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Sovereign Council of Navarre and Béarn

Sovereign Council of Navarre and Béarn

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The Sovereign Council of Navarre and Béarn (French: Conseil Souverain de Navarre et de Béarn) was created by Henry II of Navarre[1] at the Château de Pau[1] on 13 June 1519,[1] replacing the Cour Majour which was disbanded in 1490.

It functioned as a Conseil d'État and was composed of counsellors (French: conseillers), a prosecutor general (French: procureur général), a criminal prosecutor (French: procureur criminel), an attorney general (French: avocat général), several second presidents (French: second présidents) and one first president (French: premier président). These offices were essentially bought and sold, often passed down during generations within the same families. The purchase, sale or transfer of the office required the ratification of the Chambre des Comptes of Navarre in Pau, who acted on behalf of the king.

In October[2] 1620, together with the Chancery of Navarre based in Saint-Palais, it was merged to form the Parliament of Navarre and Béarn ("Parlement de Navarre et Béarn") in Pau.[3]

The registers of the Conseil Souverain of Navarre and Béarn for the period 1547 until 1620 are held Archives Départementales des Pyrénées-Atlantiques in Pau.

Notes

  1. [1]
    Laussat (1871), p. 166 (in French)
  2. [2]
    P. Saget (1831). Description du château de Pau et de ses dépendances. E. Vignancour. p. 46.
  3. [3]
    M. Guyot (Joseph Nicolas) (1784). Répertoire universel et raisonné de jurisprudence civile, criminelle, canonique et béneficiale: ouvrage de plusieurs jurisconsultes: mis en ordre & publié. Visse. p. 592.

References

  • Laussat, M. le baron de (1871). Société des Sciences, Lettres et Arts de Pau (ed.). "Extraits des Registres de la Chambre des Comptes de Pau (XVIe et XVIIe siècles.)" [Extracts from the Registers of the Chambre des Comptes of Pau (16th and 17th Centuries.)] (application/txt/pdf). Bulletin de la Société des Sciences, Lettres et Arts de Pau (in French). Vol. II série–1, no. 1871–72. Pau: Léon Ribaut, Librairie de la Société. pp. 60–64, 83–96, 127–144, 163–192, 254–264. ark:/12148/bpt6k34253p. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
  • SSLAP (1895). Société des Sciences, Lettres et Arts de Pau (ed.). "Extraits des Registres du Conseil souverain de Béarn (XVIe XVIIe siècles)" [Extracts from the Registers of the Sovereign Council of Béarn (16th and 17th centuries).] (application/txt/pdf). Bulletin de la Société des Sciences, Lettres et Arts de Pau. IIème Série. (in French). Vol. II série–24, no. 1894–95. Pau: Léon Ribault, Librairie de la Société. pp. 55–72. ark:/12148/bpt6k34276b. Retrieved 13 April 2016.
  • SSLAP (1896). Société des Sciences, Lettres et Arts de Pau (ed.). "Extraits des Registres du Conseil souverain de Béarn XVIe, XVIIe siècles (suite)" [Extracts from the Registers of the Sovereign Council of Béarn 16th and 17th centuries (continued).] (application/txt/pdf). Bulletin de la Société des Sciences, Lettres et Arts de Pau. IIème Série. (in French). Vol. II série–25, no. 1895–96. Pau: Léon Ribault, Librairie de la Société. pp. 127–150. ark:/12148/bpt6k34277p. Retrieved 13 April 2016.
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