How much was the ransom of the King of France in 1360?
The record: £500,000, 1360.
About $1.5 billion in today's gold
240,000 years of a farm labourer's pay.
Three million écus for John II, captured at Poitiers, agreed at Brétigny; about four years of the English crown's whole income. Source
Who could buy it
No month of pay on either ladder was enough, not even the highest. It took 240,000 years of a farm labourer's pay.
In other words, beyond every pay on both ladders.