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Nobile funeral and seigneurial power at the Renaissance

Abstract

Known well for kings and princes of the end of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, the nobiliary burial remain more underestimated for a more modest nobility, the power of which established itself on the feudal property. Funeral belonged to the social rites intended to show the rank and the quality of someone and his family. Only really personal ceremony of the life of a gentleman, the death`np pagenum="130"/b of a noble distinguished itself from the death of a commoner. It was about a central event of the life of the seigneury, celebrated by the whole community. Every inhabitant honored the deceased and through him, his whole lineage. In the early modern France, the seigneurial death took the shape of a perfectly organized funeral pomp. Burial places also showed the nobiliary power. The constitution of family necropolises testified of a shape of specific social reproduction of the nobility. Dynastic sanctuaries, they offered a permanent frame to the celebration of the memory of the aristocratic relationship, where every ancestor was known. The pious foundations made age-old the family memory. They also showed the territorial power of a lineage. The attachment in the family graves is visible in the destructions which concerned the nobiliary graves during the religious wars. By destroying the grave of his enemy, we hurt him in what he had of more expensively: the memory of the ancestors, the presents spiritually and defenders of the family on earth and on its lands.

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