268:
When appeals were instituted by the Crown, appeal of provost judgments, formerly impossible, now lay with the bailie. Moreover, in the 14th century, provosts no longer were in charge of collecting domainal revenues, except in farmed provostships, having instead yielded this responsibility to royal receivers (receveurs royaux). Raising local army contingents (ban and arrière-ban) also passed to bailies. Provosts therefore retained the sole function of inferior judges over vassals with original jurisdiction concurrent with bailies over claims against nobles and actions reserved for royal courts (cas royaux). This followed a precedent established in the chief feudal courts in the 13th and 14th centuries in which summary provostship suits were distinguished from solemn
202:
32:
267:
would be greatly extended as extensions of royal power, administration and justice. With the office of Great
Seneschal vacant after 1191, the bailies became stationary and established themselves as powerful officials superior to provosts. A bailie's district included about half a dozen provostships.
364:
de la Mare, Nicolas (1705). "Titre 5, Chapitre 2 Troubles arrivez en France sur la fin de la seconde
Branche de nos Rois. Abolition et oubli total de l'ancien Droit. Changemens que cela causa dans la Magistrature, et dans la Police. Origine des Prevosts, Vicomtes, Viguiers, Baillis et Seneschaux"
365:[Problems come to France at the end of the second Branch of our Kings. Abolition and total loss of the old law. Changes that this caused in the Magistracy, and in the Police. Origin of Provosts, Viscounts, Viguiers, Bailiffs and Seneschaux]. In Barnard, Philip; Shapiro, Stephen (eds.).
222:, an able and ingenious administrator who founded the central institutions on which the French monarchy's system of power would be based, prepared the expansion of the royal demesne through his appointment of bailiffs in the king's northern lands (the
180:
is first noted in the 12th century and comes the same word in Old French which means to govern or administer. One 17th
Century author credits the Old French word as meaning at the time "guardian" or "protector." This word derives from the
293:
wholly to the central administration that he represented. "He was therefore fanatically loyal to the king," Norman Cantor observes, "and was concerned only with the full exercise of royal power." The
285:
drawn from the great local families, the bailiff was a paid official sent out by the government, who had no power network in the area to which he had been assigned, and, in the way of a true
213:
Death, who has summoned me
Without right of appeal, casts down my joys. I see no more moves nor routes to take; Against Death there are no appeals.
19:
This article is about the medieval bailiffs who served the kings of France. For the modern French officers sometimes translated as 'bailiff', see
155:
in northern France, where the bailiff was responsible for the application of justice and control of the administration and local finances in his
115:
49:
201:
96:
53:
68:
219:
75:
418:
42:
82:
64:
224:
298:
20:
251:
239:
294:
235:
151:
89:
250:). The equivalent agent in the king's southern lands acquired after the inheritance of the
145:
133:
278:
243:
412:
290:
207:
338:
182:
366:
31:
286:
255:
190:
156:
310:
282:
315:
301:
provided the clerks and lawyers who served as the king's bailiff.
200:
371:(in French). Vol. 1. Paris: Jean et Pierre Cot. p. 30.
234:") which had been used by earlier sovereign princes such as the
25:
16:
French administrative representative during the ancien régime
341:[National Center of Textual and Lexical Resources].
149:) was the king's administrative representative during the
189:
meaning "official in charge of a castle" (i.e., a royal
339:"Centre National de Ressources Textuelles et Lexicales"
228:), based on medieval fiscal and tax divisions (the "
56:. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.
8:
385:1993:412f, discusses the institution of the
269:
262:
229:
161:
218:In the late 12th and early 13th century,
116:Learn how and when to remove this message
242:, the count appointed similar bailiffs (
333:
331:
327:
144:
7:
205:"The Bailiff" from Guyot Marchand's
54:adding citations to reliable sources
383:The Civilization of the Middle Ages
277:Unlike the local administration of
14:
30:
41:needs additional citations for
1:
261:Over time, the role of the
435:
18:
289:, owed his income and
270:
263:
247:
230:
215:
162:
137:
204:
142:French pronunciation:
65:"Bailiff" France
50:improve this article
368:Traité de la police
299:University of Paris
21:Huissier de justice
381:Norman F. Cantor,
252:County of Toulouse
216:
419:Kingdom of France
345:(in French). 2012
295:cathedral schools
126:
125:
118:
100:
426:
403:
396:
390:
379:
373:
372:
361:
355:
354:
352:
350:
335:
273:
266:
236:Duke of Normandy
233:
211:(14th century):
165:
148:
143:
121:
114:
110:
107:
101:
99:
58:
34:
26:
434:
433:
429:
428:
427:
425:
424:
423:
409:
408:
407:
406:
397:
393:
380:
376:
363:
362:
358:
348:
346:
337:
336:
329:
324:
307:
199:
175:
141:
122:
111:
105:
102:
59:
57:
47:
35:
24:
17:
12:
11:
5:
432:
430:
422:
421:
411:
410:
405:
404:
391:
374:
356:
326:
325:
323:
320:
319:
318:
313:
306:
303:
279:Norman England
220:King Philip II
198:
195:
174:
171:
146:[baji]
124:
123:
38:
36:
29:
15:
13:
10:
9:
6:
4:
3:
2:
431:
420:
417:
416:
414:
401:
398:Cantor 1993,
395:
392:
388:
384:
378:
375:
370:
369:
360:
357:
344:
340:
334:
332:
328:
321:
317:
314:
312:
309:
308:
304:
302:
300:
296:
292:
291:social status
288:
284:
280:
275:
272:
265:
259:
257:
253:
249:
245:
241:
237:
232:
227:
226:
225:domaine royal
221:
214:
210:
209:
208:Danse Macabre
203:
196:
194:
193:or "porter."
192:
188:
184:
179:
172:
170:
168:
166:
164:
158:
154:
153:
152:ancien régime
147:
139:
135:
131:
120:
117:
109:
98:
95:
91:
88:
84:
81:
77:
74:
70:
67: –
66:
62:
61:Find sources:
55:
51:
45:
44:
39:This article
37:
33:
28:
27:
22:
399:
394:
386:
382:
377:
367:
359:
347:. Retrieved
342:
276:
260:
223:
217:
212:
206:
186:
183:Vulgar Latin
177:
176:
169:
160:
150:
129:
127:
112:
103:
93:
86:
79:
72:
60:
48:Please help
43:verification
40:
322:References
287:bureaucrat
274:sessions.
76:newspapers
400:loc. cit.
264:baillages
256:seneschal
191:castellan
187:bajulivus
157:bailiwick
106:July 2010
413:Category
343:CNRTL.fr
305:See also
297:and the
283:sheriffs
281:through
271:bailiary
254:was the
240:Flanders
163:baillage
349:1 March
311:Bailiff
231:baillie
197:History
130:bailiff
90:scholar
387:bailli
316:Vidame
248:baljuw
178:Bailli
138:bailli
134:French
92:
85:
78:
71:
63:
244:Dutch
238:. In
185:term
97:JSTOR
83:books
351:2023
173:Name
69:news
167:).
52:by
415::
330:^
258:.
246::
140:,
136::
128:A
402:.
389:.
353:.
159:(
132:(
119:)
113:(
108:)
104:(
94:·
87:·
80:·
73:·
46:.
23:.
Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Additional terms may apply.
