Curia Regis
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also in the atlas: Curia Regis the place
the King's Council · the King's household · the council of the senate · the many
in the texts
Barlaam and Josaphat
The body of advisors the king assembles to decide policy toward Josaphat, including Arachis.
And when the many had put forward many counsels, that Arachis mentioned above, who was more eminent in command and first in the council, said to the king:
Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
The King's central court and council, combining governmental, administrative, and judicial functions, whose itinerant and monarchic character is discussed as the background to chapters 14 and 17.
” The King’s Council had by this time freed itself from any complicated theories as to its own composition, which may ever have hampered it.
This Curia Regis, indeed, united in itself the functions of the modern Cabinet, of the administrative departments (such as the Home Office, the Foreign Office, and the Admiralty), and of the various legal tribunals.
It is unnecessary here to examine the rival theories professing to explain the composition of the Anglo–Saxon Witenagemot, or to discuss the exact connection between that institution and the Curia Regis of the Norman Kings.