The Aristocracy in the County of Champagne, 1100-1300Theodore Evergates provides the first systematic analysis of the aristocracy in the county of Champagne under the independent counts. He argues that three factorsthe rise of the comital state, fiefholding, and the conjugal familywere critical to shaping a loose assortment of baronial and knightly families into an aristocracy with shared customs, institutions, and identity. Evergates mines the rich, varied, and in some respects unique collection of