Cortes. The Cortes was the national assembly, drawn from the nobility, the clergy and the commoners, the task of which was to advise the king on legislation. (CW) Lexical Types: AdministrationParts of Speech: femininenounplural Chronicle entries in which Cortes appears: Citation: Crónica de D. Pedro, ch. 29: 89Crónica de D. Pedro, ch. 41: 50