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Identifier: gri_33125008050011 (find matches)
Title: Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884
Subjects: Middle Ages Civilization, Medieval Civilization, Renaissance Costume Military art and science Christian life
Publisher: London : Bickers & Son
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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iennes, who were the true founders of the ancient municipalityof Paris, were each governed by a provost, who was the officer and lieutenantof the king, their seignior, and they further enjoyed certain special libertiesand privileges. In 1137, Louis VIL, at the suggestion of his minister, Suger,forbade his provost and officers to annoy the burgesses in any manner what-soever, and fixed the amount of their taxation himself. Ten years later, thesame sovereign abolished the right of mortmain, repressed the abuses of thefiscal taxes, instituted a judicial system, and greatly encouraged commerce. Itwas not as king, but as seignior suzerain, that Louis VII. acted in this manner. 22 FEUDALISM. The French, bourgeoisie was at this time of but recent origin ; it had sprungfrom a triumphant villanage, and was beginning to form a new branch, fromwhich was to issue, a few centuries later, the third estate. Legal jurisdictionand the right of coinage, feudal privileges of which the royal suzerain had
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Fig. 23.—Ferrand of Portugal, Count of Flanders, made Prisoner at the Battle of Bouvines, andtaken to Paris: The Clergy and Laity singing Hymns and Songs.—Fac-simile of a Minia-ture in the Chroniques de Hainaut, Manuscript of the Fifteenth Century (BurgundianLibrary, Brussels). always been very jealous, were favours it then but seldom enjoyed. Philip-Augustus understood better than his predecessors the interests of the royalpower, for he graciously granted seventy-eight communal charters; he wasrewarded by the effectual assistance the communal levies afforded him at thebattle of Bouvines (1214), when he was fortunate enough to overthrow the FEUDALISM. 23 coalition that foreign feudalism had formed with his rebellious great vassals.He forced the latter to return to their duty, and one of them, the Count ofFlanders, remained twelve years a prisoner in the principal tower of theLouvre (Fig. 23). Philip-Augustus had not shrunk from granting a legalconstitution to the bourgeoisie of Pa

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