Estates General (France)
unelected tricameral parliament in the Kingdom of France from 1302 to 1789
12 dated entries naming Estates General (France), drawn from 9 separate years between 1302 CE and 1614 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.
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14th century
- 1302April 10 – The first meeting of the Estates General in France is convened King Philip IV ("Philip the Fair") at the Notre-Dame in Paris. During the assembly, all three classes – the French nobles, clergy, and commons – discuss the conflict between Philip and Pope Boniface VIII over the papal legate, Bernard Saisset – who is accused to raise a rebellion of Occitan independence, associated with Navarre, under the banner of the County of Foix.source
- 1302April 10 – The first national assembly of the Estates General in France is convened King Philip IV at the Notre-Dame in Paris, to address a conflict with Pope Boniface VIII about the papal legate and charges of high treason against Bernard Saisset.source
- 1347King Phillip of France meets with the Estates General to ask for funds to further the war effort against the English.source
- 1357February 3 – The Estates General in France meets and passes Étienne Marcel's Great Ordinance in an attempt to impose limits on the monarchy, in particular in fiscal and monetary matters.source
- 1359May 25 – The French States-General repudiates the terms of the Second Treaty of London, signed earlier in the year between England and France.source
- 1369May 9 – At a meeting of the Estates General in Paris, the delegates approve the resumption of hostilities between France and England.source
- 1369December 7 – The Estates General in France approves the request by King Charles V to raise taxes in order to finance the renewed war with England.source
15th century
- 1448A gathering of the Estates General, a legislative and consultative assembly of the different classes (or estates) of French subjects was called by Charles VII at Bourges.source
- 1468April 1 – King Louis XI summons a meeting of France's parliament, the Estates-General, and obtains approval of all concessions he had previously made to the Kingdom of England, including those with reference to Normandy.source
- 14681 April – Meeting of the Estates General in Tours.source
16th century
- 1593January 26 – The Conseil of the Catholic League convenes the Estates General in Paris to receive the decisions of the Council of Trent and to consider the election of a Catholic sovereign, even if it means calling into question the Salic law. Isabella Clara Eugenia, Sovereign of the Habsburg Netherlands, Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy, Charles III, Duke of Lorraine, and two Catholic Bourbons are candidates. However, Henry IV of France takes the court of deputies by surprise in announcing his intention to return to the Catholic faith on May 17.source