Brittany
place · 2 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
Britanniam
in the texts
Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
Continental territory named in a proposed compromise over the scope of baronial military service obligations.
There is some ground for believing that a compromise was mooted on the basis that the barons should agree to serve in Normandy and Brittany, as well as in England, on being exempted from fighting elsewhere abroad.
Adhuc hominibus meis concedo ne eant in exercitu extra Angliam nisi in Normanniam et in Britanniam et hoc decenter;
Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
French region where the described territorial nobles were found.
Renan is publishing in the Revue des Deux Mondes, he describes a class of territorial nobles who were found in Brittany, just before the Revolution, and who were quite distinct from the later nobility of royal creation.