The De informatione principum, written for the future Louis X (r. 1314–1316), the eldest son of Philip the Fair and Jeanne of Navarre, gives instruction on the principles of just government through reflecting on Jeremiah (23. 5): A king shall reign and shall be wise and shall execute judgement and justice in the earth. I argue that this (as yet unedited) treatise was written by the Franciscan confessor to Jeanne of Navarre, Durand of Champagne, author of the Speculum dominarum. The verse of Jeremiah establishes the need for a king to identify and fix manifold injustices in the court and society. I argue that these injustices reformulate those identified in the Twelve Abuses of the Age within the very different context of the French royal court.
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