Guillaume de Joinville [SEP] position held
William of Joinville
William of Joinville (French "Guillaume de Joinville"; died 1226) was a French ecclesiastic. A younger son of Geoffrey IV of Joinville and Helvide of Dampierre, he joined the chapter of Châlons Cathedral, become archdeacon by 1191. He then became bishop of Langres and thus a "pair de France" in 1208 and finally archbishop of Reims in 1219. He was the candidate of King Philip Augustus to become bishop of Metz in 1212, but lost out to Conrad III of Scharfenberg.
nobility like Guillaume de Lorris, Geoffrey of Villehardouin (sometimes referred to as Villehardouin, and Jean de Joinville (sometimes referred to as Joinville)). Similarly, due to the outpouring of French vernacular literature from the 12th century on ("chanson de geste", chivalric romance, troubadour and trouvère poetry, etc.), French became the "international language of the aristocracy".
Society and government.
Society and government Peasants.
In the Middle Ages in France, the vast majority of the population—between