Reform of the French Parlements

Timeline

1. 1450–1453Paris Parlement · ParisAfter the Hundred Years' War, judges of the Paris Parlement were mostly drawn from the nobility and office-buying classes and often resisted royal edicts through the 'registration' procedure. Charles VII viewed this as an obstacle to centralization and began planning a reform of the judicial system.
2. 1454–1458Paris · Île-de-FranceCharles VII issued multiple edicts shortening the period for the parlements to review and register royal edicts, limiting judges' ability to veto fiscal and military edicts through 'protests,' and establishing the curia regis as the final arbiter.
3. 1456–1460Jurisdictions of the provincial parlements of France · FranceThe crown made personnel adjustments in the Paris and certain provincial parlements (such as those at Grenoble and Bordeaux), replacing disobedient judges, clarifying the jurisdiction of each provincial court over royal reconquered territories, and bringing the parlements into a unified framework of royal justice.