Everything about The League Of The Public Weal totally explained
The
League of the Public Weal was an alliance of feudal nobles organized in
1465 in defiance of the centralized authority of King
Louis XI of
France. It was masterminded by
Charles the Bold, Count of Charolais, son of the
Duke of Burgundy, with the king's brother
Charles, Duke of Berry, as a figurehead.
League Membership
The League's members included:
- Charles, Duke of Berry, the king's teenage brother
- Charles, Count of Charolais, son and heir of the elderly Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy
- Francis II, Duke of Brittany
- John II, Duke of Alençon
- John II, Duke of Bourbon
- John II, Duke of Lorraine
- Jacques d'Armagnac, Duke of Nemours
- John V, Count of Armagnac
- Louis de Luxembourg, Count of Saint Pol
- Charles II, Count of Albret
- John, Count of Dunois, the illegitimate brother of the Duke of Orleans
- Antoine de Chabannes
- Frederick I, Elector Palatine
- John I, Duke of Cleves
- Duke of Bavaria
Background
In keeping with the policies of previous
Capetian and
Valois monarchs, Louis asserted the supremacy of the king within the territory of
France. Over the course of the preceding centuries, and during the
Hundred Years' War, the
French kings effected an administrative unification of the country. Unlike
Germany, which languished as a miscellany of feudal factions, France emerged from the
Middle Ages as a centralized state. But this centralization was opposed by the League of Public Weal, whose nobles sought to restore their feudal prerogatives.
Charles the Bold, as heir to the duke of Burgundy, whose fiefs in France included
Flanders, and who held the Imperial lands of
Holland and
Brabant, aspired to forge a kingdom of his own between France and Germany, approximating the former domains of the Frankish Emperor
Lothair I.
Results
Louis's response to the League was characteristic of his underhanded
diplomacy. He seemed to yield to its demands by granting
Normandy to his brother, returning contested cities on the
Somme to Burgundy, and even granting privileges to lesser nobles involved in the rebellion. But all these measures were merely calculated to break up the League. Within months of giving it up, he'd reclaimed Normandy.
Both Charles and Louis were prone to overreaching themselves, and Louis's machinations nearly resulted in military defeat at Charles's hands. However, insurrections in his newly acquired territories of
Lorraine and
Switzerland weakened Charles's efforts. Charles himself was killed in the
Battle of Nancy against the Swiss, and Louis was saved from his greatest adversary. He had already taken his revenge on Charles's allies within France. The great duchy of Burgundy was then absorbed into the kingdom of France. The League of the Public Weal was routed in its every objective.
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