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FEUDALITY (from 887 to 1483) » Feudal royalty
French history in 100 tables by Paul Lehugeur

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ORIGINS (of 58 front. J.-C. with 887)

FEUDALITY (from 887 to 1483)

Any power of Feudality

Feudal royalty

18 - LOUIS VI, Progress of the Royalty. - Progress of the urban and rural populations

19 - LOUIS VII

20 - PHILIPPE AUGUSTE - RICHARD

21 - PHILIPPE AUGUSTE - JEAN WITHOUT GROUND

22 - PHILIPPE AUGUSTE - BOUVINES

23 - FOURTH CRUSADE

24 - LOUIS VIII, War of the Albigensians.

25 - LOUIS SAINT - WHITE OF CASTILLE

26 - LOUIS SAINT - LAST CRUSADE

27 - LOUIS SAINT - GOVERNMENT, Arts in XIIIe century. PHILIPPE III THE BOLD ONE

Decline of Feudality

One Hundred Years old war

Ruin Feudality

MONARCHY (of 1483 to 1789)

THE REVOLUTION

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Suger.

Suger was son of a man of the people of the surroundings of Saint-Omer.

Collected by charity with the abbey of Saint-Denis, it was raised there by the monks with the young person Louis VI, of which he became the friend, the adviser and the minister.

It was especially under the reign of Louis VII that it played a great part: regent of France during the absence of the king, treaty of equal to equal by the kings of England, Scotland and Sicily, it got busy entire to protect the poor and the weak ones, to continue the disturbers of public peace, to restore the churches and the fortresses.

Louis VII, on his return, decorated it with the title of father of the fatherland, and the chronicler who told his life finishes his account by these fine wordss: "It is the heart which makes the noble ones"

Saint Bernard preaches the crusade with Vézelay.

After the departure of the Crossed first, the Holy Land was reduced with a small number of defenders, and in 1144 the town of Edesse fell down to the capacity of the Moslems who massacred all the Christians there.

Saint Bernard preached one second crusade.

In Vézelay where the king and the largest lords had met to hear it, of the thousands of Christians asked to leave with the king: as the crosses missed, holy Bernard cut his coat in thin straps, and soon all the chests were decorated same symbol, just as all the hearts beat same enthusiasm (1146).

Alexandre III poses the first stone of Notre-Dame.

XIIe century is one time of transition in the history from art: the Romanesque architecture, which is in all its splendour in XIIe century, made place with the ogival or Gothic architecture, whose exact name would be the French architecture of the Middle Ages: the semicircular arch is replaced by the warhead; the naves are hurled and are outwards pressed on buttresses and on propping up, which are transformed into new ornaments.

Notre-Dame of Paris east, with the cathedrals of Senlis, Boundary-line, Laon and Soissons, one of the first ogival churches: the first stone was posed by it in 1163 by the pope Alexandre III.

Under Louis VII, son of Louis VI (1137-1180), the royalty still makes some progress, especially thanks to Suger, abbot of Saint-Denis, which controls during the absences of the king.

Louis VII fact initially a short war with the count de Champagne, to force it with obedience.

Carried by anger, it sets fire to the town of Vitry (1142), out of Champagne, then tormented by the remorses and which exhorted by Bernard saint, it undertakes the voyage of Ground-Holy for expier his fault (1147); but the second crusade, to which it takes share with the Emperor of Germany Conrad, has few results: the German army and a part of the French Army is successively destroyed in Asia Mineure, and Louis VII can only visit Jerusalem.

On its return of Palestine (1149), he divorces his wife Éléonore de Guyenne; but this one remarie soon with Henri II Plantagenêt, count d' Anjou, duke of Normandy and soon king d' Angleterre; fields of Éléonore, i.e.

Guyenne, Gascogne, the Angoumois, Saintonge and Poitou pass thus to England instead of returning to France.

Henri II, who has all the Western part of the kingdom, turns himself against the king of France, his suzerain; but Louis VII defends himself thanks to the force of the feudal bond and with alliance with the Church.

Henri II, on the contrary, sees his efforts paralysed by his fight with the archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Becket, and by the continual revolts of his four sons.

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