[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":25},["ShallowReactive",2],{"zoom:p5ch16z24: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},"p5ch16","John II the Good: Captivity, Internal Crisis, and the Treaty of Brétigny (1350–1364)",{"id":19,"title":20,"chapterId":16,"html":21,"hasEn":22,"isFallback":23,"seoDescription":24},"p5ch16z24","1360–1362: Great Companies, Rolleboise, and Brignais","\u003Cp>The truce from Brétigny has a perverse effect: thousands of fighters find themselves unpaid. Structured bands, called \u003Cstrong>Great Companies\u003C/strong>, live off the country, occupy places, extort roads, and paralyze the economy. War becomes permanent insecurity.\u003C/p>\n\u003Chr>\n\u003Ch2>🧨 Mercenaries and “Cold War”\u003C/h2>\n\u003Cp>Often English or Gascon, these groups claim England or Navarre depending on opportunity. They serve rivalries: \u003Cstrong>Edward III\u003C/strong> can let mercenaries act under Navarrese colors, which nourishes popular hostility toward “English” and also discredits Charles II of Navarre, perceived as complicit.\u003C/p>\n\u003Chr>\n\u003Ch2>🏰 Rolleboise: Hold a Place, Control a Valley\u003C/h2>\n\u003Cp>Captains seize fortresses in their own names. The keep of \u003Cstrong>Rolleboise\u003C/strong> becomes a celebrated example: controlling a place means controlling a circulation axis and thus levying tolls, ransoms, and tribute. The companies also establish themselves on major routes, notably the \u003Cstrong>Saône\u003C/strong> and \u003Cstrong>Rhône\u003C/strong> valleys, a north-south commercial corridor reinforced by papal presence in Avignon.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>One attempts to buy them: they often cash in without leaving. One attempts to employ them elsewhere: they return. One attempts to oppose them: the strategy fails.\u003C/p>\n\u003Chr>\n\u003Ch2>⚔️ April 6, 1362: Brignais, Military Disaster\u003C/h2>\n\u003Cp>On \u003Cstrong>April 6, 1362\u003C/strong>, royal troops are beaten at \u003Cstrong>Brignais\u003C/strong>. The defeat illustrates the limits of an army dependent on fragile recruitment: mercenary contingents can leave the battlefield, and victory turns to collapse.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>The episode also costs politically: one must pay ransoms to free captured figures, like \u003Cstrong>William of Melun\u003C/strong>.\u003C/p>\n\u003Chr>\n\u003Ch2>🧠 To Remember\u003C/h2>\n\u003Cul>\n\u003Cli>The truce creates a security crisis: the companies replace war with armed banditry.\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>Brignais shows impotence against “private” forces.\u003C/li>\n\u003C/ul>\n",true,false,"The truce from Brétigny has a perverse effect: thousands of fighters find themselves unpaid. Structured bands, called Great Companies , live off the country,",1778543137648]