Medieval France. An Encyclopedia

relations with the king, even entrusting his young son Henri to Louis’s entourage on the Second Crusade. That crusade experience ...

essentially rural economy of the county and contributed substantial revenues to the comital treasury. The count’s coins, minted ...

purchasing the mouvance of others. He consolidated both central and local administration. A “governor” exercised executive autho ...

same year, however, Thibaut acquired his mother’s inheritance, the kingdom of Navarre, where he and his successors spent many ye ...

Patault, Anne-Marie. Hommes et femmes de corps en Champagne méridionale a la fin du moyen âge. Annales de l’Est 58 (1978). Porte ...

enjoyed far greater constitutional importance and influenced justice, finance, and diplomacy through his administration of crown ...

account of the Spanish expedition and Battle of Nájera in 1367. The poem is extant in a single manuscript in Worcester College, ...

according to Bédier, but in the 12th and thereafter. The poets’ sources were in Latin chronicles that related the Carolingian ev ...

Crusades (of which the most famous is the imaginative Chevalier au Cygne) and those of Lorraine, Blaye, Nanteuil, and Saint-Gill ...

William W.Kibler [See also: ADENET LE ROI; CRUSADE CYCLE; ENFANCES; GUILLAUME D’ORANGE CYCLE; JONGLEUR; KING CYCLE; LATE EPIC; L ...

CHARITÉ-SUR-LOIRE . The priory of Notre-Dame at Charité-sur-Loire (Nièvre) was among the largest Cluniac foundations. Its first ...

strategies to win control, including forced baptisms, mass executions and deportations, and settlement of Franks in the area. Th ...

by scholars from all over Europe who joined Charles’s court circle—the Anglo-Saxon Alcuin, the Visigoth Theodulf of Orléans (aut ...

the Sixth to the Twelfth Century, ed. and trans. Timothy Reuter. Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1978, pp. 137–202. CHARLES I (1226–12 ...

Richard, Jean. Saint Louis: roi d’une France féodale, soutien de la Terre Sainte. Paris: Fayard, 1983. Runciman, Steven. The Sic ...

northwestern France and apparently tried to subvert the dauphin, John’s eldest son, into rebelling against his father. Increasin ...

CHARLES II THE BALD (823–877). King of the West Franks. Charles II the Bald was the only son of Emperor Louis the Pious (r. 814– ...

Riché, Pierre. The Carolingians: A Family Who Forged Europe, trans. Michael I.Allen. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Pr ...

Langlois, Charles-Victor. Saint Louis, Philippe le Bel, les derniers Capetiens directs: 1226–1328. Paris: Hachette, 1901. CHARLE ...

camp Olivier de Clisson, who brought with him a host of Breton knights who played a vital role in the French army. The king also ...