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Encyclopedia > Count of Champagne

The Counts of Champagne ruled the region of Champagne, France from 1022 to 1314. Hugues of Champagne was the first of the family to officially use the title "Count of Champagne". Champagne is one of the traditional provinces of France, a region of France that is best known for the production of the sparkling white wine that bears the regions name. ... Events Several Catharist heretics are killed in Toulouse. ... Events June 24 - Battle of Bannockburn. ... Hughes of Champagne (French: Hugues de Champagne, c. ... A count is a nobleman in most European countries, equivalent in rank to a British earl, whose wife is still a countess. Originally the title comes denoted the rank of a high official in the late Roman Empire: before Anthemius was made emperor in the West in 467, he was...


When Louis became King of France in 1314, upon the death of his father Philip IV, Champagne became part of the Crown's territories. The titular counts of Champagne also inherited the post of seneschal of France. Kings ruled in France from the Middle Ages to 1848. ... Events June 24 - Battle of Bannockburn. ... Philippe IV, recumbent statue on his tomb, Royal Necropolis, Saint Denis Basilica Philip IV (French: Philippe IV; 1268–November 29, 1314) was King of France from 1285 until his death. ... A seneschal was an officer in the houses of important nobles in the Middle Ages. ...

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References

  • Theodore Evergates, Feudal Society in the Baillage of Troyes under the Counts of Champagne, 1152-1284 ISBN 0801816637
  • Theodore Evergates, Feudal Society in Medieval France: Documents from the County of Champagne, ISBN 0812214412 (paperback), ISBN 0812232259 (hardback)
  • Theodore Evergates, 'The Aristocracy of Champagne in the Mid-Thirteenth Century: A Quantitative Description', 'Journal of Interdisciplinary History', vol. 5. pp. 1-18 (1974)

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Champagne (province) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (393 words)
Until 1284 the County of Champagne was in essence an independent territory, whose count nominally owed fealty to the king of France.
It was to the interest of the Count of Champagne, virtually independent of his nominal suzerain, the King of France, to extend the liberties and prerogatives of the towns.
Traditional historians have dated the decline of the Champagne fairs to the conquest of Champagne by Philip the Bold in 1273 and its inclusion within the Crown of France by Philip IV in 1284.
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