Jean de Montreuil explained

Jean de Montreuil (1354, Monthureux-le-Sec – 29 May 1418, Paris) was a French scholar of the late 14th and early 15th century and a friend of Laurent de Premierfait.

Life

He was among the first to invoke Salic Law as a reasoning against female succession to the throne.[1] He used its implications to argue against the claims of Henry IV of England, who was also patron of Christine de Pizan, the scholar with whom Montreuil often debated over the proper conduct and role of women in the monarchy and society in general.

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Notes and References

  1. Hanley, Sarah. “The Family, the State, and the Law in Seventeenth‐ and Eighteenth‐Century France: The Political Ideology of Male Right versus an Early Theory of Natural Rights.” The Journal of Modern History 78, no. 2 (2006): 289–332. https://doi.org/10.1086/505799.