Jacquerie

Jacquerie a peasant uprising is called in France in the 14th century.

France had to contend with the consequences of the Hundred Years War against England and with the impact of many plague epidemics. Even King John II had been deported to the battle of Maupertuis in 1356 by the English.

Occasion of the uprising were the devastation wreaked Charles the Bad of Navarre in the environs of Paris and met the peasantry particularly hard. In February 1358 the Paris trades under the banner of Prévôt marchands Étienne Marcel against the nobility. Its success encouraged the farmers to also rise up against their tormentors, they oppressed on hardest and demanded, among other things free repair their ravaged by the British possessions by the farmers. On May 21, 1358 the uprising began in Compiègne and spread to the northeast of France about. The rebels covered a distance of hundreds of castles in ruins, murdered nobles and committed numerous atrocities.

Finally, the Knights of all the parties agreed and they managed to stifle the movement on June 10, 1358. They took terrible revenge on the rebels. As a result, the area was completely devastated north-east of Paris in the long decades and the nobility lived centuries later, in fear of a repeat of these events.

The name derives from the nickname jacquerie Jacques Bonhomme, which the nobles additions farmers ago. After another had the leader, Caillet, this epithet, which you then transferred to all farmers.

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