One calls fors of Béarn the complex whole of legal texts (privileges, payments, legal decisions, tariffs, forms) accumulated in the Viscount of Béarn between 11th and the 12th century. The integral version oldest which reached us date of the 15th century.

Etymology

The Gascon for comes from the Latin forum iudicium .

Development of the fors

11th century

About 1080, the Viscount Centulle V of Béarn promulgates a edict of population for the antique quoted of Iluro (Oloron-Holy-Marie) with an aim of repopulating it. He will constitute the embryo of future the For d' Oloron .

12th century

In 1102, the Viscount Gaston IV of Béarn grants his capital Morlaàs a privilege, core of future the for of Morlaàs .

The general for , applicable to all Béarn, is promulgated in 1188 by Gaston VI of Béarn. It includes clauses which date from second half of the 11th century.

13th century

In first half of the 13th century, the Viscounts Guillaume de Moncade and Gaston VII of Béarn grant fors to each Pyrenean valley:

• Valley of Ossau: 1221
• Valley of Barétous: towards 1220
• First edict of the Valley of Winder: 1247
• Second edict of the valley of Winder: 1250

Posterior evolution

At the 16th century, whereas Béarn constituted an independent state, the monarchs Henri II of Navarre and Jeanne d' Albret reorganize and improve the fors .

In 1620, Louis XIII attaches Béarn to the crown of France, but preserves the fors , which continue to govern the life of the Viscount until their abolition during the revolution of 1789.

Internal bonds

• List of the Viscounts of Béarn
• For (right)

Sources

• Fors de Béarn. New legislation of eleventh at the sixteenth century , with translation in glance and notes, 1847, Mazure, Hatoulet, in-4°.
• Pierre Tucoo-Chala, When Islam was with the doors of the Pyrenees , Biarritz, J&D Editions, 1994.
• Jean Omnes, Guide of the curious one: High Béarn, Pyremonde , 2006.

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