The Late Medieval "Crisis of the Nobility" Reconsidered: The Case of Flanders

Buylaert, Frederik

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“…In the county of Flanders, also a Netherlandish principality, only around 42 per cent of the 228 noble lineages that had been active in the second half of the fourteenth century persisted up until the turn of the sixteenth centuryeven while the total number of active families remained roughly the same. 42 In a similar vein, most historians hold that the seigneuries of the late medieval Low Countries, and of the Burgundian power zone more generally, were gradually appropriated by an ever-smaller group of powerful families. For example, Raymond Van Uytven has demonstrated that a sample of 55 lordships in the duchy of Brabant that were held by 55 lords in 1415, were held by 44 lords in 1490, by 36 in 1525, and had come to be concentrated in the hands of only 33 lords in 1565.…”

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Seigneurial governance and the state in late medieval Guelders (14th–16th century)

Meulen

2021

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This article charts the long-term development of seigneurial governance within the principality of Guelders in the Low Countries. Proceeding from four quantitative cross-sections (c. 1325, 1475, 1540, 1570) of seigneurial lordships, the conclusion is that seigneurial governance remained stable in late medieval Guelders. The central argument is that this persistence of seigneurial governance was an effect of active collaboration between princely administrations, lords, and local communities. Together, the princely government and seigneuries of Guelders formed an integrated, yet polycentric, state. The article thereby challenges the narrative of progressive state centralisation that predominates in the historiography of pre-modern state formation.

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Section: Stability Of Seigneurial Governance C 1325-c 1570mentioning

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Seigneurial governance and the state in late medieval Guelders (14th–16th century)

Meulen

2021

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“… 3 See, however, the importance of the nobility in government in the Low Countries, Upper Germany, and Milan in Gamberini; Hardy; Buylaert, 2012.…”

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In Support of Pontifical Power: The Papacy and the Papal States’ Baronial Nobility, 1417–49

Luiten

2023

Renaiss. Q.

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This article addresses the baronial nobility's much-neglected role in supporting the reestablishment of pontifical power in the wake of the Western Schism. In doing so, this article stresses how acts of noble revolt were complemented by extensive patterns of collaboration in the Papal States’ government, armies, and relations with other principalities. The nobility proved to be a fundamental source of support—a support that was theorized around and expressed in the language of fealty and devotion. In light of this, my analysis further contributes to the study of the perseverance of noble power and ubiquity of transregional factions in late medieval societies.

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Reputation as a common source of cooperation and violent conflict: The case of the noble feud in early modern Germany

Zmora

2020

Evolution and Human Behavior

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The Late Medieval "Crisis of the Nobility" Reconsidered: The Case of Flanders

Cited by 10 publications

References 23 publications

Seigneurial governance and the state in late medieval Guelders (14th–16th century)

Seigneurial governance and the state in late medieval Guelders (14th–16th century)

In Support of Pontifical Power: The Papacy and the Papal States’ Baronial Nobility, 1417–49

Reputation as a common source of cooperation and violent conflict: The case of the noble feud in early modern Germany

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