In the Middle Ages, the ban (Latin bannus or bannum, German Bann) or banality (French banalité) was originally the power to command men in war and evolved...

emperor's influence and control. Legally, the Carolingian emperor exercised the bannum, the right to rule and command, over all of his territories. Also, he had...

Königsbann, literally king's ban (Latin: bannus, more rarely bannum, from the OHG: ban), was the exercise of royal jurisdiction in the Holy Roman Empire...

"to announce". From there it passed into medieval Latin, under the form bannum, which means – among the Frankish peoples, for example – "proclamation"...

and its functions directly derive from a Germanic medieval term ban or bannum, the royal power of raising of armies and the exercise of justice later...

subjects directly, and also possessed the feudal rights to the corvée and the bannum. The knights' reputation for heavy taxes (the maligned Rittersteuer) and...

have" ecclesiastical matters and the bannum "as other Franks" have them. A total of eight chapters deal with the bannum, the right to command, both that of...

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Tardenois was under a count named Bertram, a relative of his, who exercised the bannum and held placita. The Tardenois was at that time a typical Carolingian county...

One theory holds that its name Magnanapoli derives from the expression Bannum Nea Polis or "fort of the new city" from the adjacent Byzantine military...

 208. Lewis 1965, p. 173. Lewis 1965, p. 199. Lewis 1965, p. 239. By 1010, bannum et placitos, parados et albergos et servicios and hostem et cavalcadem were...

varies from 200 feet (61 m) to 400 feet (120 m), the highest point being at Bannum's Wood. There is no main village and there has been considerable depopulation...