Parlement of Toulouse The Parlement of Toulouse was one of the
parlements of ancien regime France, modeled on the Parlement of
Paris. It was first created in 1420, but definitely established
by edicts in 1437 and 1443 by Charles VII as an appellate court
of justice on civil, criminal and ecclesiastic affairs for the
Languedoc region, including Quercy, the County of Foix and
Armagnac. It was the first parlement in the south of France, and
it gained in prestige both by its distance from Paris and from
the differences between southern France's legal system (based on
Roman law) and northern France's. After the Parlement of Paris,
the Parlement of Toulouse had the largest jurisdiction in
France. Its purview extended from the Rhône to the Atlantic
Ocean and from the Pyrénées to the Massif Central, but the
creation of the Parlement of Bordeaux in 1462 removed from its
jurisdiction Guyenne, Gascony, Landes, Agenais, Béarn and
Périgord. On 4 June 1444, the new parlement of Toulouse moved
into a chamber of Toulouse's c