Medieval Law and the Foundations of the State

Berkeley, Sir Robert 334 Berne 106 Berry 149, 283 Bersuire, Pierre 278 Berwick 221 Béthisy 112 Béziers, Raymond Trenceval, vicom ...

Carinthia 100 Carlisle, parliament at 237 Carniola 100 Carolingian empire and polity 17, 33, 36–7, 41, 43, 60, 69, 76, 78, 85 ca ...

council of 74 Cleve, count of 204 Cleveland 217 cloth industry 230 Cluny abbey 40 court of the prior of 76 Odilo, abbot of 73 Cn ...

courts (cont.): ducal 35 earliest 10–12 ecclesiastical 22, 24, 92, 120, 126–8, 133–4, 137–8, 144, 169–70, 210, 238, 333 ‘of Fran ...

distraint 52, 134, 154, 159, 173 districtus47, 49, 52 divorce 13 doléances,cahiers de284–5, 289 Domesday inquest 131, 208, 211, ...

Etsi de statu, papal bull 239 Eugenius III, pope 87, 88, 91 Evesham: abbot of 131, 209 battle of 160, 174, 176 Évreux 122, 124 b ...

political, national 215 see alsoliberties; personal status freehold, free tenement 36, 211, 214, 218 freemen 58 friars, as inqui ...

Henry the Lion, duke of Bavaria and Saxony 202, 206 heresy, see Cathars Hesse 103 Hincmar, archbishop of Rheims 21, 41–2 Hobbes, ...

147, 153, 207, 214, 219, 315 John, king of France 227, 240, 255, 271, 278, 284 John the Fearless, duke of Burgundy 281–2 John of ...

Landrecht94, 99, 102, 104 Landgerichte 99 Lanfranc, archbishop of Canterbury 213, 216 Langres, bishop of 126 Langton, Stephen, a ...

territorial 135, 211–21 of towns 56, 112 see also immunities; freedom Libri Feudorum84, 203 Lichfield, justiciar at 154 Liège, H ...

Matthew Paris 171–2 Maximilian I, emperor 107–8 mayors: of the Merovingian palace 20 of towns 57–8, 60, 64, 112, 116, 118, 124, ...

dukes of 46, 65, 77–8, 128, 203–4, 207, 277 exchequer of 167 parlement of 289 monasteries of 156 Norsemen: in England 23, 27 in ...

Paris (cont.): as capital 115 council of 38 parlement of 163, 167–8, 175, 289, 292, 319 prévôts of , and their court 164, 166, 2 ...

placitum Dei 69 plaintes et doléances 271 plaints, see complaints Plato 327 pleading-contest 20 plea rolls 139, 198, 242, 253 pl ...

Prussia 274 Ptolemy of Lucca 4, 257–61, 273 public: archives 110 assemblies 288 authority 131 body of England 303 courts 19, 96, ...

right (droit,ius)32 common 159 petition of 333 and state of crown, king or realm 145, 182 see also writs rights 109, 132 of chur ...

Sées, church of Saint-Martin de, 119, 122 seigneuries44, 52, 54, 168 see also courts, seignorial seisin 129–30 Selden, John 336 ...

of the king or crown; monarchical, princely 3, 7, 41, 115, 140–5, 152, 158, 160, 174, 178, 252–300, 310–11, 320–2, 332 of the ki ...

Toulouse (cont.): prévôt of 169 Touraine 118, 121, 123, 149, 157, 220 bailliage of 285 Tournai 56, 58, 115 Tours 23, 47, 48, 51, ...