Court party

A court party is generally used to refer to the supporters or partisans of a ruling monarch . Often, but not always, this term also has a negative connotation - in the sense of the monarch's favorites or a camarilla operating at or around court .

As court parties, however, groups that act and compete with one another at the ruling courts are also referred to.

Well-known court parties were u. A .:

• the court party in the Haute Cour of the Kingdom of Jerusalem .
• the court party to William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk , during the reign of Henry VI. in England in the 15th century.
• the "Court Party", which emerged in England in the second half of the 17th century and which became the Tories .
• the Swedish court party , which tried to give the king more influence during the so-called freedom period (1719–1772).
• the court party around Friedrich Wilhelm IV. , the Prussian crown prince and later king, which influenced him in a strictly conservative sense during the revolution of 1848/49.

literature

• Jan Hirschbiegel and Werner Paravicini (eds.): Residenzforschung 17. The case of the favorite. Court parties in Europe from the 13th to the 17th centuries. Thorbecke, Ostfildern, 2004, ISBN 3-7995-4517-4 .