Berenger of Plaits
Berenger of Plaits (born towards 1325, with Rodez, in Rouergue - died in? ).
In 1360, the Traité of Brétigny imposes the handing-over of South-west on the England.
In 1368, Berenger of Plaits, 1st Consul of Rodez, refuses with the Council of the City to pay the tax with the English. The latter put it in prison at Villefranche de Rouergue.
It contributes to the rising of the population ruthénoise against the English.
In 1369, Berenger of Plaits, consul and citizen of Rodez, was anobli with his/her children and all his posterity born and has to be born, of the one and the other sex, by the King Charles V because of the services which it had rendered to the king, “ particularly by subjecting the town of Rodez to its obedience, and by attracting it with its party accurately and praiseworthily .” (Letters patent of Charles V, March 4th 1369, recorded with the room of the accounts of Paris the same day, by express command of the king, and in the Seneschalsy of Villefranche-with-Rouergue in 1372). It accepted moreover a pension.
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