Code of Magnus Ladulås

Name: Code of Magnus Ladulås
Start: 1279

Type Event Region Northern Europe Time 1279

In 1279, Swedish King Magnus III (Magnus Ladulås) issued the Code of Ladulås, establishing hereditary estate rights for the knightly nobility, limiti…

Timeline

1275–1278Around Stockholm · SvealandAfter suppressing domestic rebellions and consolidating his authority, Magnus III faced a growing knightly nobility and began responding to their demands for hereditary estates and protection from arbitrary royal seizure, preparing the ground for written legislation.
1279Kingdom of Sweden · SwedenThe code formally confirmed the knightly nobility's hereditary rights to their fiefs, prohibited the king from confiscating noble estates without lawful cause, and adjusted the obligations between nobles and free peasants, becoming an important component of Sweden's medieval written law.

Sources

Magnus Erikssons landslag och stadslag https://sok.riksarkivet.se/
The Cambridge History of Scandinavia, Volume 1: Prehistory to 1520 — Knut Helle (ed.) (2003)