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Brethren of the Sack

a fraternity of monks who lived in the 13th century.

BRETHREN OF THE STRICT OB- SERVANCE, the stricter Franciscans, or Regular Observatines.

BRETIGNY (bre-ten-yē), a village of France, in the department of Eure-et- Loire. By the treaty of Bretigny, May 8, 1360, between Edward III. of England and John II. of France, the latter, who had been taken prisoner at Poitiers, recovered his liberty on a ransom of 3,000,000 crowns, while Edward nounced his claim to the crown of France, and relinquished Anjou and Maine, and the greater part of Normandy, in return for Aquitaine, Gascony, Poitou, Saintonge, Périgord, cony, Limousin, etc. re-