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In medieval times, English coroners were Crown officials who held financial powers and conducted some judicial investigations in order to counterbalance the power of sheriffs or bailiffs. Depending on the jurisdiction, the coroner may adjudge the cause of death personally, or may act as the presiding officer of a special court (a " coroner's ...
Local knights were appointed coroners to record crown pleas to be presented to the justices. The motivation for this administrative reform was the need to raise money for King Richard's reconquest of Normandy. The coroners were also required to account for the wealth forfeited by the rebels and list the financial resources of each shire. [3]
History of the Medieval English Coroner System by Prof. Bernard Knight, The Bernard Knight literary archive is housed at Special Collections and Archives, Cardiff University. Authority control databases
According to Hunnisett, "during the thirteenth century, no other coroner was allowed to act within the verge, with the result that many felonies were not presented to the justices in eyre after the king's court had moved on...", [2] and Richard Clarke Sewell tells us that "Anciently the Coroner of the Verge had power to do all things within the Verge belonging to the office of the Coroner, to ...
The Crowner John Mysteries are a series of novels by Bernard Knight following the fictional life of Sir John de Wolfe, a former Crusading knight appointed to the office of Keeper of the Pleas of the King's Crown (custos placitorum coronas), i.e. the King's Crowner or Coroner, for the county of Devon.
A University of Cambridge research team has mapped murders that took place around the 14th century to create interactive murder maps of three English cities.
Oxford was the murder capital of late-medieval England, with the city’s male university population being the main catalyst for violence, according to new research.
Murder rate in medieval Oxford said to be 50 times higher than in 21st century English cities Medieval map reveals Oxford students once made city England’s ‘murder capital’ Skip to main content