advocatus

He seems to have been known to his contemporaries more as an advocatus and a poet.

The same causes that led to the development of the feudal system also affected the advocatus.

An advocatus, or advocate, was generally a medieval term meaning "lawyer".

But the causes that changed the character of the advocatus operated also in the case of the vidame.

He returned to Constantinople in 554 to finish his training, and practised as an advocatus(scholasticus) in the courts.

When the central power over the area decreased, county leaders, called in Latin advocatus or in German Vögte were appointed from local administrators.

The office was not hereditary, the advocatus being chosen, either by the abbot alone, or by the abbot and bishop concurrently with the count.

He reserved the power of advocatus and released those who were at the siege and their heirs trading in Portugal from the commercial tax called the pedicata.

Octavian secretly enlists Timon to find Pullo an advocatus, but there are no takers among the idle lawyers in town.

If I am to reign in this place,' he turned pious eyes towards the altar, 'let me rule by this title: Advocatus Sancti Sepulchri!'

The early counts of Ponthieu originally were styled advocatus of the abbey of Saint Riquier and "castellan" of Abbeville.

About 1112, a scion of the Nahegau counts named Gerlach was hired as an Advocatus (or, to use the German form of the word, Vogt) to protect the Remigiusland.

He was a ruling Lord of Béthune, Richebourg and Warneton, as well as hereditary advocatus of the Abbey of St. Vaast, near Arras.

A new class of advocatus thus arose, whose office, commonly rewarded by a grant of land, crystallized into a fief, which, like other fiefs, had by the beginning of the 12th century become hereditary.

Herman II's father, Herman I was his legal successor as Count of Reinhausen, Count in the Leinegau, and advocatus of Reinhausen Abbey.

Subsequently trough Rudolph I of Germany (House of Habsburg) Haguenau became the seat of the Landvogt of Hagenau, the German imperial advocatus in Lower Alsace.

Although it is widely claimed that he took the title Advocatus Sancti Sepulchri ("advocate" or "defender" of the Holy Sepulchre), this title is only used in a letter that was not written by Godfrey.

Advocatus Ecclesiae is the Latin title, in the Middle Ages, of certain lay persons, generally of noble birth, whose duty it was, under given conditions, to represent a particular church or monastery, and to defend its rights against force.

Casimir was the eldest son of his father, Józef Pułaski, a well-known lawyer - the Advocatus at Crown Tribunal and the Starosta of Warka and one of the town most notable inhabitants.

In England, the word advocatus was never used to denote a hereditary representative of an abbot; but in some of the larger abbeys there were hereditary stewards whose functions and privileges were not dissimilar to those of the continental advocati.

Instead, the word advocatus, or more commonly avowee, was in constant use in England to denote the patron of an ecclesiastical benefice, whose sole right of any importance was a hereditary one of presenting a parson to the bishop for institution.

Crusader Prince Godfrey of Bouillon, who became the first crusader monarch of Jerusalem, decided not to use the title "king" during his lifetime, and declared himself Advocatus Sancti Sepulchri (Protector (or Defender) of the Holy Sepulchre).

The new party seemed to be dormant for a while, as confirmed by Davies himself on the British Democracy Forum where he regularly posts under the nom de plume "Advocatus Diaboli": "I shan't be returning to the fray as chairman of any post-Gri££in nationalist party, been there, done that!

The advocatus played a more important part in the feudal polity of the Empire and of the Low Countries than in France, where his functions, confined to the protection of the interests of religious houses, were superseded from the 13th century onwards by the growth of central power and the increasing efficiency of royal administration.