Jacquerie
Jacquerie was a large uprising in late medieval Europe. It happened in 1358, when French peasants were protesting heavy taxation in the Oise valley north of Paris.
Jacquerie Media
Prisoners in an illuminated manuscript by Jean Froissart.
King John II, along his fourteen-year-old son, Philip, was captured by the English at the Battle of Poitiers.
The assassination of Étienne Marcel
The re-entry of Dauphin Charles into Paris after the assassination of Étienne Marcel in an illustration of ca. 1455–1460 by Jean Fouquet in the Grandes Chroniques de France
Defeat of the Jacquerie in Meaux on 9 June 1358
King Charles II of Navarre had the leaders of the Jacquerie executed. Illustration from the Chroniques de France ou de St Denis dating from after 1380.
