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310:, where the Dauphin was sheltering with his family. Dauphin Charles fled, leaving his wife and daughter to be besieged in the castle of Marché. This did not however divert the King of Navarre, whose force arrived on 10 June. Promising safe passage, Charles of Navarre offered Cale a chance to discuss treaty terms in his camp, an opportunity Cale accepted. He left his lines, having prepared an efficient defense and entered the lines of the opposing forces. Charles did not however keep to his word and Cale was seized. The army of Jacques was destroyed in the ensuing 117: 182: 22: 294:
Cale conducted a campaign of reduction against local castles and forts designed to give his army more mobility, and his troops were substantial enough that they were able to menace local towns into feeding them under threat of destruction. The rebellion spread all around Paris, and it was said flames
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Cale was sympathetic to the Parisians, and so when a similar rebellion began to ferment in the Beauvais region, he rose to become its leader, forming bands of peasants, villagers and brigands into a fairly cohesive though ill-equipped force. Cale and his supporters were able to overcome the scattered
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opposition from noble bodyguards and retainers and take control of the region. Loosely organized, the rebel bands ran amok, killing hundreds of nobles, retainers, and their wives and families amid scenes of brutality. Cale was joined by contingents from the towns of
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Cale was taken in irons to Clermont where, following torture, he was beheaded in the town square, along with some of the remnants of his army. (Some accounts offer that he was tortured to death by being crowned with a red-hot crown.)
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on 10 June. Cale's origins are unknown; it is not clear how old he was at the time of the uprising, nor is anything known about his family and business ties, except that he was a reasonably well-off farmer.
267:. His exorbitant ransom began to drain the already depleted French treasury and the authority exercised by the nobility diminished. In the spring of 1358 violence broke out in Paris, as a clothier named 302:
On 7 June, just a few weeks after the uprising began, Cale drew his forces up on a hill near his hometown of Mello and awaited the arrival of a force of nobles and mercenaries commanded by King
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The Jacquerie was destroyed and major reprisals were undertaken against the peasants who had threatened the social order of medieval
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and eventually could field 5,000 men, including several minor nobles, whose military experience gave his force structure.
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could be seen from the walls on all sides. Amongst the castles taken was a royal dwelling at
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which broke out in May 1358 and continued for a month unchecked until the
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and formed a revolutionary commune, presided over by Marcel.
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seized the city with an army of townsmen, drove out the
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In 1358 the Beauvais was perhaps the only region of
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