Les émotions du « menu peuple » et la renaissance de la municipalité de Caen (1357-1359)
A curious remission letter granted in April 1359 to three bourgeois from Caen, responsible for the death of a certain Pierre de Montfort, has until now drawn attention mainly because of one unusual detail: The supplicants report that in 1358, during the Jacquerie revolt, Montfort “wore a wooden plow...
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| Crynodeb: | A curious remission letter granted in April 1359 to three bourgeois from Caen, responsible for the death of a certain Pierre de Montfort, has until now drawn attention mainly because of one unusual detail: The supplicants report that in 1358, during the Jacquerie revolt, Montfort “wore a wooden plow in place of a feather on his hat.” Yet the partial publication of the document by Siméon Luce has not, to date, allowed scholars to explore the possible link between this Pierre de Montfort and a (presumed) tax uprising in the same town in 1359, nor even with a “riot” in 1357 “that escalated into a bloody settling of scores.” Furthermore, Pierre de Montfort—portrayed here as a dangerous troublemaker seeking to “sow dissension between the commoners and the town’s elite”—turns out to be a bourgeois himself. His action are therefore most likely connected to the demands pressed by non-nobles during a period that proved extremely turbulent for French royalty. In any event, they fit squarely within the context of a revival of Caen’s municipal government—an institution that we may have been too quick to consider unwavering in its support of royal power. |
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