Pieter de Coninck

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Pieter de Coninck and Jan Breydel , Bruges .

Alongside Jan Breydel, Pieter de Coninck († 1332/1333) is considered to be the leader of the Bruges morning mass , the bloody uprising against the French King Philip the Fair .

Life

In 1301, de Coninck, a Weber by birth, was imprisoned by the city government of Bruges as a dangerous agitator, but later liberated from the population. When the pro- France party of the Leliaarts took over the government a little later and Jacques de Châtillon was installed as French governor, Pieter de Coninck was banished. In December 1301 he returned to Bruges with the support of Count John I of Namur . His attempts to convince the people of Ghent to form an alliance failed.

On May 1, 1302, he was one of the leaders in an attack on the castles of Sijsele and Male , in which the entire French garrison of Males was killed. Jacques de Châtillon then banished de Coninck again from the city. De Coninck, and Breydel, a butcher, then led the revolt in the early hours of May 18, 1302, in which they penetrated the houses where the French garrison was quartered and killed most of the soldiers.

De Coninck was now one of those responsible in the fight against the French and the Leliaarts. Shortly before the Spore Battle on July 11, 1302, Pieter de Coninck and two of his sons were made knights.

In 1309 Breydel and de Coninck led again, and Jan Heem led another uprising in Bruges, this time directed against the effects of the Treaty of Athis-sur-Orge . In 1321 he took part again in an uprising in Bruges, in the course of which, however, he was punished and expropriated.

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