Cortes
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Toponym from the Latin cohors, cohortis ('court, royal residence, assembly'), applied to the town that was historical seat of the General Cortes of the Kingdom of Navarre between the 12th and 15th centuries.
Navarrese town bordering Aragón, seat of various chapters of the General Cortes of the Kingdom of Navarre. The castle of the Marquises of Falces, Plateresque 16th-century on medieval fabric, preserves the hall where the Cortes of 1390 were held that crowned Charles III the Noble.
Evolution of the name
- cohors Latin 1st centuries BC–5th
- Cortes medieval Navarrese from the 12th century
Glossary
- General Cortes of Navarre
- Representative assembly of the Kingdom of Navarre between the 12th and 19th centuries, integrated by the three branches (nobility, clergy and towns) that approved laws, taxes and subsidies to the king. It met itinerantly in Pamplona, Estella, Sangüesa, Cortes and Olite. After Navarre's incorporation into the Crown of Castile (1512), it preserved the Cortes as institution of the Foral Kingdom until their definitive suppression in 1841 (Ley Paccionada).
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