Willem Van der Tanerijen

Willem Van der Tanerijen (died 1499) was a jurist in the Duchy of Brabant (the territory of which is now divided between the Netherlands and Belgium) whose manuscript treatise on the procedures of the major courts of the duchy is an important source for the legal history of the fifteenth century.^[1][2] He was also a proponent of university training in law.^[3]

Life

Sources on Van der Tanerijen's life are scarce. He was probably born in Antwerp, where he later served as an alderman. He was appointed to the Council of Brabant and later as master of requests of the Great Council of Mary of Burgundy.^[4]

Writings

• Boeck van der loopender practijken der raidtcameren van Brabant, edited by E.I Strubbe, 2 vols. (Brussels, Commission royale pour la publication des anciennes lois et ordonnances de la Belgique, 1952).^[5]

References

1. J. Stengers, "Composition, procédure et activité judiciaire du Grand Conseil de Marie de Bourgogne", Bulletin de la Commission royale d'histoire 109 (1945), pp. 9-10.
2. Jean-Marie Cauchies, "Le privilège ou la keure", in Das Privileg im europäischen Vergleich, part 1, edited by Barbara Dölemeyer and Heinz Mohnhaupt (Ius commune: Veröffentlichungen des Max-Planck instituts für Europäische rechtsgeschichte 125; Frankfurt am Main, 1997), p. 135.
3. R. C. Van Caenegem, "Roman Law in the Southern Netherlands", in Law, History, the Low Countries and Europe (London, 1994), p. 130.
4. E. I. Strubbe, "De vijftiendeeuwse Brabantse rechtsgeleerde Willelm van der Tanerijen", Tijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis 11 (1932), pp. 265-283.
5. Reviewed by Philippe Godding in Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire 33/2 (1955), pp. 436-440.