
Published online:
23 January 2020
Published in print:
15 May 2019
Online ISBN:
9781501736209
Print ISBN:
9781501736193
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Chronicles and Controls Chronicles and Controls
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The Prefatory Perspective The Prefatory Perspective
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Metz, before 1290 Metz, before 1290
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The Move to Flanders, before 1297 The Move to Flanders, before 1297
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At the Siege of Lille, June–September 1297 At the Siege of Lille, June–September 1297
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Connecting Capetian Sanctity in 1297 Connecting Capetian Sanctity in 1297
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From the Canonization of Louis IX to the Battle of Courtrai From the Canonization of Louis IX to the Battle of Courtrai
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The Abortive Attack on Flanders, September 1302 The Abortive Attack on Flanders, September 1302
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The Plot to Poison Charles of Anjou, 1303 The Plot to Poison Charles of Anjou, 1303
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Arrest, Torture, and Confession, 1304 Arrest, Torture, and Confession, 1304
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Chapter
5 Paupertas of Metz: Peacemaker, Prophet, or Poisoner?
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152–181
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Published:May 2019
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Field, Sean L., 'Paupertas of Metz: Peacemaker, Prophet, or Poisoner?', Courting Sanctity: Holy Women and the Capetians (Ithaca, NY , 2019; online edn, Cornell Scholarship Online, 23 Jan. 2020), https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501736193.003.0009, accessed 28 Apr. 2025.
Abstract
This chapter highlights the recently-discovered story of a woman called Paupertas, who came from Metz to Lille and gained the trust of King Philip IV and Jeanne of Navarre during peace-making activities at Philip’s siege of Lille. But in 1302, when Philip IV marched north to try to avenge the catastrophic defeat of French forces at the Battle of Courtrai, Paupertas reported a prophecy by which God warned the king of France not to attack the Flemings. After Philip’s embarrassing retreat, his brother, Charles of Valois, had Paupertas arrested and tortured into confessing that she had sought to poison him.
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