cod. persona: 4174	status di approvazione: public
Nicolas Briot
Periodo di attività: 1582 – 1646		Sesso: M
Varianti del nome documentate:
- Nicholas Briot - Nicolas Briot
Il Forrer (1902-30, I, p. 286) riporta: Briot's first wife, Pauline Nisse, died in 1608; he remarried in 161 Esther Petau, who at his death in 1646 was left penniless; but on the Restoration of Charles II., she recovered the arrears due to her husband, amounting to 3000 l. Briot invented or improved a new method of striking coins and medals by the balance, "which made them more perfectly round than they had ever been before", and submitted it to the Paris Mint authorities as early as 1615, but disgusted at the treatment he received, and pressed hard by his creditors he fled to England, between September 16 and October 31, 1625, whereon 27. January 1633, he was appointed Chief-engraver to the Royal Mint, after having been employed at the Mint, at least since 1628, when he engraved coin-dies for Charles I. Between 1635 and 1639, he held the office of Master of the Mint in Scotland. During the Civil War, it is said he retired to Oxford, where he died in 1646. M. Mazerolle has established the fact that Briot had returned to France in 1642 or 1644, and came back to England very soon after. It is suggested that from 1642 to 1646, Briot followed the English King in his capacity of Engraver to York and to Oxford. Rymer, Foedera, XIX, 40, quotes the following record of the artist's appointment at the Mint: "On 16 Dec. 1628, the King granted him the privilege to be a free denizen, and also full power and authority to frame and engrave the first designs and effigies of the king's image in such size and forms as are to serve in all sorts of coins of gold and silver. ".

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Attività di zecca

(zecca della Scozia) 1635 – 1639 Mint-master [EN] Fonte: FORRER 1902-30 I, p. 285 (zecca non precisata) 1 luglio 1606 Engraver-general [EN] Il Forrer (1902-30, I, p. 503( riporta: Nicolas Briot succeeded [Philippe] Danfrie on the 1. July, 1606. Dettagli riferimento: data di termine dell'incarico o appalto Fonte: FORRER 1902-30 I, p. 503 (zecche della Lorena) 1611 – 1624 Engraver [EN] Il Forrer (1902-30, I, p. 285) riporta: Engraver of the coins of Lorraine, 1611-1624. Fonte: FORRER 1902-30 I, p. 285 Charleville 1608 c. – 1615 c. Maestro di zecca Edinburgh 1646 Mint-master [EN] Dettagli riferimento: data di termine dell'incarico o appalto Fonte: FORRER 1902-30 II, p. 67 Londra 1608 – 1646 Coin-engraver [EN] Fonte: FORRER 1902-30 II, p. 56 Londra 1633 Chief-engraver [EN] Dettagli riferimento: data di nomina o elezione alla carica Fonte: FORRER 1902-30 I, p. 285 Nancy post 1582 – ante 1620 Incisore Fu uno degli incisori che incise i conii delle monete emesse durante la conduzione di Nicolas Gennetaire. Fonte: FORRER 1902-30 II, p. 241 Nancy 1608 – 1646 Coin-engraver [EN] Fonte: FORRER 1902-30 II, p. 56 Parigi 1606 – 1625 Chief-engraver [EN] Il Forrer (1902-30, I, pp. 285-286) riporta: [Nicolas] Briot succeeded Philip Danfrie at the Paris Mint, from whom he had purchased the office on the death of his son. Fonte: FORRER 1902-30 I, pp. 285-286 Parigi 1608 – 1646 Coin-engraver [EN] Fonte: FORRER 1902-30 II, p. 56 Parigi 1611 Imprimeur en taille-douce et graveur des marques et effigies des monnaies de France [FR] Il Forrer (1902-30, I, p. 286) riporta: In 1611, he took the title of Imprimeur en taille-douce et graveur des marques et effigies des monnaies de France. Fonte: FORRER 1902-30 I, p. 286 Sedan 1612 – 1613 (non specificato) Il Forrer (1902-30, II, p. 484) riporta: He [Jean de Herre] worked under Nicholas Briot, to whom he had been apprenticed. Nome registrato: Nicholas Briot Fonte: FORRER 1902-30 II, p. 484

Segni di zecca
(immagine non disponibile) B. F. n.s. (1608 c. – 1646 c.) Zecca: (zecca non precisata) Fonte: FORRER 1902-30 II, p. 56 (immagine non disponibile) N. B. n.s. (1608 c. – 1646 c.) Zecca: (zecca non precisata) Fonte: FORRER 1902-30 II, p. 56

Factoids
Morte, data 1646 1646 Fonte: FORRER 1902-30 I, p. 285; II, p. 67 Nascita, data 1579 c. 1579 c. Fonte: FORRER 1902-30 I, p. 285 Nascita, luogo Damblain (Lorena) Fonte: FORRER 1902-30 I, p. 285 Occupazione Medaglista Fonte: FORRER 1902-30 I, p. 285; II, p. 56

Relazioni con altre maestranze di zecca

insieme a John Falconer 3 agosto 1637 – ante 1646 Zecca: Edinburgh Fonte: FORRER 1902-30 II, p. 67 figlio di Didier Briot Nome registrato: Nicholas Briot Fonte: FORRER 1902-30 I, p. 284 fratello di Isaac Briot Nome registrato: Nicholas Briot Fonte: FORRER 1902-30 I, p. 284 suocero di John Falconer Fonte: FORRER 1902-30 II, p. 67 vedi anche Philippe Danfrie [2] vedi anche Jean Darmand vedi anche Jean de Herre vedi anche Nicolas Gennetaire

altre informazioni: schede che puntano qui Didier Briot Isaac Briot Philippe Danfrie [2] Jean Darmand Jean de Herre John Falconer Nicolas Gennetaire

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