Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

witenagemot

[Anglo-Saxon "a meeting of the wise"] Hist. A national assembly of noblemen, high ecclesiastics, and other great thanes of England who advised and aided the kin in the general administration of the government. ( Its composition depended on the will of the king. It passed out of existence with the Norman Conquest (1066). Although it was a precursor to the British Parliament, that was a separate growth - not a continuation of the witenagemot. - Also spelled witenagemot; wittenagemot; witanagemote.