Saint-Marcellin

The council left for Grenoble in 1340, where it would become the Parlement of Dauphiné, but Saint-Marcellin kept the favour of the last Dauphin, Humbert II. In 1343 he granted its townspeople a charter of liberties, franchises and privileges, and allowed them to wall what was by then one of the important towns of the region. Humbert had no children, and six years later he sold the Dauphiné to the House of Valois. Saint-Marcellin passed with it to the young prince Charles, the first heir of the French crown to bear the title of Dauphin.