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2 giorni fa · Between 1159 and 1163, Henry spent time in Normandy conducting reforms of royal and church courts, and some measures later introduced in England are recorded as existing in Normandy as early as 1159. [233] In 1163 Henry returned to England, intent on reforming the role of the royal courts. [234]
1 giorno fa · Henry I and Henry II both implemented significant legal reforms, extending and widening the scope of centralised, royal law; by the 1180s, the basis for the future English common law had largely been established, with a standing law court in Westminster—an early Common Bench—and travelling judges conducting eyres around the country.
1 giorno fa · Under the law as it stood, thanks to the definitions of Henry II’s judges, the terms on which the unfree held land were the exclusive concern of their lords, who could vary those terms at will, however much in practice they were sometimes constrained by manorial custom.
1 giorno fa · The first chapter sets out Coss' argument that the gentry emerged around 1300. The second chapter, 'The Roots of the Gentry', discredits alternative hypotheses that the gentry originated earlier, before the Norman Conquest or alongside the legal reforms of Henry II.
4 giorni fa · Writ of H II, informing William de Turba, bp. of Norwich, and the barons of Suffolk, that he confirms to the monks of St Bartholomew's, Sudbury, two parts of the tithe of Torp, which Ivo gave from his demesne when he became a monk there, to hold as King Henry confirmed by his charter.
3 giorni fa · King John’s successor, Henry III, reissued the Magna Carta on November 12, 1216, in the hope of recalling the allegiance of rebellious barons who were supporting French King Louis VIII’s efforts to win control of England.
3 giorni fa · An examination of the theory and practice of appointments in the reigns of Henry III and Edward I (1216–1307), and of their historical significance. Phyllis H. Scotney. London M.A. 1927.
