Assizes of Jerusalem

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The Assizes of Jerusalem were a foundational collection of medieval legal codes and customs that governed feudal, civil, and criminal matters in the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem.

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Label Occurrences
Assizes of Jerusalem canonical 3
Assizes of Romania 1

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf law book
medieval legal code
source of feudal law
appliesTo civil law
criminal law
feudal law
compiledBy jurists of the Kingdom of Jerusalem
contains provisions on the Court of the Burgesses
provisions on the High Court of Jerusalem
rules on oaths and ordeals
rules on trial by combat
developedInContextOf Crusades
follows customary law of the Kingdom of Jerusalem
genre legal treatise
historicalSignificance major source for understanding Crusader institutions
one of the most extensive surviving law codes from a Crusader state
influenced legal traditions of other Crusader states
influencedBy Roman law traditions
Western European feudal law
canon law
jurisdiction Kingdom of Jerusalem
surface form: Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem
language Latin
Old French
legalSystemOf Kingdom of Jerusalem
regulates criminal sanctions
feudal obligations of vassals
inheritance law
judicial procedure
land tenure
relations between king and barons
urban law in the kingdom
relatedWork Livre au Roi
Livre des Assises de la Cour des Barons
Livre des Assises de la Cour des Bourgeois
studiedIn Crusader studies
medieval legal history
subject feudal institutions in the Latin East
procedural law in the Kingdom of Jerusalem
rights and duties of lords and vassals
survivesAs later manuscript redactions
timePeriod High Middle Ages
traditionallyAttributedTo Baldwin II of Jerusalem
Baldwin III of Jerusalem
Fulk of Jerusalem
usedBy Frankish nobility in the Levant
Kingdom of Jerusalem
surface form: royal courts of the Kingdom of Jerusalem

Referenced by (4)

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Kingdom of Jerusalem legalSystem Assizes of Jerusalem
Outremer hasLegalSystem Assizes of Jerusalem
Kingdom of Cyprus legalSystem Assizes of Jerusalem
Principality of Achaea legalSystem Assizes of Jerusalem
this entity surface form: Assizes of Romania