In addition to the King's Council, the consultative governing of the country also depended on other intermittent and permanent institutions, such as the States General, the Parlements and the Provincial Estates. The Parliament of Paris – as indeed all of the sovereign courts of the realm – was itself born out of the King's Council: originally a consultative body of the "Curia Regis", later (in the thirteenth century) endowed with judicial functions, the Parliament was separated from the King's Council in 1254.