Its origins came in the depradations caused by English mercenaries following the battle of Poitiers and a series of tax hikes made by the future Charles V in the effort to ransom Jean II.
Its origins came in the depradations caused by English mercenaries following the battle of Poitiers and a series of tax hikes made by the future Charles V in the effort to ransom Jean II. On May 1358 violence erupted in Compigne when forces under Guillaume Cale slaughtered a large number of arostocrats and by June it had spread to Paris before it was crushed by Gaston Phoebus de Foix and Charles II of Navarre. FTP identify this uprising, named for the contemptuous name given to peasants by aristocrats, a term which was later applied to any peasant revolt.
Its origins came in the depradations caused by English mercenaries following the battle of Poitiers and a series of tax hikes made by the future Charles V in the effort to ransom Jean II.
the {Jacquerie}