Feudal Society in Medieval France: Documents from the County of Champagne Book

	List of Illustrations	xi
	Preface	xiii
	Acknowledgments	xv
	Introduction	xvii
Chapter I.	The Governance of a Feudal State	1
	Feudal Policies	1
1.	Permission to Clairvaux to acquire fiefs, ca. 1145	2
2.	The count acquires a castle and grants fiefs for castle-guard, 1200	3
3.	The assignment of a new fief, 1201	4
4.	Liege homage is imposed on a younger brother in 1201	4
5.	Authorization to build a castle, 1206	5
6.	An exemption to the castle policy, 1223	7
7.	An allodial castle is feudalized, 1221	7
8.	Confiscation of an unauthorized alienation, 1234	9
9.	The repurchase of a fief, 1244	9
10.	The great feudal inquest, 1249-1250	10
11.	Unauthorized alienations to the church, 1250-1252	12
12.	Restrictions on Templar acquisitions, 1191, 1255	13
13.	Authorization to acquire feudal property, 1260	15
14.	Royal taxation of alienated fiefs, 1291	16
15.	Count Thibaut V taxes his feudal tenants, 1257	18
	Rural and Urban Policies	19
16.	Count Henry franchises a new village, 1175	20
17.	A joint sponsorship (pariage) of a new community, 1223	21
18.	The communal franchises of 1230-1232	23
19.	A tax on the Jews, 1222	26
	The Fairs of Champagne	28
20.	Regulations of the Fairs of May, 1164	28
21.	The official weigh station, 1174	30
22.	Cloth merchants must pay the sales tax, 1175	31
23.	Clothmakers at Provins must be residents, ca. 1223	32
24.	The merchants of Piacenza are banned from the fairs, 1243	32
Chapter II.	Family Affairs	37
	Marriage and Divorce	37
25.	An unconsummated marriage is undone, 1153	38
26.	A prenuptial agreement, 1205	39
27.	A baronial dowry, 1223	40
28.	A contract of marriage between knightly families, 1231	41
29.	Count Thibaut IV's marriage contract, 1233	42
30.	A projected divorce settlement, 1224	45
31.	A marriage depends on a divorce, 1231	47
32.	A woman takes her estranged husband to court, 1284	48
	Inheritances	49
33.	A younger son contests his inheritance, 1215	49
34.	Fiefs are allotted to future heirs, 1230	50
35.	The statute on the female inheritance of castles, 1212	51
36.	The custom regarding feudal inheritances, ca. 1270, 1287	52
37.	The age of feudal majority, 1278	53
38.	An inquest on the age of Countess Jeanne, 1284	54
39.	When a noblewoman marries a commoner, ca. 1270	57
	The Dower Custom	58
40.	Count Thibaut III dowers Countess Blanche, 1199	58
41.	The seneschal's wife does homage for her dower lands, 1209	59
42.	Two knights dower their wives, 1221, 1223	60
43.	The dower custom of Champagne, ca. 1270	61
	Ecclesiastical Placements	62
44.	Abbess Heloise founds the convent of La Pommeraye, ca. 1147	62
45.	Countess Marie and her tutor at Avenay, 1159	64
46.	Limitation on the number of nuns at Avenay, 1201	64
47.	A knight becomes a monk at Clairvaux, ca. 1205	65
48.	The lord of Reynel becomes a monk at Clairvaux, 1216	65
49.	The castellan of Vitry places his daughter in Avenay, 1238	66
50.	Pope Urban IV orders a convent to accept a literate girl, 1262	67
	Testaments	67
51.	The testament of the knight Hagan of Ervy, ca. 1190	68
52.	The testament of the knight Erard of Nully, 1249	69
53.	The testament of Count Thibaut V, 1257	70
54.	The testament of Lady Marie of Esternay, 1279	72
Chapter III.	Feudal Affairs and Lordship	74
	Notifications	74
55.	A renunciation and a renewal of homage, 1216, 1219	75
56.	A sale of the mouvance of rear-fiefs, 1219	76
57.	A knight's family must approve his sale, 1226	77
58.	Permission to sell a rear-fief, 1229	78
59.	The two seals of the lady of Ramerupt, 1222	78
60.	The former chamberlain does not recall a grant, 1238	79
61.	The lord of Vignory corrects King Louis IX, 1239	79
62.	A cadet pays relief for his brother's fief, 1252	80
63.	Feudal tenants must pay homage to a new lord, 1252	80
64.	The nobles of Champagne protest royal taxation, 1314	81
	Mortgages, Debts, and Sales	83
65.	Castles are mortgaged to the count, 1201, 1210	83
66.	A baron's debt to a Sienese merchant, 1224	84
67.	A baron's debt to the count's Jews, 1231	84
68.	A fief is mortgaged to the Hospitallers, 1231	85
69.	A fief is mortgaged to the Cistercians, 1238	85
70.	The custom regarding feudal mortgages, ca. 1270	86
71.	A knight creates an annuity, 1202	86
72.	A real estate transaction, 1219-1220	87
73.	A lady has misplaced a letter of debt, 1245	90
	Lordship	91
74.	A new village is dismantled, 1171	91
75.	A lord's rights over his villagers, 1203	92
76.	The lord of Chacenay exacts four extraordinary taxes, 1218	94
77.	The High Court upholds Jean of Joinville's rights, 1288	94
Chapter IV.	The Crusades	96
	The Templars	96
78.	William of Tyre describes the Templars in 1118	97
79.	Bernard of Clairvaux, In Praise of the New Knighthood, ca. 1130	98
80.	A gift to the Templars, 1201	102
	Prince Henry and the Second Crusade	102
81.	A letter of introduction to the Byzantine emperor, 1147	103
82.	Louis VII praises Henry to his father, 1149	105
83.	Bernard complains to Abbot Suger about a tournament, 1149	106
84.	Henry requests a meeting with Abbot Suger, 1149	107
85.	Bernard consoles Countes Mathilda over her son's behavior, ca. 1152	107
	Preparing for a Crusade	108
86.	Josbert of La Ferte-sur-Aube settles his affairs, 1146	109
87.	A townsman of Troyes finances his journey, 1147	109
88.	Count Henry II collects the Saladin Tithe, 1188	110
89.	A knight finances his sons' trip to Constantinople, 1212	111
90.	The seneschal describes his preparations, 1248	112
	Consequences of the Crusades	113
91.	The High Court considers a pilgrim's prolonged absence, 1166	113
92.	Count Henry's vow while a hostage, 1182	114
93.	The Rule of the Order of Trinitarians, 1198	115
94.	A mother seeks to ransom her son, 1215	120
95.	A thirty-year captivity, 1233	120
Chapter V.	Acts of Violence, Liberality, and Charity	123
	Violence	123
96.	An assassination attempt on Count Hugh, 1104	124
97.	Count Henry resists the archbishop of Reims, 1171-1172	125
98.	The death of an excommunicated marshal, 1185	129
99.	The great fire at Troyes, 1188	130
100.	A holocaust of heretics, 1239	130
101.	The wrath of nuns, 1266	132
	Liberality	135
102.	The Cistercian monastery of Vauluisant, 1127	135
103.	Clairvaux is exempted from tolls and taxes, 1154	136
104.	The Cistercian convent of Argensolles, 1224	137
	Charity	140
105.	Foundation of the hospital of La Barre, 1211	140
106.	Fish for the Cistercian Chapter General meeting, 1216	142
107.	Light for Clairvaux and its charnel house, 1223	143
108.	Clothing and shoes for the poor, 1228	143
	Bibliography	145
	Index	153