Feudalism

Littere Baronum: The Earliest Cartulary of the Counts of Champagne

May 12, 2022

Edited by Theodore Evergates (NHC Fellow, 1994–95) The cartulary of 1211 is the oldest surviving register produced by the chancery of the counts of Champagne. This first edition of the cartulary contains 121 letters received from the barons and prelates of the county during the rule of Count Thibaut III (1198-1201) and the first decade … Continued

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The Aristocracy in the County of Champagne, 1100-1300

May 12, 2022

By Theodore Evergates (NHC Fellow, 1994–95) Theodore Evergates provides the first systematic analysis of the aristocracy in the county of Champagne under the independent counts. He argues that three factors—the rise of the comital state, fiefholding, and the conjugal family—were critical to shaping a loose assortment of baronial and knightly families into an aristocracy with … Continued

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