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Unknown success of the last Cape teenagers: the annexation of the Lusignan domains and the use of the Lèse-majesté concept (1308-1327)

Abstract

The dynasty of the counts of La Marche and Angouleme, from the family of Lusignan, passed away at the beginning of the 14th century, leaving its estates to the king of France. The internal conflicts between its members led to successive successoral crisis, allowing Philip the Fair to interfere into the sharing of the inherintance. He seized the whole Lusignan land just before the death of the last count, Guy de Lusignan, who tried to ally himself with the king of England in order to offset the Capetian authority. The French royal officers began with all the deceased’s beneficiaries a series of negociations using the legal idea of “crime de lèse-majesté” to justify the seizure and the royal refusal to give back the lands in order to force them to withdraw from their claims. Thanks to this, Philip IV has annexed to the royal desmene all the Lusignan’s estates in Poitou and Brittany and their counties of La Marche and Angoulême. It were one of his reign’s main territorial acquisition and the most successful but, as he immediately took advantage of it to assign an appanage to his third son, it had remain little known. Moreover, taking place just after the great political trials against Bernard Saisset, Boniface VIII and the knight templars, this seizing, using the concept of lese-majesty, ends its shift in meaning and represents an unknown milestone in the formation of the idea of high treason and the constitution of juridical political machinery.

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