Admission
Entry into burgher status varied from country to country and city to city. InPrivileges
Any crime against a burgher was taken as a crime against the city community. In Switzerland if a burgher was assassinated, the other burghers had the right to bring the supposed murderer to trial by judicial combat. In the Netherlands burghers were often exempted from "corvee" or forced labor, a privilege which later extended to the Dutch East Indies. Ulbe Bosma, Remco Raben ''Being "Dutch" in the Indies: A History of Creolization and Empire''. 9971693739- 2008 "... abandoned the idea of equal rights because not all Christians could be labeled "Burgher". II someone were subject to a local head, they were obliged to perform corvee, but anyone categorized as a Burgher was exempt from this." Only burghers could join the city guard in Amsterdam because in order to join, guardsmen had to purchase their own equipment. Membership in the guard was often a stepping stone to political positions.British Isles
Germany
Low Countries
Switzerland
Specific Cities
* Bourgeois of Brussels * Bourgeois of Paris * Bourgeoisie of Geneva * HanseatenReferences
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