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The Urban Uprising at Bruges, 1280-1281. Some New Findings about the Rebels and the Partisans

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The Urban Uprising at Bruges, 1280-81 Some New Findings about the Rebels

and the Partisansi1)

Agatha Anna BARDOEL

Early in October 1280, the Flemish city of Bruges experienced a civil revolt, led apparently, not by the commons (the gemeente) of this affluent, international trading city, but by the most respected members of the patrician class. In the course of his researches on this civil revolt, Carlos Wyffels published two previously unknown documents (2). The first is an inquiry into who was responsible for the revolt, conducted by Count Guy de Dampierre in May 1281. It names ten citizens considered ringleaders of the revolt, as well as 23 others who participated. The second document is a list of names compiled during May 1281, of citizens who agreed to stand as guarantors of the peace of the city, following a second outbreak of unrest (3). A third document, a letter written by the Count during May 1281, names those citizens who remained loyal to the Count by leaving the city in October 1280, when it was taken over by the rebels (4).

It was Wyffels' contribution to show that the rebel leaders who seized the city in October 1280, were not commoners, members of the cloth guilds of the city, as was the case elsewhere in the several urban revolts that occurred in Flanders in 1280(5). Rather, the rebels were patricians, wealthy merchants and bankers; six of the ten were actually members of the city's governing coun-

(1) It is a pleasure to thank Professor John Munro, Department of Economics, University of Toronto, for his enthusiasm and encouragement for this work and for his graduate seminar on the medieval economy, which led to my researches. He is, to paraphrase St. Anselm, a teacher "than which none greater can be thought".

(2) Carlos Wyffels, "Nieuwe gegevens betreffende een XlIIde eeuwse 'democratische' stedelijke opstand: de Brugse 'Moerlemaye' (1280-81)", Bulletin de la commission royale d'histoire. CXXXII (1966), p. 37-142.

(3) Wyffels, "Nieuwe gegevens", p. 108-127; documents are numbered 7 and 8.

(4) Wyffels, "Nieuwe gegevens", p. 128-29; document 9.

(5) Most notably, of course, in Ypres, for which see: G. Doudelez, "La révolution communale de 1280 à Ypres", Revue des questions historiques, LXVI, nr. 2, p. 58-78; nrs. 3 and 4, p. 3-25 (1938); also LXVII, nr. 1, p. 21-70 (1938). For Pirenne's traditional inter-

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