Great Landsmeet
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The Great Landsmeet was a socio-political institution in Urcea during the early history of Urcea. As a descendant of the tribal assembly of ancient Great Levantia, it sat as the primary representative of the estates of Urcea and served a quasi-legislative role in addition to being an advisory body for the Apostolic King of Urcea. It had the authority to approve or deny the levy of new taxes. The Landsmeet was first convened in 1022 and was envisioned as a way to mitigate disputes between the estates of Urcea while also strengthening the rule of the Julian dynasty by implementing a kind of rule-by-consensus, an early example of later principles of the Constitution of Urcea. The Landsmeet only required the optimate heads of Estates to convene as opposed to the earlier tribal assembly, making it a much more flexible institution to convene. In 1146, the Landsmeet was augmented with a Common Council, today's Concilium Daoni, which was intended to allow members of other social classes to provide arbitration between the Landsmeet and the King. Due to the declining power of the estates, the growing power of the privilegiata, and fact that the Daoni could meet with any number of local representatives rather than the specific nobles of the Landsmeet, the Daoni was increasingly invested with authorities previously reserved to the Landsmeet. It took its full legal authority in the early 13th century, further precipitating the decline of noble authority. The Landsmeet would meet for the last time in 1243, though it would not be formally dissolved until the 15th century.
A meeting of all the estates of Urcea was convened in 1858 by Aedanicus VIII and was referred to contemporaneously as the "Great Landsmeet of 1858". This Landsmeet, which met to approve the implementation of the tria nomina system, is not largely considered to be the same institution as the original Landsmeets by most legal scholars.