Events Tagged: "court"

Alfred establishes hundred courts - subdivisions of shires with reeves presiding over local justice and collecting royal dues

Aelfthryth withdraws from court - queen mother absent from witness lists, possibly in disgrace or religious retreat

Aelfthryth returns to prominence - reappears on charters as 'the king's mother', rehabilitation complete

Marco Polo reaches Xanadu - presents papal letters to Kublai Khan, enters Mongol service, learns languages

Jesuits arrive at French Court - Within decade, confessors to Catholic nobility - Huguenot complaint: 'They turn our own learning against us'