Week IX Words etc.

WEEK IX WORDS etc

'GRAVIA ET DUBITABILIA' ('weighty but debatable matters' in Magna Carta)
GUALO            WILLIAM MARSHAL (d. 1219)     TREATY OF KINGSTON, 1217
4th LATERAN COUNCIL, 1215
STEPHEN LANGTON, ABP OF CANTERBURY   ROBERT GROSSETESTE, BP OF LINCOLN (d. 1253)
SIMON DE MONTFORT, EARL OF LEICESTER (d. 1265)
FRIARS      DOMINICANS      FRANCISCANS
'BRACTON', Name given to legal treatise 'DE LEGIBUS'. Now known that HENRY DE BRACTON, J. was NOT the author, and that it was originally written in the 1220s
'QUOD PRINCIPI PLACET HABET VIGOREM LEGIS' (= 'What pleases the king has the vigor of Law'), Roman Law maxim.
ACCURSIUS, author of the Ordinary Gloss on the CORPUS IURIS CIVILIS, 1229-34.
POITEVINS (from Poitou) and SAVOYARDS (Savoy)      PETER DES RIVAUX     LUSIGNAN Family (Aquitaine)
MATTHEW PARIS, monk, chronicler from St. Albans      'NATURALES' (= native born)
COMMUNITY OF THE REALM   'MAGNA NEGOTIA REGIS ET REGNI' (The great business of the king and real)
PARLIAMENT    PLENA POTESTAS (full powers, authority) 'SELF-GOVERNMENT AT THE KING'S COMMAND'
ELEANOR OF PROVENCE, Henry III's Queen from 1236
[ST.] LOUIS IX, KING OF FRANCE, 1228-70         ENQUETES (Name give to admin inquiries in 1240s, 1250s )
'MAD PARLIAMENT' 1258, with PROVISIONS OF OXFORD
PROVISIONS OF WESTMINSTER 1259          MISE OF AMIENS, 1264      STATUTE OF MARLBOROUGH, 1267
MURDRUM FINE, abold. 1259            ACTION OF TRESPASS               CHIEF JUSTICIAR
BATTLE OF LEWES, 1264            BATTLE OF EVESHAM, 1265            DICTUM OF KENILWORTH, 1266

THE NOBILITY REFUSES THE KING AN AID, 1242

Just before the Purification of the Blessed Virgin, the nobility of all England, prelates, earls and barons, assembled in London by royal command...They refused the king to his face, because they were unwilling any longer to be despoiled of their money to no purpose. So the king, familiar with the sly frauds of the Romans, called each man individually into his private chamber one after the other the way a priest calls in penitents to confession. And so, those whom he could not weaken as a group, he tried to trick one by one. In quest of a money aid, he said: "This is what that abbot there granted me in aid; this is what such and such other man gave."...But many stood firm as they had sworn to each other, and would not withdraw from their collective response.

Matthew Paris, iv. 181-2 (Stubbs, Select Charters, iv. 181-2). Matthew's use of the verb 'coniuraverunt' (often meaning 'conspired') in the final sentence of the extract, suggests disapproval.