Jean Pellissier (shepherd)

Jean Pellissier was a 14th-century shepherd in the Comté de Foix, made notable by appearing in Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie's Montaillou.

At the age of twelve, as was the custom, he began tending his family's flock of sheep.

He worked there for five or six years before returning home and living with his widowed mother and his four brothers, Raymond, Guillaume, Bernard, and Pierre.

He then moved in with Bernard and Guillemette Maurs and worked tending their flock, the couple's children being too young for the job.

Eventually Pellissier left to resume travelling through the region for several years before accumulating enough money to settle in Montaillou with his own flock.