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The Exchequer of Normandy (''Échiquier de Normandie'') or Exchequer of Rouen (''Échiquier de Rouen'') was the fiscal and administrative court of the
Essai historique sur l'Échiquier de Normandie
', Rouen, Édouard Frère, 1840. {{Authority control Duchy of Normandy 1508 endings Courts and tribunals disestablished in the 16th century Courts and tribunals established in the 12th century Courts in France Administrative courts Defunct courts Legal history of the Ancien Régime Public finance
The Exchequer of Normandy (''Échiquier de Normandie'') or Exchequer of Rouen (''Échiquier de Rouen'') was the fiscal and administrative court of the Duchy of Normandy
The Duchy of Normandy grew out of the 911 Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte between King Charles III of West Francia and the Viking leader Rollo. The duchy was named for its inhabitants, the Normans.
From 1066 until 1204, as a result of the Norman c ...
until the early 16th century.
Surviving records show that the Exchequer of Normandy was operating in 1180, while the English Exchequer existed in 1110. No establishment date is known for either and therefore it is impossible to know which existed first. The '' Dialogue concerning the Exchequer'' presents it as a general belief that the Norman kings established the English Exchequer loosely modelled on the Norman one, while noting with some doubt an alternative view that an English Exchequer existed in Anglo-Saxon times.
In 1315 the Norman Barons pressed a new charter, the "Charte aux Normands", on Louis X of France
Louis X (4 October 1289 – 5 June 1316), known as the Quarrelsome (french: le Hutin), was King of France from 1314 and King of Navarre as Louis I from 1305 until his death. He emancipated serfs who could buy their freedom and readmitted Jews in ...
, with the result that the decisions of the Exchequer of Normandy were declared final, meaning that Paris could not overturn decisions made in Rouen, and that the King could not raise a new tax on the Normans without their approval.
The Exchequer of Normandy was later superseded by the Parliament of Normandy in 1508.
Sources
* '' Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers'' by Diderot &d’Alembert
Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert (; ; 16 November 1717 – 29 October 1783) was a French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher, and music theorist. Until 1759 he was, together with Denis Diderot, a co-editor of the ''Encyclopédie ...
, vol. 5, p. 260.
References
* Amable Floquet,Essai historique sur l'Échiquier de Normandie
', Rouen, Édouard Frère, 1840. {{Authority control Duchy of Normandy 1508 endings Courts and tribunals disestablished in the 16th century Courts and tribunals established in the 12th century Courts in France Administrative courts Defunct courts Legal history of the Ancien Régime Public finance