The English Barons
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Dissertations on Early Law and Custom (English)
and Matilda, herself a woman, and but faintly objected to by the English barons on that account, transmitted an unquestioned title to her son Henry II.
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Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
The English nobility whose mild objection to Matilda's claim illustrates feudal tolerance of female succession.
and Matilda, herself a woman, and but faintly objected to by the English barons on that account, transmitted an unquestioned title to her son Henry II.
Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
The collective body of English feudal tenants-in-chief whose grievances over service, scutage, and incidents are the central concern of the passage.
The barons wished to refer such questions to the judicium parium.
By forfeitures and the division of inheritances, holders of English and of Norman fiefs had become distinct.
It was otherwise with the duties of military service, which were rendered every year more unwillingly, partly because of the increased frequency of warlike expeditions, partly because of the greater cost of campaigning in distant lands like Poitou, partly because the English barons were completely out of sympathy with John’s foreign policy and with him.