King's ban
Königsbann, literally king's ban, was the exercise of royal jurisdiction in the Holy Roman Empire.
A specific ban identified:
- the actual order or prohibition
- the penalties for contravening the ban
- the region to which the ban applied
The king used a so-called Bannleihe to transfer the ban, especially the Blutbann, to counts or advocates to exercise.
Literature
- Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch, I 1967, Sp. 1341 - 1348 s.v. bannus
- Heinrich Mitteis; Heinz Lieberich, Deutsche Rechtsgeschichte. Ein Studienbuch. Munich, 1974 u.ö.