based on customary fixed rates, based on the feudal system, so as the price of goods and services rose from inflation, the income of those nobles remained stagnant, effectively dropping. To make matters worse, the nobles had become accustomed to a more luxurious lifestyle that required more money. To address this, nobles illegally raised rents, cheated, stole, and sometimes resorted to outright violence to maintain this lifestyle. Kings who needed money to finance wars resorted to devaluing currency by cutting silver and gold coins with less precious metal, which resulted in increased inflation and, in the end, increased tax rates. The 14th century crisis of famine, plague, and war put additional pressures on those at the bottom. The plague drastically reduced the numbers of people who were workers and producing the wealth. Finally, layered on top of this was a popular ideological view of the time that property, wealth and inequality were against the teachings of God, as expressed through the teachings of the Franciscans. The sentiment of the time was probably best expressed by preacher John Ball during the English Peasant Revolt when he said, "When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman?", criticizing economic inequality as human-made rather than a creation of God. Notable rural revolts The 1323–1328 Flemish revolt. Beginning as a series of scattered rural riots in late 1323, peasant insurrection escalated into a full-scale rebellion that dominated public affairs in Flanders for nearly five years. The Saint George's Night Uprising of 1343–1345 in Estonia. The Jacquerie was a peasant revolt that took place in northern France in 1356–1358, during the Hundred Years' War. Tuchin revolt 1378–1384 The English Peasants' Revolt or Great Rising of 1381 is a major event in the history of England. It is the best documented among the revolts of this period. 1401–1409 Samogitian uprisings 1419–1434 Hussite Wars The Irmandiño revolts in Galicia in 1431 and 1467. The Engelbrekt rebellion of 1434–1436 in Sweden. 1437–1438 Transylvanian peasant revolt The Budai Nagy Antal Revolt broke out in Transylvania in 1437. The military tactics of the rebels were inspired by the Hussite Wars (for example, the use of battle wagons). The Jack Cade's Rebellion of 1450 led by Jack Cade. Morea revolt of 1453–1454 The War of the Remences in Old Catalonia in 1462–1486. 1478 Carinthian Peasant Revolt The Cornish Rebellion of 1497. 1500 Battle of Hemmingstedt in Dithmarschen Notable urban