Henry de Bracton
Videos
Henry of Bracton, also known as Henry de Bracton, Henricus Bracton, Henry Bratton, and Henry Bretton, was an English cleric and jurist.
Henry de Bracton was appointed to the coram rege, the advisory council of Henry III of England. The photo shows Windsor Castle in Berkshire.
Bracton came from Devon and held circuit courts there. The picture is of Okehampton Castle in Devon
Bracton was influenced by the Decretum Gratiani
The title page of the first edition of Henry de Bracton's De legibus & consuetudinibus Angliæ (The Laws and Customs of England, 1569)
Ranulf de Glanvill
Videos
Ranulf de Glanvill was Chief Justiciar of England during the reign of King Henry II and was the probable author of Tractatus de legibus et consuetudinibus regni Anglie, the earliest treatise on the la
Henry de Bracton
…law, thus incorporating into English law several developments of medieval Roman law. Plucknett describes Bracton in this way: "Two generations after Ranulf de Glanvill we come to the flower and crown of English jurisprudence – Bracton." Bracton was born around 1210 in Devon and had a great deal of preferment in the…
The title page of a 1780 edition of Glanvill's Tractatus de legibus et consuetudinibus regni Angliæ