Safe-conduct

Safe-conduct
Passage allowed through a territory for peaceful purposes; it was often given to students, merchants, knights on their way to tournament, certain heralds & messengers, and pilgrims. Such safe-conducts could either be issued by the Prince of a region; these were general proclamations that bound the prince’s subjects to respect the passage. The other safe-conducts were offered by individual nobles, issued as sealed guarantees, where the noble himself extended their own protection to the holder of the safe passage. These writs named a specific recipient by name, the number of people in his party allowed to pass, the goods they could carry. Other goods carried were subject to confiscation--this was not an uncommon occurrence. Knights on their way to tournament were frequently given such safe conducts, they are specifically mentioned in several tournament declarations.

Medieval glossary. 2014.

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