John Fortescue (lawyer)

John Fortescue

Sir John Fortescue (* 1394 in Norris , Devonshire , † 1476 in Gloucestershire ) was an English political writer during the Renaissance .

Life

Fortescue came from a noble family in Devonshire and in 1442 became Chief Justice of the Royal Court of Justice. When King Edward IV ascended the throne (1461), Fortescue had to flee first to Scotland and then to France , but in 1473 he made peace with the king. As an outstanding legal scholar and author of the important legal work "De laudibus legum Angliae" he is one of the founding fathers of the British constitution. Fortescue advocated the strengthening of the lower house as an antipole to the upper house, the House of Lords .

Works

Sir John Fortescue: "On the Laws and Governance of England" , 1997, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0521434459

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Royle, Trevor: The Wars of the Roses; England's first civil war. Abacus, London, 2009, ISBN 978-0-349-11790-4 , p. 445

Web links

Literature by and about John Fortescue (lawyer) in the WorldCat bibliographic database

Portrait of Sir John Fortescue

Book A learned commendation of the politique lawes of England

Fortescue - excerpts from the family history

literature

Ralph A. Griffiths: The Reign of Henry VI. The exercise of the royal authority. 1422-1461 . Benn, London et al. 1981, ISBN 0-510-26261-9 .

personal data
SURNAME	Fortescue, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Fortescue, Sir John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	English political writer
DATE OF BIRTH	1394
PLACE OF BIRTH	Norris , Devonshire
DATE OF DEATH	1476
Place of death	Gloucestershire

[Rose445-1] A ^b Royle, Trevor: The Wars of the Roses; England's first civil war. Abacus, London, 2009, ISBN 978-0-349-11790-4 , p. 445