chiltillon

Updated: June 19, 2025

James de Chiltillon, the governor assigned by Philip the Handsome to Flanders, was a greedy oppressor of it; the municipal authorities whom the victories or the gold of Philip had demoralized became the objects of popular hatred; and there was an outburst of violent sedition.

M. (François) Guizot - A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 2