Parliament of Normandy

The Parliament of Normandy , which one called also Parliament of Rouen , because it held its meetings with Rouen, capital city of the province of Normandy, for which it had been established, car its origin of the court of the chess-board of Normandy, instituted by Rollon, first duke of Normandy.

History

Set up in court sovereign and made sedentary with Rouen by Louis XII, the name of this court was changed “chess-board” into that of “Parliament” by François I {{er}} with its advent into 1515.

The Parliament of Rouen included/understood in its spring the seven large bailliages of Normandy of Rouen, Caudebec-in-Caux, Évreux, Andelys, Caen, Coutances and Alençon

It was then composed of four presidents, of which the first and the third were clerks and two the other laic ones, of thirteen advisers clerks and fifteen laic advisers, of two clerks, one for the civilian, the other for the criminal, of an usher and six other ushers, and of two prosecuting attorneys and a public prosecutor. According to the letters of the year 1507 granted by Louis XII, the archbishop of Rouen and the abbot of Saint-Ouen were advisers of honor born at the Parliament.

When the court of the chess-board was made perpetual, it was divided into two rooms, one to judge the morning and the other for the afternoon. This second room was then called the first of the investigations. The room of the Small tower, in charge of the criminal cases, was built in 1519 and the room of vacations will be established only in 1547. Until on October 1st 1506, the Parliament of Normandy held its meetings with the castle of Rouen then, then, in the palate whose construction had been started since 1499 and who was however completed only a long time afterwards.

Several kings of France held of the beds of justice at the Parliament of Normandy. Charles VIII held of it April 27th 1485 and confirmed the privileges of Normandy there. Louis XII came there accompanied by the principal officers from his court the October 24th 1508. The August 2nd 1517, François Ier was due to it, accompanied by the chancellor Duprat and several officers of its court, a bed of justice. A few days after, the dolphin came to the Parliament, where one returned the same honors to him as to the king even, as François Ier had ordered it. To January 1518, it granted to the Parliament of Normandy the same privileges of which that enjoyed Paris, and, by another edict of next February, it granted to him a temporary exemption of the arriere-ban.

The October 8th 1550, Henri II held bed of justice at the Parliament of Rouen, accompanied by cardinals, the king Henri II of Navarre, several dukes, of the constable Anne de Montmorency, of the admiral, the duke of Longueville, the chancellor Olivier, and several other lords. Charles IX was made there declare major, being accompanied by the chancellor Michel of Hospital.

In 1523, François Ier granted to the Parliament the exemption of gabelle and ordered that it would be delivered, with each one of its officers and its widow, as much of salt than it would be necessary some for his house, without fixing the quantity of it, by paying only the price of the merchant, with the proviso of not misusing this privilege.

In 1540, the chancellor Guillaume Poyet having upset the king against the Parliament of Rouen, this one was prohibited. Police chiefs were named for the Small tower, and a president and twelve advisers sent to Bayeux, to return justice on the subjects of Basse-Normandie until the king raises his prohibition; and wanting to give to the officers of this court a mark of the satisfaction which it had of their control, in June 1542, it returned to them, by an edict, the exemption of the arriere-ban of 1518 general and perpetual.

In February 1589, an edict of the month transferred, following the rising of Rouen against the king, the Parliament of Normandy in the town of Caen before being there restored by another edict on April 8th 1594. Prohibited functions in again 1639, to be itself not rather strongly opposite with the Revolt of the tramps, it was replaced by police chiefs of the Parliament of Paris until its re-establishment by an edict of January 1641.

In 1560, the Parliament of Normandy was removed with the other Parliaments of province before being restored in June 1568 by Charles IX. In April 1545, François Ier establishes a court of criminal appeal charged to judge the businesses concerning the Protestants which was replaced by a room of the edict, under the terms of the execution of the edict of Nantes of April 1598, in its removed turn in January 1685 with the edict of Fontainebleau. Composed at the time of 57 advisers and two presidents, an edict of July 1680 created one second room of the investigations, following what the Parliament of Rouen was composed, until the Révolution, of five rooms, the large-room, the Small tower, two rooms of the investigations and the room of the requests of the palate.

In 1590, Henri IV creates a Parliament with Caen, rival of that of Rouen, which does not recognize it for king, and where the members of Parliament go who are faithful for him.

It is at the Parliament of Normandy that took place since 1728 the general meetings of the deputies of different the courses and other notable for the public affairs, as the needs for the hospitals and other needs.

Organization

The large-room was made up of the first president and two other presidents with mortar, three born advisers of honor, who were the archbishop of Rouen, the abbot of Saint-Ouen and the marquis of Bridge-Saint-Pierre. There were also sometimes other advisers of honor, such as the bishop of Sées; in addition to these advisers of honor there were twenty-eight other advisers, including eight clerks and twenty laic.

The Small tower was composed of three presidents with mortar, six advisers of the large-room, six of the first of the investigations and as much of the second, which changed with all the calls of the bailliages. Each room of the investigations was composed of two presidents with mortar and twenty-eight advisers, between whom there are nine clerks of them, distributed in the two rooms. The room of the requests of the palate was composed of two presidents and eleven advisers. There were a clerk as a chief of the Parliament and four notaries secretaries of the king close this Parliament, a clerk of the assertions, a clerk of the Small tower, a clerk for each room of the investigations and at the requests of the palate a clerk as a chief and a clerk clerk. The parquet floor was composed of two prosecuting attorneys and a public prosecutor and nine substitutes, which made the lawyer function of the king at the requests of the palate. The ushers of the Parliament were eight, without counting the first usher; there were moreover three ushers at the requests. There was more than one hundred lawyers and fifty six prosecutors.

The chancellery close the Parliament of Rouen was established by edict of April 1499, during the establishment of the chess-board, in court sovereign and sedentary in Rouen and the office of Minister of Justice was given to the cardinal of Amboise. Its nephew Georges II of Amboise, cardinal and archbishop of Rouen, succeeded to him this office. In October 1701, a chancellery close the court of the assistances was created which, by another edict of June 1704, was plain with that of the Parliament. It was composed of a two secretary, of the king ushers, four controllers, four secretary Minister of Justice of the king, receivers and payers of the pledges, eight chief clerks, seven guards minutes and three ushers.

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