William Chester Jordan
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691164953
- eISBN:
- 9781400866397
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691164953.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, World Medieval History
This chapter focuses on those English exiles who, in one way or another, returned to their homeland during the long thirteenth century. Men and women convicted of felonies in the regular courts in ...
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This chapter focuses on those English exiles who, in one way or another, returned to their homeland during the long thirteenth century. Men and women convicted of felonies in the regular courts in England and condemned to die could apply for and sometimes obtain royal pardons, because of circumstances or at a price or both, following conviction. Even those who flouted justice by fleeing and were outlawed had access to pardons for their outlawry on condition that they deliver themselves and stand trial on the original charge or charges. As with a pardoned outlaw, that a pardoned abjurer from sanctuary could be compelled to stand trial for his acknowledged crime, particularly if a kinsman of the victim, one with proper standing made a direct accusation or appealed him. The pardon did not nullify the abjurer's victim's right of appeal.Less
This chapter focuses on those English exiles who, in one way or another, returned to their homeland during the long thirteenth century. Men and women convicted of felonies in the regular courts in England and condemned to die could apply for and sometimes obtain royal pardons, because of circumstances or at a price or both, following conviction. Even those who flouted justice by fleeing and were outlawed had access to pardons for their outlawry on condition that they deliver themselves and stand trial on the original charge or charges. As with a pardoned outlaw, that a pardoned abjurer from sanctuary could be compelled to stand trial for his acknowledged crime, particularly if a kinsman of the victim, one with proper standing made a direct accusation or appealed him. The pardon did not nullify the abjurer's victim's right of appeal.
William Chester Jordan
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691164953
- eISBN:
- 9781400866397
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691164953.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, World Medieval History
At the height of the Middle Ages, a peculiar system of perpetual exile— or abjuration—flourished in western Europe. It was a judicial form of exile, not political or religious, and it was meted out ...
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At the height of the Middle Ages, a peculiar system of perpetual exile— or abjuration—flourished in western Europe. It was a judicial form of exile, not political or religious, and it was meted out to felons for crimes deserving of severe corporal punishment or death. This book explores the lives of these men and women who were condemned to abjure the English realm, and draws on their unique experiences to shed light on a medieval legal tradition until now very poorly understood. The book weaves an historical tapestry, examining the judicial and administrative processes that led to the abjuration of more than seventy-five thousand English subjects, and recounting the astonishing journeys of the exiles themselves. Some were innocents caught up in tragic circumstances, but many were hardened criminals. Almost every English exile departed from the port of Dover, many bound for the same French village, a place called Wissant. The book vividly describes what happened when the felons got there, and tells the stories of the few who managed to return to England, either illegally or through pardons. The book provides new insights into a fundamental pillar of medieval English law and shows how it collapsed amid the bloodshed of the Hundred Years' War.Less
At the height of the Middle Ages, a peculiar system of perpetual exile— or abjuration—flourished in western Europe. It was a judicial form of exile, not political or religious, and it was meted out to felons for crimes deserving of severe corporal punishment or death. This book explores the lives of these men and women who were condemned to abjure the English realm, and draws on their unique experiences to shed light on a medieval legal tradition until now very poorly understood. The book weaves an historical tapestry, examining the judicial and administrative processes that led to the abjuration of more than seventy-five thousand English subjects, and recounting the astonishing journeys of the exiles themselves. Some were innocents caught up in tragic circumstances, but many were hardened criminals. Almost every English exile departed from the port of Dover, many bound for the same French village, a place called Wissant. The book vividly describes what happened when the felons got there, and tells the stories of the few who managed to return to England, either illegally or through pardons. The book provides new insights into a fundamental pillar of medieval English law and shows how it collapsed amid the bloodshed of the Hundred Years' War.
Jane Dawson
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780300114737
- eISBN:
- 9780300214185
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300114737.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Early Modern History
This chapter revisits the story of the dispute at Frankfurt via insights revealed through the Goodman papers. This dispute, which had affected the Church of England, re-emerged in Queen Elizabeth's ...
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This chapter revisits the story of the dispute at Frankfurt via insights revealed through the Goodman papers. This dispute, which had affected the Church of England, re-emerged in Queen Elizabeth's reign and it had helped to determine the nature both of the Protestant Kirk that was to appear in Scotland and down the centuries of the Reformed tradition, throughout the Anglophone world. Perhaps it came as no surprise that, when he was minister to the English-speaking exile congregation at Frankfurt, Knox experienced some of the toughest and most bruising encounters of his life. Frankfurt changed him, and his battles there altered the entire English exile community and sent him into a third exile.Less
This chapter revisits the story of the dispute at Frankfurt via insights revealed through the Goodman papers. This dispute, which had affected the Church of England, re-emerged in Queen Elizabeth's reign and it had helped to determine the nature both of the Protestant Kirk that was to appear in Scotland and down the centuries of the Reformed tradition, throughout the Anglophone world. Perhaps it came as no surprise that, when he was minister to the English-speaking exile congregation at Frankfurt, Knox experienced some of the toughest and most bruising encounters of his life. Frankfurt changed him, and his battles there altered the entire English exile community and sent him into a third exile.
