biography
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Glanvill, Ranulf de
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| lived:
| (?–1190)
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| biography:
| Jurist, born in Stratford St Andrew, Suffolk, E England, UK. As sheriff of Lancashire he defeated the Scottish king William the Lion at Alnwick (1174), who accepted the feudal lordship of the English king Henry II. From 1180 to 1189 he fought and negotiated with the Welsh and the French, and helped the king against his sons. In 1190 he went with Richard I on a crusade to the Holy Land, and died at Acre. He was the reputed author of the earliest treatise on the laws of England, the Tractatus de legibus et consuetudinibus Angliae (c.1187, Treatise on the Laws and Customs of England), which describes the procedure of the king's courts. The Tractus is a brief but lucid exposition of the law, based on the writs which initiated actions, and is historically very important. |
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