Landrecht94, 99, 102, 104
Landgerichte 99
Lanfranc, archbishop of Canterbury 213,
216
Langres, bishop of 126
Langton, Stephen, archbishop of Canterbury
142
Langton, Walter, bishop of Coventry and
Lichfield 183, 184, 186
Languedoc 45, 149, 167
annexation of 115
assemblies of estates of 232
customs of 219
merchants of 288
Languedoil 149
assemblies of estates of 232
Lantrichter101–2
Laon 56
bishop of 56, 125
cathedral and canons of 111, 119
commune of 56
Lateran councils 75
Latimer, Lord 186, 256
law 11, 38, 139, 193–4, 331
bodies of territorial law 196
books 28, 191
canon 138, 146, 193, 196, 236, 297, 306,
321
civil, see Roman
codes 38, 253
eternal 8
fundamental 281, 295, 304, 306, 320,
329, 337–8
good old 253
of the gospel 297, 306
of the land 139
-making 191, 193, 196
Mosaic 297, 306
of nations 306
natural 8, 297, 300, 336
Old and New 7
reports 139, 235
of torts 242
see alsocommon; customary; criminal;
land; legislation; Roman
lawmen 24
laws:
and customs of the realm 268
of God and the Church 306
as life of the body politic 336
princes as lords of 160
as a ship 336
see also William I; Henry I
‘law-state’ 263
lawyers, attempt to exclude from parliament
185
lay fee 167
League of the Public Weal 283–4
leagues:
of nobles 107
of towns 107
leasehold 20, 235
legal:
procedures 234–5
profession 196, 233, 275–7
Leges Henrici Primi, seeHenry I
leges Iuliae 193
legislation v, 27, 38, 80–1, 92, 123, 136,
149–50, 164, 172, 186, 189–91, 221,
226, 252, 261, 271–2
canonical 197–8, 200
diocesan 137
economic and sumptuary 64, 226–31,
233, 256, 272, 309
see alsoacta; capitularies; constitutions;
établissements; law codes; ordonnances;
provisions; statutes
Lehnrecht99, 102, 206
Leiningen, Frederick count of 101
Le Mans 26, 73
bishop of 86, 125
commune at 72
Lennard, Samson 327
Leo IX, pope 85
Leon, kingdom of 60
Le Puy 47
bishop of 69
lettres d’état 236
Leudast, Merovingian count 25
Levellers 338–9
Lewes, battle of 173
Lewis ‘the German’, king 39
Lewis of Bavaria, emperor 105, 260
Lex Ribuaria 27, 32
Lex Saxonum 192
lex talionis 77
Lex Walensis 192, 199
Libelle of Englyshe Polycye 296
Liber Augustalis 96
Liber Iudicum 16
liberty, territorial 135
liberties 64, 100, 128, 140–2, 145, 148,
155, 182, 195, 212–13
of abbeys 13–14
ancient 110
boroughs’ liberties and free customs
217–18
of clergy 111, 125, 195, 240
communal 169
of gallican church 290
grants of 89, 197
of lords 61, 144, 166
obstructing common justice 220
royal 195, 214–15, 267–70380 Index