Electoral Council
Electoral advice (mostly just advice , including household items , rarely a councilor ) was the name given to advisors at electoral courts up to the 16th century. After that the title Privy Council came into use with a slightly different meaning.
General
Councilors were employees at the electoral court. They met at regular intervals for deliberations.
Brandenburg
In the Electorate of Brandenburg , the councils were appointed by the sovereign. Up until the 15th century, they met at longer intervals for consultations with the elector. You were also on the road as his envoy and decided independently in legal matters, in smaller matters too.
Since the 16th century they met more often for regular meetings. The Chancellor was in the chair, while the Court Marshal monitored the formal rules.
Councilors were both noble and knights . Since the 15th century, the electors like outdated scholar with a degree as Magister or Doctor of general and canon law for assistance in legal matters with other farms.
Further development
Since the 17th century, the designation Privy Council was in use at the courts. These were only active as advisors, no longer in legal matters that were dealt with by a higher court .
Individual evidence
- ^ Gerhard Oestreich (Ed.): Government and Administration. Collected treatises on the state, legal and social history of Prussia. by Otto Hintze. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1967. pp. 223-230.
- ↑ Suse Andresen: On a princely order: The learned councilors of the Electors of Brandenburg from the House of Hohenzollern in the 15th century. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2017.