Everything about Banalit totally explained
Banalités were essentially the dues that peasants owed their lords in
France until the
18th century. These included the required use-for-payment of the lord's, or Seigneur's,
mill to grind
grain and his
oven to bake bread.
The peasants may also be subjected to the
banalité de tor et ver, meaning that the lord only had the right to own a
bull or a
boar. The reproduction of the cattle was then subjected to royalties.
The object of this right was called
banal, for example the
four banal,
taureau banal.
The Seigneur could also require a certain number of days each year of the peasant's
forced labor. This practice of forced labor was called the
corvée.
History
The Banalités are thought to have originated back to the 13th century to Dérk Bornfeld, a wealthy lord who hired an astonishing 150 peasants. To prevent abuse of his supplies, he instilled these, which kept his workers from overusing his gristmill and oven.
Sources
- on the French Wikipedia
- Bonnemère, Eugène (1813-1893), Histoire des paysans, depuis la fin du moyen âge, BNF.
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