Medieval Law and the Foundations of the State

Germany, Wibald of Corvey, informed of his healthy state (de statu incolumitatis nostre), and Conrad’s son Henry promised to pas ...

abuse were exchanged (c. 4). The offender’s property should be the pledge for payment of a twenty-pound fine (c. 5). A clerk who ...

as necessary on the herbage and young trees by the side of the road, but without laying them waste (c. 20). In November 1158, at ...

charters to pray for, was manifested not in his general dispensation of justice but in constant political interventions to confe ...

crimes was a substitute for royal control of local justice—this had to be left to the regional associations of aristocrats which ...

Frederick II did not return to Germany for fifteen years, but from time to time he called his son Henry, whom he had left behind ...

constitution of 1235 is similarly described as drawn up by Frederick II ‘always august emperor of the Romans, king of Jerusalem ...

notary’ was to be appointed to record the names of outlaws and liti- gants, the substance of their cases, and the security given ...

The territorial states of Germany The constitution of 1235 gave the special notary responsibility for receiving bills of complai ...

mediation of this justiciar ‘a firm peace and stable truces amongst the prevalent wars and discords’.^105 Richard of Cornwall, b ...

Ottokar had destroyed could be rebuilt without the need of Rudolf’s specific licence. Finally the local magistrates (terrarum iu ...

of its own landgrave. In 1286 no lesser man than the archbishop of Mainz was made ‘captain and rector’ in Meissen and Thuringia ...

count-palatine, the duke of Brunswick, the margrave of Brandenburg, and a number of lesser nobles then joined what was essential ...

were appointed in pairs to inquire with two citizens of each town about notorious robbers, arsonists, and evildoers of all sorts ...

on Germany’s southern margins in the alpine valleys of Swabia, where there was a different balance between an independent peasan ...

towns to the original confederation—Lucerne in 1332, Zurich in 1351, Zug in 1352, and Berne in 1353—and the purchase by thousand ...

cities are known to form concerning the general peace of provinces and territories’.^122 The reigns of Charles and his son Wence ...

Pacisof 1235 with its talk of reforming ‘the general state of the empire’. Staat, the vernacular term for the commonwealth which ...

chapter five The Judicial Systems of France and England The systemsfor the administration of justice which developed in France a ...

complaints (querelae) of churches against the turbulent barons of the royal demesne—and then to correct injuries committed far b ...