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Le Moyen Age
De Boeck Université

I.S.B.N.2-8041-5167-0
202 pages

p. 307 à 336
doi: en cours

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Du donjon au tribunal.

Les deux âges de la pairie châtelaine en France du Nord, Flandre et Lotharingie (fin XIe-XIIIe s.) (2e partie)

Jean-François NIEUS
Résumé de l'article
In some fifty major castles (seats of castellanies, of second-rank counties or of principalities) in the North of France and the South of Flanders, and to a lesser extent in Lotharingia, small group of knights – usually around twelve – started to use the title of “castle peers” (pares castri) from the end of the 11th century. Only those who owned specific fiefs, called “peerage fiefs”, which involved well-defined services to the castle, could belong to such colleges of knights. Both the origin and the functions of this so far little known institution are here interpreted anew on the basis of all acknowledged instances in available sources. An introductive chapter offers a survey of the various groups of castle peers, accounting for their geographical distribution and examining clues that establish the beginning of the phenomenon at the turn of the 12th century (first part of the article, published here). Next we try to define the original situation of those peers, using the unwieldy tools offered by late documents that focus more on changes the institution was subject to at the end of the 12th century (second part of the article, to be published in the next issue). The members of the peerage seem to have been the elite among the nobility of the territory dominated by the castle to which they were linked. Several clues indicate that their service was originally of a military nature: the peers were responsible for defending the castle where they would serve for a long yearly period of guard (called estage). It was suggested that the institution appeared in the 11th century at the time when a “deconcentration” of the castellan society was beginning, and that it made it possible for the most distinguished among the milites castri to maintain a priviledged relationship with the castle and its protective structures, while at the same time dramatically standing out among the lower vassals involved in the castle-controlled network. At the turn of the 13th century peerage entered a second stage: as the castellan lordship turned away from a military structure, its warlike function rapidly faded and was often replaced by a jurisdictional function developed in the context of the feudal court or of the overlord’s or prince’s tribunal. However its social function remained unchanged.Keywords : peerage, knighthood, feudal system, castle, castle, guard service.
Plan de l'article
• 2. Les pairs au château : fonctions, statut, signification
— Que font les pairs, à l’origine ?
— Qui sont les pairs ?
— Pourquoi la pairie ?
• 3. Entre déclin et renouveau : les mutations de la pairie
• Conclusion


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