A Jurisdicionalização do Poder: D. Afonso IV e o Chamamento Geral

Abstract

The Chamamento Geral starred by D. Afonso IV, emerging from the structural agonism opposing the King to the Lords around the jurisdictional exercising, establishing itself as political mechanism through which the Monarch will unequivocally assert the superiority of the power it exerts, to the extent that it presents herself as the source and origin of all jurisdictions, the use of which by others is legitimate only in the royal will, or in a particular legislative provision, emanating from custom.

Thus, it is not so much the effective appropriation by the monarch of jurisdiction exercised by the Lords but fundamentally an unequivocal affirmation of the essential relation between royal power and jurisdiction.

Interceding with the King for it by his grace and mercy not annul the jurisdictions that uses, the nobility accepts the principles underlying the said device, assuming your power is merely derived.