Franc-stronghold
In France, with the the Middle Ages and under the Old Mode, the franc-stronghold is a royal tax seigneurial then which had by a commoner purchaser of a noble good.
This tax is the compensation of the reduction in the value of the stronghold thus amputee. In the beginning it is payable at all the levels of the feudal hierarchy. Then only at three levels, the king included/understood. Finally only the king perceives it.
This right is due every 20 years or at the time of an unexpected change. It is payable at the conclusion of the first year of possession. The Artois and the Franche-Comté pay it only once. Until the royal declaration of 1771, which puts an end to the exemption, certain areas do not pay the franc-stronghold: Anjou, areas of Abbeville, of Chartres, of Orleans, the Pole. The ecclesiastics and the commensaux of the king of it are free. A way of escaping from it was to buy a Office anoblissant then to acquire a noble good.
This right which slowed down the sale of the noble grounds and increased acquisition of it was badly seen of the nobility and the concerned middle-class of land placements. The Registers of grievances of 1789 require the suppression of it.
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