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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Governance of a Feudal State | |
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| Feudal Policies | |
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| Permission to Clairvaux to acquire fiefs, ca. 1145 | |
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| The count acquires a castle and grants fiefs for castle-guard, 1200 | |
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| The assignment of a new fief, 1201 | |
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| Liege homage is imposed on a younger brother in 1201 | |
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| Authorization to build a castle, 1206 | |
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| An exemption to the castle policy, 1223 | |
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| An allodial castle is feudalized, 1221 | |
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| Confiscation of an unauthorized alienation, 1234 | |
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| The repurchase of a fief, 1244 | |
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| The great feudal inquest, 1249-1250 | |
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| Unauthorized alienations to the church, 1250-1252 | |
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| Restrictions on Templar acquisitions, 1191, 1255 | |
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| Authorization to acquire feudal property, 1260 | |
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| Royal taxation of alienated fiefs, 1291 | |
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| Count Thibaut V taxes his feudal tenants, 1257 | |
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| Rural and Urban Policies | |
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| Count Henry franchises a new village, 1175 | |
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| A joint sponsorship (pariage) of a new community, 1223 | |
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| The communal franchises of 1230-1232 | |
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| A tax on the Jews, 1222 | |
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| The Fairs of Champagne | |
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| Regulations of the Fairs of May, 1164 | |
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| The official weigh station, 1174 | |
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| Cloth merchants must pay the sales tax, 1175 | |
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| Clothmakers at Provins must be residents, ca. 1223 | |
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| The merchants of Piacenza are banned from the fairs, 1243 | |
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| Family Affairs | |
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| Marriage and Divorce | |
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| An unconsummated marriage is undone, 1153 | |
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| A prenuptial agreement, 1205 | |
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| A baronial dowry, 1223 | |
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| A contract of marriage between knightly families, 1231 | |
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| Count Thibaut IV's marriage contract, 1233 | |
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| A projected divorce settlement, 1224 | |
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| A marriage depends on a divorce, 1231 | |
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| A woman takes her estranged husband to court, 1284 | |
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| Inheritances | |
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| A younger son contests his inheritance, 1215 | |
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| Fiefs are allotted to future heirs, 1230 | |
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| The statute on the female inheritance of castles, 1212 | |
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| The custom regarding feudal inheritances, ca. 1270, 1287 | |
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| The age of feudal majority, 1278 | |
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| An inquest on the age of Countess Jeanne, 1284 | |
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| When a noblewoman marries a commoner, ca. 1270 | |
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| The Dower Custom | |
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| Count Thibaut III dowers Countess Blanche, 1199 | |
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| The seneschal's wife does homage for her dower lands, 1209 | |
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| Two knights dower their wives, 1221, 1223 | |
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| The dower custom of Champagne, ca. 1270 | |
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| Ecclesiastical Placements | |
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| Abbess Heloise founds the convent of La Pommeraye, ca. 1147 | |
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| Countess Marie and her tutor at Avenay, 1159 | |
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| Limitation on the number of nuns at Avenay, 1201 | |
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| A knight becomes a monk at Clairvaux, ca. 1205 | |
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| The lord of Reynel becomes a monk at Clairvaux, 1216 | |
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| The castellan of Vitry places his daughter in Avenay, 1238 | |
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| Pope Urban IV orders a convent to accept a literate girl, 1262 | |
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| Testaments | |
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| The testament of the knight Hagan of Ervy, ca. 1190 | |
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| The testament of the knight Erard of Nully, 1249 | |
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| The testament of Count Thibaut V, 1257 | |
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| The testament of Lady Marie of Esternay, 1279 | |
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| Feudal Affairs and Lordship | |
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| Notifications | |
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| A renunciation and a renewal of homage, 1216, 1219 | |
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| A sale of the mouvance of rear-fiefs, 1219 | |
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| A knight's family must approve his sale, 1226 | |
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| Permission to sell a rear-fief, 1229 | |
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| The two seals of the lady of Ramerupt, 1222 | |
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| The former chamberlain does not recall a grant, 1238 | |
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| The lord of Vignory corrects King Louis IX, 1239 | |
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| A cadet pays relief for his brother's fief, 1252 | |
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| Feudal tenants must pay homage to a new lord, 1252 | |
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| The nobles of Champagne protest royal taxation, 1314 | |
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| Mortgages, Debts, and Sales | |
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| Castles are mortgaged to the count, 1201, 1210 | |
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| A baron's debt to a Sienese merchant, 1224 | |
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| A baron's debt to the count's Jews, 1231 | |
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| A fief is mortgaged to the Hospitallers, 1231 | |
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| A fief is mortgaged to the Cistercians, 1238 | |
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| The custom regarding feudal mortgages, ca. 1270 | |
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| A knight creates an annuity, 1202 | |
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| A real estate transaction, 1219-1220 | |
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| A lady has misplaced a letter of debt, 1245 | |
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| Lordship | |
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| A new village is dismantled, 1171 | |
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| A lord's rights over his villagers, 1203 | |
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| The lord of Chacenay exacts four extraordinary taxes, 1218 | |
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| The High Court upholds Jean of Joinville's rights, 1288 | |
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| The Crusades | |
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| The Templars | |
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| William of Tyre describes the Templars in 1118 | |
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| Bernard of Clairvaux, In Praise of the New Knighthood, ca. 1130 | |
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| A gift to the Templars, 1201 | |
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| Prince Henry and the Second Crusade | |
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| A letter of introduction to the Byzantine emperor, 1147 | |
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| Louis VII praises Henry to his father, 1149 | |
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| Bernard complains to Abbot Suger about a tournament, 1149 | |
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| Henry requests a meeting with Abbot Suger, 1149 | |
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| Bernard consoles Countes Mathilda over her son's behavior, ca. 1152 | |
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| Preparing for a Crusade | |
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| Josbert of La Ferte-sur-Aube settles his affairs, 1146 | |
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| A townsman of Troyes finances his journey, 1147 | |
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| Count Henry II collects the Saladin Tithe, 1188 | |
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| A knight finances his sons' trip to Constantinople, 1212 | |
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| The seneschal describes his preparations, 1248 | |
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| Consequences of the Crusades | |
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| The High Court considers a pilgrim's prolonged absence, 1166 | |
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| Count Henry's vow while a hostage, 1182 | |
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| The Rule of the Order of Trinitarians, 1198 | |
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| A mother seeks to ransom her son, 1215 | |
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| A thirty-year captivity, 1233 | |
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| Acts of Violence, Liberality, and Charity | |
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| Violence | |
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| An assassination attempt on Count Hugh, 1104 | |
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| Count Henry resists the archbishop of Reims, 1171-1172 | |
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| The death of an excommunicated marshal, 1185 | |
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| The great fire at Troyes, 1188 | |
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| A holocaust of heretics, 1239 | |
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| The wrath of nuns, 1266 | |
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| Liberality | |
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| The Cistercian monastery of Vauluisant, 1127 | |
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| Clairvaux is exempted from tolls and taxes, 1154 | |
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| The Cistercian convent of Argensolles, 1224 | |
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| Charity | |
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| Foundation of the hospital of La Barre, 1211 | |
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| Fish for the Cistercian Chapter General meeting, 1216 | |
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| Light for Clairvaux and its charnel house, 1223 | |
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| Clothing and shoes for the poor, 1228 | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |