The seal of Reinoud, Lord of Valkenburg (+1333) seems to be the only knightly seal to depict poleyns attached to the Charter of Kortenberg of September 27, 1312.
With this charter the Duchy of Brabant was the first state in the Low Countries, or perhaps even the first state in Europe, to give the estates the right for participation and to limit the power of the nobility. It is actually one of the first democratic decisions in feudal Europe.
Note that the charter was written in Middle Dutch and not in Latin nor in French.
The charter was signed by duke John II of Brabant (just a month before he died), many Brabantine nobles, knights and cities (Leuven, Brussels, Antwerp, ’s-Hertogenbosch, Tienen and Zoutleeuw), and even the counts of Jülich, Loon and Vianden as the duke’s vassals regarding lands held from him.
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