HIST 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Pope Urban Vi, Hanseatic League, Geoffrey Chaucer
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Aristocrats competed for personal power and used public office, military command and taxing power. What mattered was marriage alliances, kinship and dynastic ambitions: the struggle for central europe, the luxembourgs, wittelsbachs, hasburgs, premysls and the house of. German peasants: by 15th century, religious and secular german lords had established a new agrarian economy, modeled on western. England and the flemish cloth towns, which provided the english with their wool early in the 14th century, flemish artisans revolted against the aristocratic cloth dealers who monopolized the power the french sided with the wealthy merchants and the. English and ending the siege joan was captured and burned at the stake in rouen in 1431, with the french king charles making no attempt to save her ix. The houses of york (white rose) and lancaster (red rose) fought for 30 years to determine royal succession (war of the roses) . Henry tudor of the lancastrian faction won and became the first.