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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: The consuls of Agen from the end of the Hundred Years War to the beginning of the wars of religion Abstract: Consuls during the Renaissance executed political power for the leading men of Agen, the proome , and claimed to govern for the entire community. This study explains the situation in which the consuls governed when supporters of English monarchs and those of the French finally resolved the century-long civil war to determine which dynasty would rule the kingdom. The proome established self-government in Agen, and amidst the crises of the Albigensian Crusade, a 1248 revolt in Agen, and the Hundred Years War, the consuls became the dominant political institution in the town. The consuls provided one source of justice in the community, deriving their authority from Agen\'s constitutional basis of written customs, charters of privileges, and actions taken by governing officials. Three institutions--the seigneur and king of France, the bishop, and the consuls--traditionally shared power in Agen, but in the century leading to Reformation and religious civil war, the consuls and royal officials increasingly claimed and commanded that power, resulting in repeated conflicts with clergy and growing authority for those elite of Agen who served as royal justices. Local proome , serving as both consuls and royal justices, undermined the traditional role of the bishop in Agen and thereby upset a balance of power within the community. |
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