• In the Kingdom of England, the Magnum Concilium (Latin for "Great Council") was an assembly historically convened at certain times of the year when the...
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  • ancient Roman Republic Magnum Concilium (Great Council), an assembly established in the reign of the Normans Sacrosanctum Concilium (Constitution on the...
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    'royal court') and periodically enlarged the court by summoning a magnum concilium (Latin for 'great council') to discuss national business and promulgate...
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  • His (or Her) Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council (Latin: concilium familiare, concilium privatum et assiduum), was a body of advisers to the sovereign...
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    king, and the privilege of attendance at the king's feudal court, the Magnum Concilium, the precursor of parliament. If the estate-in-land held by barony...
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  • steward. Occasionally, these would be summoned by the king to meet as a magnum concilium (Latin for "great council"). In between great councils, the curia regis...
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    of the United Kingdom. The Parliament of England developed from the Magnum Concilium that advised the English monarch in medieval times. This royal council...
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    three are the courts of law, the Commune Concilium (Common Council, i.e. Parliament) and the Magnum Concilium (Great Council, i.e. the assembly of all...
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    decisions or favours. From time to time, Henry's royal court became a magnum concilium, a great council, which was sometimes used to take major decisions...
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    and promulgate legislation. The enlarged curia regis was called a magnum concilium (Latin for "great council"). The small curia regis was a permanent...
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    indemnities to the Scots, Charles was advised by a hastily summoned Magnum Concilium that he had no choice but to return to Parliament, which reassembled...
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    Assembly – or Anshei Knesset HaGedolah ('Men of the Great Assembly') Magnum Concilium, a similar body in medieval England Synedrion, a general term for judiciary...
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    achieving this. Against this backdrop, and according to advice from the Magnum Concilium (the House of Lords, but without the Commons, so not a Parliament)...
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    micel gemot ('great assembly'). Writers of Latin texts used conventus or magnum sapientium conventus (lit. 'great assembly of wise men'). Modern scholars...
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    represent Scotland. The House of Lords developed from the "Great Council" (Magnum Concilium) that advised the king during medieval times, dating back to the early...
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    Longchamp's dismissal in 1191, government moved to a more conciliar mode (magnum concilium and communitas regni) under Coutance. Richard and Berengaria had no...
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