Pieter de Coninck

Pieter de Coninck († 1332/1333 ) applies with Jan Breydel as the leader of the Bruges Matins, the bloody uprising against the French King Philip the Fair.

Life

In 1301, de Coninck, was detained by home weavers, by the city government of Bruges as a dangerous agitator, but later freed by the people again. As a little later, the party of france friendly Leliaarts took over the government and Jacques de Châtillon was used as a French governor, Pieter de Coninck was banished. In December 1301 he returned with the assistance of Count John I of Namur to Bruges. His attempts to move the population of Ghent into an alliance failed.

On May 1, 1302, he was one of the leaders involved in an assault on the castles Suisele and times, in which the entire French garrison Males were killed. Jacques de Châtillon de Coninck banished it again from the city. De Coninck, and Breydel, a butcher, which then resulted in the early morning hours of May 18, 1302, the revolt which broke into the houses in which the French garrison was quartered, and most of the soldiers killed.

De Coninck was now one of the leaders in the fight against the French and the Leliaarts. Shortly before the Battle of the Spurs on 11 July 1302 Pieter de Coninck and two of his sons were knighted.

1309 led Breydel and de Coninck again to Jan Heem another uprising in Bruges, which this time was directed against the impact of the Treaty of Athis -sur -Orge. 1321 he took a further part in an uprising in Bruges, in the course of which he was, however, punished and dispossessed.

• Frenchman
• Person ( Bruges )
• Born in the 13th century
• Died in the 14th century
• Man