A Matter of Trust: The Royal Regulation of England's French Residents during Wartime, 1294-1377

Lambert, Bart; Ormrod, W. Mark

Abstract

This study focuses on how the English crown identified and categorized French-born people in the kingdom during the preliminaries and first stage of the Hundred Years War. Unlike the treatment of alien priories and nobles holding lands on both sides of the Channel, the attitude to laypeople became more positive as the period progressed. In particular, the crown was prepared to grant wartime protections to French-born residents based on evidence of local integration. Analysis of the process reveals the flexibility with which the government considered national status before the emergence of denization at the end of the fourteenth century.

Citation

Lambert, B., & Ormrod, W. M. (2016). A Matter of Trust: The Royal Regulation of England's French Residents during Wartime, 1294-1377. Historical Research, 89(244), 208-226. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2281.12127

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Dec 26, 2014
• Online Publication Date: Jan 9, 2016
• Publication Date: May 1, 2016
• Deposit Date: Mar 18, 2015
• Publicly Available Date: Mar 24, 2015
• Journal: Historical Research
• Print ISSN: 0950-3471
• Electronic ISSN: 1468-2281
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 89
• Issue: 244
• Pages: 208-226
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2281.12127
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1435178