| The Cartulary of Countess Blanche of Champagne Subjects: Blanche de Navarre comtesse de Champagne d. 1229 -- Archives; Champagne-Ardenne (France) -- Charters grants privileges; Champagne-Ardenne (France) -- Politics and government -- Sources; Champagne-Ardenne (France) -- History -- To 1500 -- Sources; Nob; The 443 letters contained in the cartulary deal with practical matters of governance such as homages, fiefs, and the rights of lordship, and are here used by Evergates as a dossier for observing the practices of a major French principality and its aristocracy in the first two decades of the thirteenth century. Evergates Theodore : Theodore Evergates is a professor in the Department of History at McDaniel College. |