Buch, Jean III de Grailly, captal de
(d. 1377)Gascon lord and founding member of the Order of the Garter (1348). He fought alongside Edward of Woodstock, the ‘Black Prince’, at Poitiers (1356) and Nájera (1367), and took part in the ...
Charles II
(b. 1332) Count of Évreux (1343–87) and king of Navarre (1349–87).In 1350, Charles executed the constable of France, Raoul de Brienne, and was implicated in the assassination of his ...
Charles V
(1337–80)King of France (1364–80). He earned his nickname from his intellectual pursuits which included book-collecting and artistic patronage, his religious piety, and his cautious adoption of ...
Étienne Marcel
(1310–58)Provost of the merchants of Paris. Following the capture of King Jean II at Poitiers (1356), Marcel supported the reform proposals of Robert Le Coq, a partisan of Charles ...
Jacquerie Reference library
The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages
An uprising in the *Paris basin in the summer of 1358, named after the *peasants or ‘Jacques’ who directed
Jacqueries Reference library
Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages
The term “Jacquerie” evoked “Jacques Bonhomme”, an insulting surname given to rustics, or the “jaque”, the short jacket
peasant resistance and revolts
The best-known revolts of the MA are peasant uprisings or ones that united peasants with commoners from the towns: the revolts of Flanders (1297–1305 and 1323–8), the Jacquerie of 1358 ...
Revolts
The Middle Ages were punctuated by episodes of collective violence against the established powers, as numerous as they were brief and doomed to failure. But the insufficiency of the evidence ...
