An itinerant court was a migratory form of government shared in European kingdoms during the Early Middle Ages. It was an alternative to having a capital...

up itinerant in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. An itinerant is a person who travels habitually. Itinerant may refer to: "Travellers" or itinerant groups...

or be a mobile, itinerant court. In the largest courts, the royal households, many thousands of individuals constituted the court. These courtiers included...

with their vassals on the ground. This was the so-called "itinerant kingship" or "itinerant court"; in German called Reisekönigtum ("travelling kingdom")...

Valladolid. His death occurred in this city because he was following the itinerant Court of Ferdinand the Catholic. The exact location of his death is unknown...

in a sénéchaussée. The bailie convened a bailie court (cour baillivale) which was an itinerant court of first instance. The administrative network of...

in the middle of the 8th century, and in France and Germany, in the itinerant court of Charlemagne in Aachen, in the last quarter of the 8th century. It...

circuit riding. Assizes — a type of judicial courts, to which circuit riding often applied Itinerant court — older, similar concept for royalty and governments...

a wet nurse called Ellen in the south of England, away from John's itinerant court, and probably had close ties to his mother. Henry had four legitimate...

differences between Agustín de Iturbide, a criollo, and the multiracial Mexican court Chest (petaca) from colonial Mexico, c. 1772. Now in the Metropolitan Museum...

Loire River, where he was still able to exert power, and maintained an itinerant court in the Loire Valley at castles such as Chinon. He was still customarily...

felony or indictment offences. The term "circuit court" is derived from the English custom of itinerant courts whose judges periodically travelled on pre-set...

Roman traditions. No permanent capital city existed in the empire, the itinerant court being a typical characteristic of all Western European kingdoms at...

networks centred on the Mediterranean. The empire was administered by an itinerant court that travelled with the emperor, as well as approximately 300 imperial...

his government to regent Álvaro de Luna, the most influential person in court and allied with the lesser nobility, the cities, the clergy, and the Jews...

ones. While the capital was at Winchester, the king traveled with his itinerant court from one royal vill to another as they collected food rent and heard...

Castilian Cortes, and on numerous occasions served as the seat of the itinerant court. The Late Middle Ages found the city, its port, and its colony of active...

There was a notable revival of classical style in works of 10th century court art like the Paris Psalter, and throughout the period manuscript illumination...

An itinerant poet or strolling minstrel (also known variously as a gleeman, circler, or cantabank) was a wandering minstrel, bard, musician, or other...

Sultan Abd al-Rahman al-Rashid of the Sultanate of Darfur moved his itinerant court (fashir) to a site called Rahad Tendelti while campaigning in the region...

group of circuit courts. Some districts (generally the ones most difficult for an itinerant justice to reach) did not have a circuit court; in these districts...

who detested any reliance on France. Philip the Good established an itinerant court of justice that travelled all across the country (which was still not...

than being based in a fixed location, Welsh kings would maintain an itinerant court, as was the norm in medieval Europe. In the past, multiple places have...

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The French court in the Middle Ages was itinerant, as encapsulated by historian Boris Bove’s statement: “where the king is, there the court is”. Apart...

Royal Progress, or tour of major cities in a realm. The concept of itinerant court is related to this. From the Late Middle Ages, entries became the occasion...

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Bermudo I, the Deacon) and at last Alfonso II, the Chaste, who set up his court at Oviedo, recommenced the great expeditions against the Muslims, and seems...

major cities, England had no fixed capital. The king's household and court were itinerant, with kings constantly traversing southern England (where most royal...

their temporary residences (Kaiserpfalz) as transit stations for their itinerant courts. From the late Middle Ages onward, the weakly fortified pfalzen were...