Also known as: Paciferi; pacifici; iurati.
Derogatory contemporary names:
secta Caputiorum; insana rabies Capuciatorum;
Modern usage: Capucies; Capuchonnes;
Chaperons blancs;
the White Hoods
Duration: c. 30 November 1182 - c. 1184
Geography: Le Puy; the Velay; Auvergne;
may have spread more widely (Poitou, Berry, Burgundy, etc.)
Leadership: Durand of Le Puy, carpenter & visionary; support of Bishop
Pierre de Solignac of Le Puy (d.1189)
Institutionalization: Militant peace confraternity.
Confreres sworn to obey a regula.
Habit: white hoods; medallion of Virgin & Child
Outcome: A period of success (less than a year?).
Victory over army of routiers.
Then, repression.
Opposed by Church & seigneurs & routiers.
Allegations of radical egalitarianism; 'heresy'.
Caputiati suppressed by military force.
QUERY: Has anything appeared on the subject more recently than...
Jean Perrel, 'Une revolution populaire au moyen age: le mouvement des
Capuchonnes du Puy, 1182-84' in Cahiers de la Haute-Loire, Annee 1977,
pp.61-79 and Le Chanoine A. Fayard, 'De Ruessium a Saint-Paulien', also in
Cahiers de la Haute-Loire, Annee 1976, pp.43-127.
Gary Dickson
University of Edinburgh
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