| Keywords |
- Name: Alboin, [wurzel: alboin]
- Region: Italia, [wurzel: Itali]
- Ethnonym: Langobardi, [wurzel: langobard]
- Name: Rothari, [wurzel: Rothar*]
- Name: Ticinum (Pavia), [wurzel: ticin*]
- Keyword: gens, [wurzel: gent]
- Keyword: lex (law), [wurzel: leg]
- Keyword: palatium, [wurzel: palati]
- Keyword: provincia, [wurzel: provinci]
- Keyword: rex (king), [wurzel: reg]
- Keyword: rex gentis langobardorum, [wurzel: re* gen* langobardorum]
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| ID |
5108 |
| Text |
Edictus Rothari (643 - 643) Rothari, Rothair |
| Quotation |
Ego in dei nomine Rothari, vir excellentissimus, et septimodecimum rex gentis Langobardorum, anno deo propitiante regni mei octabo, aetatisque tricesimo octabo, indictione secunda et post adventum in provincia Italiae Langobardorum, ex quo, Alboin tunc temporis regem precedentem divina potentia, adducti sunt, anno septuagesimo sexto feliciter. Dato Ticino in palatio. Ob hoc considerantes dei omnipotentis gratiam, necessarium esse prospeximus presentem corregere legem, quae priores omnes renovet et emendet, et quod deest adiciat, et quod superfluum est abscidat... |
| Translation |
In the name of the Lord, I, the most noble Rothair, seventeenth king of the Lombards, [issue this lawbook] with the aid of God in the eighth year of my reign and in the thirty-eighth year of my life, in the second indiction in the seventy-sixth year after the happy arrival of the Lombards in the land of Italy, led there by divine providence in the time of King Alboin, my predecessor. Issued from the palace at Pavia. Therefore, trusting in the mercy of Almighty God, we have perceived it necessary to improve and to reaffirm the present law, amending all earlier laws by adding that which is lacking and eliminating that which is superfluous... (K. Fischer-Drew, trans., The Lombard Laws (1973), p. 39) |
| Summary |
The prologue to the Edictus Rothari begins by identifying Rothari as the seventeenth king of the Lombards and continues by positioning that date in relation to the history of the Lombards and their arrival into Italy under Rothari's predecessor, King Alboin in 530 CE. The first part of the prologue concludes, with a statement that the laws were issued from the palace in Ticinum [Pavia].
The second part of the prologue thenrefers to the process by which the present law issued in the edictus was amended and updated from the older law (that is unwritten customs) of the Lombards. |
| Quotation source |
MGH, LL 4, 1868 (F. Bluhme), pp. 1-2 |
| Temporal Coverage |
530 - 643 |
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| Spatial Coverage Objects |
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| Comment |
The Edictus Rothari forms part of the collected Edictus Langobardorum [Text, ID:984]. |
