A bit later in history - during the reign of Henry III (who was only 9 when he became king) Geoffrey of Montfort invented parliament. The way the sotry goes, Geoffrey, who as any good English Noble of those days, spoke Norman (which is a sorta Britishized version of French- only not really) looked around and thought to himself - "Sacre Bleu! Le Roi est neuf, comment passant? Allez parlez au Mont!" - which, roughly translated means - "holy sh*t! Leroy (his nickname for Henry III) has gotta lotta nerve! (Because - face it, how many adults want to be bossed around by a nine-year-old?) Let's go talk about it on that hill!" So he gathered a bunch of his cronies, lickspittles and other important people and went up on a hill where they couldn't be overheard and decided what they were gonna do.

these little talks became a regular thing - and the "Parlez au Mont" became known (because no one could spell in those days - mostly due to the fact that the Meriam-Webster Dictionary hadn't been published yet) as "parliament"