
... 1201 (810 years ago today), Guillaume III, Count of Ponthieu and husband of Alix, the sister of the French King, promulgated the Charte de Commune de Ponthoile, a town in the Picardie region of northern France. (credit for image of the count's seal) Modeled on an 1184 charter adopted in nearby Abbeville, it guaranteed communal liberties -- many in the form of criminal-justice rights.
(Prior November 7 posts are here, here, here, and here.)
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