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Fortescue, John

Born circa 1394; died circa 1476. English jurist, political thinker, and statesman.

In 1442, Fortescue became chief justice of the King’s Bench. In 1460 he was made lord chancellor. At the beginning of the War of the Roses (1455–85), Fortescue sided with the house of Lancaster. In 1461, after the Lancastrians had suffered a defeat, he fled from England. Upon his return in 1471, Fortescue supported the house of York.

Fortescue’s political concepts constitute a transitional link between the ideology of the class-structured monarchy and the doctrine of absolutism. He held that the state should be governed by the monarch in agreement with Parliament. At the same time, Fortescue proposed a number of political measures aimed at increasing the real power of the king and converting the class-representational institutions from a means of controlling and limiting the king to a means of strengthening royal power.

WORKS

On the Governance of England. Oxford, 1885.
De laudibus legum Angliae. Cambridge, 1942.

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No references found	In particular Cromartie analyzes the views of Sir Edward Coke, Sir John Fortescue, Richard Hooker, Christopher St. The Constitutionalist Revolution: An Essay on the History of England, ... by Lehmberg, Stanford / Renaissance Quarterly Between 1468 and 1471, Sir John Fortescue, appointed Lord Chancellor by the Lancastrian government in exile, instructed the young Prince of Wales, Edward, the son of Henry VI, on the state of things as they were then and how he could improve on them when he was restored to his rightful place and became king. The Prince and the Professor: A Dialogue on the Place of the Monarchy ... by Blake, L.L. / Contemporary Review The doctrinal positions of "Bracton," Sir John Fortescue or Nicolas Oresme are so specific to the traditions of either France or England as to be incomprehensible to anyone from another tradition. Political Thought in Europe: 1250-1450 by Rowan, Steven / Renaissance Quarterly	John Dewey John Doe John Dollond John Donne John Dory John Douglas Cockcroft John Dryden John Edensor Littlewood John Edgar Hoover John Edward Redmond John Ellis McTaggart John Emil Max Eggert John Ernst Steinbeck John F Kennedy National Historic Site John F Kennedy Regional Park John Ferguson McLennan John Fillmore Hayford John Fisher, Saint John Fiske John Fitzgerald Kennedy John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site John Flamsteed John Flaxman John Fletcher John Ford John Fortescue John Foster Dulles John Francis Bray John Frank Schairer John Franklin John Franklin Enders John Frederick Charles Fuller John Frederick I John Frederick William Herschel John Fullarton John Galsworthy John Gay John George John Gilmore John Glenn John Gollan John Goodricke John Gorrie Museum State Park John Grahame Douglas Clark John Gray John Greer Dill John Grierson John H. Chafee National Wildlife Refuge at Pettaquamscutt Cove John Hadley John Hampden John Hancock	John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site John Flamsteed John Flamsteed John Flamsteed Community School John Flaxman John Flaxman John Fleming John Fletcher John Fletcher John Fletcher (disambiguation) John Fletcher (disambiguation) John Florio John Florio John Flynn Placement Program John Flynn Scholarship Scheme John Forbes Kerry John Force Racing John Ford John Ford John Ford (1895-1973) John Ford (1895-1973) John Ford (director) John Ford (director) John Ford (film director) John Ford (film director) John Ford statue John Ford statue John Forrest National Park John Forrest Senior High School John Forsyth John Fortescue John Foster John Foster Dulles John Foster Dulles John Foster Dulles John Foster Dulles High School John Foster Dulless John Foster Dulless John Fowles John Foxe John Francis Bray John Francis Encke John Francis Hamtramck Claiborne John Francis Whelan John Frank Schairer John Frankenheimer John Franklin John Franklin Enders John Frederick Charles Fuller John Frederick I John Frederick I, Elector of Saxony John Frederick William Herschel John Frederick William Herschel John Freeman Building John French, 1st Earl of Ypres John Friedman Alice Kimm Architects

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In particular Cromartie analyzes the views of Sir Edward Coke, Sir John Fortescue, Richard Hooker, Christopher St.

The Constitutionalist Revolution: An Essay on the History of England, ... by Lehmberg, Stanford / Renaissance Quarterly

Between 1468 and 1471, Sir John Fortescue, appointed Lord Chancellor by the Lancastrian government in exile, instructed the young Prince of Wales, Edward, the son of Henry VI, on the state of things as they were then and how he could improve on them when he was restored to his rightful place and became king.

The Prince and the Professor: A Dialogue on the Place of the Monarchy ... by Blake, L.L. / Contemporary Review

The doctrinal positions of "Bracton," Sir John Fortescue or Nicolas Oresme are so specific to the traditions of either France or England as to be incomprehensible to anyone from another tradition.

Political Thought in Europe: 1250-1450 by Rowan, Steven / Renaissance Quarterly

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