King Philip VI of France against the English but was killed at the Battle of Crécy.