Open AccessA matter of trust: the royal regulation of England's French residents during wartime, 1294–1377
Author(s) -
Lambert Bart,
Ormrod W. Mark
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
historical research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.203
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1468-2281
pISSN - 0950-3471
DOI - 10.1111/1468-2281.12127
Subject(s) - crown (dentistry) , flexibility (engineering) , government (linguistics) , history , period (music) , alien , economic history , kingdom , ancient history , government office , political science , law , local government , management , medicine , art , politics , economics , paleontology , linguistics , philosophy , dentistry , citizenship , biology , aesthetics
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.