Raymonde Vital

Who is Raymonde Vital?

Raymonde Vital was a woman who lived in the Comté de Foix in the early fourteenth century, she was made notable by appearing in Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie's Montaillou. Working as a servant in the home the Belots, one of the wealthier families of Montaillou, she met Arnaud Vital, a cobbler who was boarding there. She married him and the two set up house together, but the marriage was unhappy as Arnaud ignored her in favour of a series of mistresses. Upon the death of Arnaud Raymonde married Bernard Guilhou. For a time she also became the mistress to Pierre Clergue.