History of the Origin of Representative Government in Europe, Volume 20H.G. Bohn, 1861 - 538 pages |
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... king's thanes and the inferior thanes ; but when we seek to discover what constituted the real difference of their ... king . After the conquest of a country , those chiefs who were nearest the king found themselves in a most favourable ...
... king's thanes and the inferior thanes ; but when we seek to discover what constituted the real difference of their ... king . After the conquest of a country , those chiefs who were nearest the king found themselves in a most favourable ...
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... king's thanes , they say , were vassals of the king ; the inferior thanes were vassals of the king's vassals . We may certainly discover , in the connec- tion of these two classes of men , some of the characteristics of feudalism . But ...
... king's thanes , they say , were vassals of the king ; the inferior thanes were vassals of the king's vassals . We may certainly discover , in the connec- tion of these two classes of men , some of the characteristics of feudalism . But ...
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... king in fact and a king by right , which is the true king ? " The pope replied , that he who actually exercised the royal authority ought also to possess the royal title . In 752 , Pepin convoked the national assembly at Soissons ; he ...
... king in fact and a king by right , which is the true king ? " The pope replied , that he who actually exercised the royal authority ought also to possess the royal title . In 752 , Pepin convoked the national assembly at Soissons ; he ...
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... king , or who was king . The descend- ants of Charlemagne retained for some considerable time a party of adherents , for the idea and feeling of the right- fulness of a hereditary succession to the crown , that is , of legitimacy , were ...
... king , or who was king . The descend- ants of Charlemagne retained for some considerable time a party of adherents , for the idea and feeling of the right- fulness of a hereditary succession to the crown , that is , of legitimacy , were ...
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... king ; the new king would add to his own personal possessions the property of the dethroned king . Thus the large domains possessed by the family of the Pepins , in Belgium , and on the Rhine , became royal domains . Legal confiscations ...
... king ; the new king would add to his own personal possessions the property of the dethroned king . Thus the large domains possessed by the family of the Pepins , in Belgium , and on the Rhine , became royal domains . Legal confiscations ...
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Page 366 - I. Edward, by the grace of God, King of England, Lord of Ireland, and Duke of Guyan, to all those that these present letters shall hear or see, greeting. Know ye that we to the honour of God and of holy Church, and to the profit of our realm, have granted for us and our heirs, that the Charter of Liberties and the Charter of the Forest, which were made by common assent of all the realm, in the time of King Henry our father, shall be kept in every point without breach.