Coronation Oath

Henry II's Coronation Oath
taken from
 Sir Henry Spelman; David Wilkins; Willian Nicolson (1721). Leges anglo-saxonicae ecclesiasticae & civiles: Accedunt leges Edvardi latinae, Guilielmi Conquestoris gallo-normannicae, et Henrici I. latinae. Subjungitur domini Henr. Spelmanni Codex legum veterum statutorum regni angliae, quae ab ingressu Guilielm I. usque ad annum nonum Henr. III edita sunt. Toti operi praemittitur Dissertation epistolaris admodum reverendi domini Guilielmi Nicolsoni episcopi derrensis de jure feudali veterum saxonum. typis G. Bowyer, impensis R. Gosling.  p. 318
part of which itself is taken from a letter
Becket to Henry II  Hovenden p. 497

References

R. Foreville
"Le sacré des rois anglo-normands et angevins et le serment du sacré (XIe - XIIe Siècles)"
R. Allen Brown; Marjorie Chibnall (1979). Proceedings of the Battle Conference on Anglo-Norman Studies: 1978. Boydell Press. pp. 49–. ISBN 978-0-85115-107-6.

Gaines Post (2015). Studies in Medieval Legal Thought: Public Law and the State 1100-1322. Chapter IX, The Roman Law and the Inalienability Clause in the English Coronation Oath: Princeton University Press. pp. 415–. ISBN 978-1-4008-7998-4

Leopold George Wickham Legg (1901). English Coronation Records. A. Constable & Company.
https://archive.org/details/cu31924081293627


History of Political Thought. Volume 17. Imprint Academic. 1996. p. 163
A very old usage of the term corona is the phrase placita de corona dating from Anglo-Saxon times that assigned punishment of certain serious crimes to the king, linking his royal dignity with his responsibility to give justice to his subjects. The English coronation oath emphasized the royal obligation to give justice. The king could intervene in lesser courts, public or seignorial, to amend a defectus justitiae or an injustum judicium. King John recognized the significance of a royal monopoly over pleas of the crown, and he took special care to assert this crown right in his recently acquired lordship of Ireland.