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<blockquote data-quote="haakon1" data-source="post: 5983198" data-attributes="member: 25619"><p>Not true in the period of the Norman Conquest to 1190 that "Lionheart" chronicles. Right makes right was the true law of the land.</p><p></p><p>-- William the Conqueror was the bastard son of the Duke of Normandy, and claimed the dead King of England made him his heir. Two other men claimed it was promised to them.</p><p></p><p>-- A generation or two later, Stephen and Maud fought each other for decades in "the Anarchy" until Stephen made peace by recognizing the heir the other side wanted. This is the period the Brother Cadfael mysteries are set in.</p><p></p><p>-- Richard the Lionheart, Prince John, and their other two legitimate brothers spent most of their lives struggling with their father and each other over their future inheritance, with John Lackland -- who his father gave no lands -- trying to take it all. "The Lion in Winter" is a good old movie about this period.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>That's not how I remember it. English circuit courts (to try crimes in the name of the king) date back to at least Norman times, and I think Sheriffs were royal appointees to bring in troublemakers to the courts.</p><p></p><p>Perhaps there were multiple types of sheriffs, though.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Sheriff_of_Nottinghamshire,_Derbyshire_and_the_Royal_Forests" target="_blank">High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and the Royal Forests - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</a></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Or he declares a pogrom against you so he doesn't have to pay you back!</p><p></p><p>My point is, the Middle Ages were such a long period, with so much variation across Europe and across time, that you can probably do whatever you want with your campaign and have it be historical accurate-ish, to somewhere at sometime! It's not as cut and dried and codified as we'd like to think from our post-Enlightenment world view. Messy and peculiaristic was the overriding rule.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="haakon1, post: 5983198, member: 25619"] Not true in the period of the Norman Conquest to 1190 that "Lionheart" chronicles. Right makes right was the true law of the land. -- William the Conqueror was the bastard son of the Duke of Normandy, and claimed the dead King of England made him his heir. Two other men claimed it was promised to them. -- A generation or two later, Stephen and Maud fought each other for decades in "the Anarchy" until Stephen made peace by recognizing the heir the other side wanted. This is the period the Brother Cadfael mysteries are set in. -- Richard the Lionheart, Prince John, and their other two legitimate brothers spent most of their lives struggling with their father and each other over their future inheritance, with John Lackland -- who his father gave no lands -- trying to take it all. "The Lion in Winter" is a good old movie about this period. That's not how I remember it. English circuit courts (to try crimes in the name of the king) date back to at least Norman times, and I think Sheriffs were royal appointees to bring in troublemakers to the courts. Perhaps there were multiple types of sheriffs, though. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Sheriff_of_Nottinghamshire,_Derbyshire_and_the_Royal_Forests]High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and the Royal Forests - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/url] Or he declares a pogrom against you so he doesn't have to pay you back! My point is, the Middle Ages were such a long period, with so much variation across Europe and across time, that you can probably do whatever you want with your campaign and have it be historical accurate-ish, to somewhere at sometime! It's not as cut and dried and codified as we'd like to think from our post-Enlightenment world view. Messy and peculiaristic was the overriding rule. [/QUOTE]
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