Global InformationJean Boinebroke of Douai information
Jehan Boinebroke (died 1286 in Douai) was a French merchant from Douai.
He is described in The Cambridge History of Western Textiles as 'undoubtedly the most famous merchant-draper "capitalist" to be found in medieval western Europe' and is sometimes depicted as a medieval robber baron.[1]
- ^ John H. Munro, 'Medieval Woollens: Textiles, Textile Technology and Industrial Organisation, c. 800-1500', in The Cambridge History of Western Textiles, Volume 1, ed. by D. T. Jenkins (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), pp. 181-227 (219).