These courts were itinerant, as they followed the army, lacked territorial jurisdiction and were composed of the marshal's particular provost and . A second court that existed by 1321 was in the personal jurisdiction of the Constable and oversaw cases involving a point of honor () or quarrels between soldiers regarding reputation, personal cases of the king's and the conduct and service of the provosts of the marshals and their archers. The jurisdictions of the Constable and the marshals were itemized in the Ordinance of 1356.
