king's court
Monarch's formal gathering
The king's court is the formal assembly of a monarch's advisors, nobles, and attendants, or the physical space where such gatherings occur.
Historically, the court was the center of political power and social life: She sought favor at the king's court.
The term also refers to royal tribunals that administered justice in the sovereign's name.
- chancellorSenior administrative official
- medieval monarchyRoyal rule before modernity
- coronationCeremony installing a sovereign
- palaceMonarch's official residence
- good gracesFavorable standing with someone
high treason · throne room · steward · crown · councilor · feast · royal seal · herald · dynastic succession · noble birth · ruling class · inner circle · chamberlain · great hall · envoy · scepter · absolutism · orb
- feudal lawfeudal rights, feudal system, seigneurial rights, fiefs, vassalage
king's courtparliament
National legislative assembly
republic · legislature · representative democracy · democracy · town hall
king's courtpeasant village
Small rural farming community
common people · the masses · slums · slum · servants' quarters
king's courthinterlands
Remote inland areas
frontier · provinces · countryside · borderlands · outskirts
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