[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":25},["ShallowReactive",2],{"zoom:p5ch14z4:en":3},{"period":4,"chapter":15,"zoom":18},{"id":5,"title":6,"titleEn":6,"titleEs":7,"coverArtworkId":8,"range":9,"rangeEn":9,"rangeEs":9,"cover":10},"p5","High Middle Ages","Plena Edad Media","hannibal-alpes","987 → 1453",{"fileName":11,"filePageUrl":12,"imageUrl":13,"sourceLabel":14},"Facade-notre-dame-paris-ciel-bleu.JPG","https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Facade-notre-dame-paris-ciel-bleu.JPG","/assets/p5-moyen-age-classique-cover.png","Wikimedia Commons",{"id":16,"title":17},"p5ch14","Charles IV the Fair: The Last Direct Capetian and Dynastic Shift (1322–1328)",{"id":19,"title":20,"chapterId":16,"html":21,"hasEn":22,"isFallback":23,"seoDescription":24},"p5ch14z4","Governing After Crises: Coinage, Fiscal, and Officers","\u003Cp>In the 1320s, governing means stabilizing: restoring confidence, ensuring revenues, and controlling agents of the king. Charles IV follows in the administrative continuity consolidated under Philip V, continuing bureaucratization and seeking economies.\u003C/p>\n\u003Chr>\n\u003Ch2>💱 Coinage and Confidence\u003C/h2>\n\u003Cp>Monetary mutations and price tensions make the economic order fragile. The power seeks to limit imbalances and preserve a minimum of predictability for taxation and commerce. As an expedient, the crown also uses taxes on merchandise.\u003C/p>\n\u003Chr>\n\u003Ch2>🧾 Fiscality and Compromise\u003C/h2>\n\u003Cp>After the revolts and provincial charters of Louis X’s reign, the monarchy advances with caution: it wants resources, but must avoid reactivating local resistance. Among the expedients, confiscations touch merchant networks, notably \u003Cstrong>Italian merchants\u003C/strong>.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>Another resource is a \u003Cstrong>tithe\u003C/strong> levied with papal agreement, officially in the name of crusade, but useful for refilling the coffers.\u003C/p>\n\u003Chr>\n\u003Ch2>🧑‍⚖️ Officers: Control to Govern\u003C/h2>\n\u003Cp>The reign continues Capetian logic: investigate abuses, punish, reorganize. Charles IV punishes Lombard financiers and targets embezzlement: he has \u003Cstrong>Giraud Gayte\u003C/strong>, former superintendent of finances under Philip V, arrested, accused of massive embezzlement. He replaces him with \u003Cstrong>Pierre de Rémi\u003C/strong>, who will in turn be executed under the following reign for corruption.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>At the chancellery, Charles IV first relies on \u003Cstrong>Pierre Rodier\u003C/strong> (his former chancellor in the county of La Marche), then \u003Cstrong>Jean de Cherchemont\u003C/strong> takes the post in 1323. Under the renewed influence of \u003Cstrong>Charles of Valois\u003C/strong>, men like treasurer \u003Cstrong>Jean Billouart\u003C/strong> enter government. We also find legalists like \u003Cstrong>Guillaume de la Brosse\u003C/strong>, \u003Cstrong>Raoul of Presles\u003C/strong>, and \u003Cstrong>Guillaume Flote\u003C/strong>.\u003C/p>\n\u003Chr>\n\u003Ch2>🧠 Key Points to Remember\u003C/h2>\n\u003Cul>\n\u003Cli>Stabilizing coinage and revenues is vital after social crises.\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>Crusade tithe, confiscations, and taxes serve as receipts as well.\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>Control of officers is a central instrument of royal power.\u003C/li>\n\u003C/ul>\n",true,false,"In the 1320s, governing means stabilizing: restoring confidence, ensuring revenues, and controlling agents of the king. Charles IV follows in the",1778543135276]