Council of Brabant

Council of Brabant
Conseil de Brabant / Raad van Brabant
Palace of the Council of Brabant (1783)
(now the Belgian Federal Parliament)
Established1430
Dissolved1794
JurisdictionDuchy of Brabant
LocationBrussels

The Council of Brabant was the highest law court in the historic Duchy of Brabant. It was presided over by the chancellor of Brabant. One of its functions was to determine that new legislation was not contrary to the rights and liberties established in the Joyous Entry.

The Belgian Federal Parliament now sits in the building that was designed in the late 18th century by Gilles-Barnabé Guimard as the Palace of the Council of Brabant.