The Council of Luxembourg was the central institution in the government of the
Duchy of Luxembourg
The Duchy of Luxemburg ( nl, Luxemburg; french: Luxembourg; german: Luxemburg; lb, Lëtzebuerg) was a state of the Holy Roman Empire, the ancestral homeland of the noble House of Luxembourg. The House of Luxembourg, now Duke of Limburg, becam ...
from 1444 to 1795, in direct descent from the medieval council of the dukes. It was a body that had both administrative and judicial authority. The council was reorganized by
Charles V Charles V may refer to:
* Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (1500–1558)
* Charles V of Naples (1661–1700), better known as Charles II of Spain
* Charles V of France (1338–1380), called the Wise
* Charles V, Duke of Lorraine (1643–1690)
* Infan ...
in 1531–1532.
[R. Petit, "Keizerlijke verordening houdend reglement van de Raad van Luxemburg, 1532", tr. M. Grauwen, in ''Doorheen de nationale geschiedenis'' (State Archives in Belgium, Brussels, 1980), pp. 132-141.] Until 1782, legal decisions of the council could be appealed to the
Great Council of Mechelen
From the 15th century onwards, the Great Council of the Netherlands at Mechelen (Dutch: ''De Grote Raad der Nederlanden te Mechelen''; French: ''le grand conseil des Pays-Bas à Malines''; German: ''der Grosse Rat der Niederlände zu Mecheln'') w ...
. On 1 August 1782 the council was made "sovereign", that is, the highest court in its jurisdiction.
The council was abolished on 7 June 1795.
References
Further reading
*M. Bourguignon, ''Inventaires du Conseil de Luxembourg'', 2 vols. (Brussels, 1961).
*M.N.J. Leclercq, ''Coutumes des Pays, Duché de Luxembourg et Comté de Chiny''
vol. 2(Brussels, 1869), 84-166.
*N. Majerus, ''Histoire du droit dans le Grand-Duché de Luxembourg'', vol. 2 (Luxembourg, 1949), pp. 394–399, 687–688.
*R. Petit, "Le Conseil des Comtes de Luxembourg des origines au début du XIVe siècle", ''Revue du Nord'' 39 (1957), 164–165.
*N. Van Werveke, "Notice sur le Conseil Provincial de Luxembourg avant sa réorganisation par Charles Quint (c. 1200-1531)", ''Publ. Sect. Hist. Inst. Lux.'', vol. 40 (1888), 253–382.
*R. Warlomont, "Le Conseil provincial de justice du Luxembourg de 1531 à 1785", ''Standen en Landen'' 15 (1958), 108–124.
Legal history of Belgium
Early Modern Luxembourg
Defunct courts
Duchy of Luxembourg
1440s establishments in the Burgundian Netherlands
15th century in Luxembourg
1795 disestablishments in Europe
18th-century disestablishments in the Southern Netherlands
18th-century disestablishments in Luxembourg
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Courts and tribunals established in 1444
Courts and tribunals disestablished in 1795
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