War of hottée of apples

The war of hottée of apples is a war between Lorraine lords , which lasts of 1428 with 1429.

Context

Lorraine during the Middle Ages, and in particular the 14th and 15th, was centuries afflicted by the wars. The Lorraine lords (duke of Lorraine, count, then duke of Bar, count de Vaudémont, bishops of Metz, bishops of Toul and bishops of Verdun, quoted of Metz) were perpetually in fight. In 1427, the very many accumulated tensions burst following a tiny incident.

The Abbaye of Saint-Martin-the-Metz depended on the duchy of Lorraine. However, in 1427, the abbot of Saint Martin's day made there gather one hottée of apples in his garden and made bear the fruits in the city of Metz.

The duke Charles II of Lorraine then claimed a right on these fruits, that the magistrates of Metz refused to allocate to him, like opposite to the franknesses and privileges of the city.

" The monks of Saint Martin's day delivered opinion of them to the officers of the duke of Lorraine, who asked for several times, in the name of their Master, certain rights on these fruits, at a rate of their exit of the States of Lorraine to enter Metz. The Residents of Metz refused to pay, applicant that was contrary with their franknesses. The war was born from this incident, one called for that the " War of hottée of Pommes".

The conflict

The duke thus declared the war with the Residents of Metz, war amplified by the play of various alliances.

Indeed, for the circumstance, Charles II had been combined with the duke of Bar, Rene Ier of Anjou, which is also king de Sicile, and the marquis Bernard de Bade, like his sons-in-law, then with the duke of Bavaria. All together had under their orders an army of approximately 10 000 riders and 20 000 pedestrians.

Of dimensioned sound, the town of Metz made pact with a certain Guillaume, lord of Unpleasant Castle, which had been committed serving the Residents of Metz with 1200 combatants, and other captains who had put themselves at the pay of the city with their company. The parishes, the clergy even, had to provide horses; one armed the walls with the city, one built bombard and one prepared with defense.

In 1428, the duke of Lorraine, after having defied the city not only by itself, but by all his knights, threw himself on the Metz-native country, that it ravaga and ransacked without meeting resistance. Wanting to cut the transportation routes of the city, it makes close the ways of all shares, except side of Luxembourg. Indeed, the exit had remained free with the Residents of Metz, by order of the duchess dowager of the Brabant, Elisabeth de Görlitz, who was favorable for them. This one had financial troubles with the duke of Lorraine.

After moults skirmishes and bloody plunderings in the surrounding countryside, the Residents of Metz transfer the troops of the duke to arrive under the walls of their city, and to draw up against them the guns and bombard them. But the Residents of Metz had installed to them-even bombard on their ramparts, and those were particularly effective. They sowed the disorder among the enemy army, so that some young merchants of Metz, archers and principal rafters made an exit, and by their boldness, great damage with the troops of Charles II caused; but they were let surprise and more than 36, whose Jean Hulot, were made prisoners. The duke of Lorraine, disgusted per such an amount of resistance, preferred to set out again to devastate the campaigns.

The truce

The country was exhausted and Lorraine tired, which made it possible to lead to a truce, followed soon peace, which is published and proclaimed in Metz the first day of January 1429. The Duke desisted from his claim on hottée of apples, causes or rather pretext of so much difficulties, and the prisoners were exchanged on both sides, not without much difficulty however, because Charles II, dissatisfied with the failure of his company, brought in the execution of this part of the treaty much of unwillingness.

Its death, arrived in 1431, put an end to all the deadlines; the duchess of Bavaria, widow of fire duke, slackened all the prisoners and even returned visit to the town of Metz which accepted it in large pump and made him splendid present.

At the same time peace was signed between the Residents of Metz and the duke Rene Ier of Anjou, successor of Charles II of Lorraine and brother-in-law of the dolphin Charles, future king de France.

Category: History of Lorraine

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